A Recent Email From A Friend
Sent while today’s Packers/Giants game was on.
DAMN! Sorry to miss you — but let me know when you’re leaving; I may be able to catch you before you depart.
I’m in Shanghai right now watching Packers / Giants at the home of a Mergers & Acquisitions lawyer. He’s got action on the game and keeps standing up and leaving the room. His teenage daughter is at the dining room table, slicing up an orange into extremely small pieces, commenting only when ads come on for Napoleon Dynamite (disapproves) or New Girl (approves). It’s cold and rainy and it smells like dog and oatmeal. John Kuhn has just lost the first fumble of his career.
We may be on some kind of delay.
George Marshall's Racist Redskins
Larry Brown, who barely made it on the squad.
Michael Tomasky concludes:
‘The team and its fans still often point to a 2004 survey by the Annenberg Center, which found that by a margin of nine to one, American Indians took no offense at the name Redskins.2 They have bigger problems to worry about. I admit to a mild curiosity about whether they’d feel differently if they knew the name was dreamed up by the sport’s most overtly racist figure, who even in his will (he died in 1969) stipulated that the Redskins Foundation that was to be created with most of his estate not direct a single dollar toward “any purpose which supports or employs the principle of racial integration in any form.”’
