For crying out loud...

[tamada]

I was in Houston when they were awarded a MLS (major league soccer) franchise and their first pick team name was "Houston 1836" to reflect the year in which the city and state was founded.

The early-years wokeists reckoned the large, local Hispanic community would be incensed, as Houston and Texas had fought a bloody war of independence from Mexico. I was there in 2005, and they weren't but they were looking forward to having "proper football" on their doorstep. Thus, they were hastily renamed "Houston Dynamo" with the lame excuse that this was a reference to famous European football team names. Nobody was too upset that the likes of Dinamo Zagreb, KF Dinamo Tirana, FC Dynamo Kyiv, FC Dinamo București, Dynamo Moscow, SV Dynamo and most all of these "great" team names were from the satellites of the former Soviet bloc with all of the shady Cold War inferences that came with it. For example, there was never any Dynamo Lisbon or Tottenham Dynamo.

https://grantland.com/the-triangle/the- ... team-name/

It's a pity that Dallas had already garnered the right to being called 'cowboys' in another sporting genre.

[samster]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g2gr7994lo

Article about issues at Newark airport. Not very interesting until you read "multiple employees going on trauma leave". Poor souls.

I've read so many posts on here about nasty fat cat employers and the poor working man. Seems to me that those posters have never run a business in the 21st century. This is the reality of the workforce nowadays. If you can't hack it in air control, go run a poodle parlour.

[tamada]

Pushing Tin. Great movie.