Just when you thought we might be making progress as a society, a story like this comes out... A society can be judged upon how well it treats its innocent and those in need of protection. It seems that somehow,...
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I don't approve of dog fights but then I also think that boxing is a cruel sport. Two people climb into a ring, and try to see which one can knock the other one out first. I don't get it, but lots of people clearly don't have a problem with boxing, even...
I thought I'd share this article and video with the Now Public Crowd. ABC2 News interviewed Michael Vick's grandfather today.
You can watch the RAW VIDEO of the interview here. Vick's grandfather talked about the...
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When new NOWPUBLIC contributor, former music journalist and current manager of several prominent rock bands Chris "Hot Rod" Long went to the mailbox today- little did he expect to find out that his former tiny...
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UPDATE July 30, 2007: Tony Taylor, one of Michael Vicks' co -defendants has pled guilty to dog fighting. The exact nature of the plea and if he is getting a 'plea bargain' has not been released. This is bound to...
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"Welcome to the first installment of Taking Out the Trash, a new feature where I pander to the lowest common denominator and wallow shamelessly in the seething much that is our popular culture. If we offend, give us your hands. If we fail, let me know and I'll try harder...
Michael Vick will not be indicted
in the dog fighting flap. That’s bad news for the machine that invested
so much time and money manipulating news to give the appearance that
Vick is just a low-life nigger - oops, “thug” - who has a list of
maleficent acts rivaling that...
On September 3, 2003, in a scene out of the Pablo Escobar story, IRS
agents and local authorities flooded the ground around the Bay Area
Laboratory Cooperative (BALCO) with bullet-proof vested SWAT agents and
ducked behind cars like they were being fired on by South American...
Kelli Naqi interviewed an “informer” who told her the lurid story about
Michael Vick the dog fighter and Michael Vick the dog fighting bettor.
According to the informer his dog squared off against Vick’s dog in
2000 saying:
“He’s a pit bull fighter. He’s one of...
It turns out there may be no fire. It turns out the smoke was
created by external forces hoping to create a blaze in which Michael
Vick and to a lesser degree Virginia Commonwealth Attorney Gerald F.
Poindexter became trapped.
And it turns out that patience truly is a...
I give you one of my tennis rackets. You go to the tennis courts to
play against another player. You’re playing horribly. At one point
during your match with the other player you totally freak out, smash my
racket. In the process you destroy a chair and a bench, and then...