Archive for May, 2007

Boxing is a waste of time

Monday, May 7th, 2007
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After paying $59.95+tax to watch the Mayweather-De La Hoya fight this past weekend, I realized that I had been had.

“Oh, I say and I say it again, ya been had! Ya been took! Ya been hoodwinked! Bamboozled! Led astray! Run amok!”- Malcolm X (1992)

It was a good clean fight, but who pays all that money for just a good clean fight? No biting, no blood, no police, nothing. If I wanted to see all that is good in the sport I will watch (more…)

Cut your grass!

Monday, May 7th, 2007

36x-tall-grass-2-blades-mow.jpgWhy is it that everybody on the block sees the value in cutting their grass except for that one neighbor who happens to live next door to me? I am out there weekly keeping mine cut, trimmed and watered, but my neighbor obviously can’t see it and feels no pressure to cut his.

I live in a black middle class community where people (more…)