OBL killed and the Academy goes soft--Richie Meade "resigns"--Gladchuk is an *******

DISCLAIMER:  This has nothing to do with Africa or the Pentagon, but if there's one thing I will deviate for in this blog, it's Navy Lacrosse.  While I only played (and pretty poorly at that) on the Pub Club Lacrosse Team while at USNA, I have a great appreciation for the sport.  I don't think there's any sport I enjoy watching more than lacrosse.

Head Navy Lacrosse Coach Richie Meade "resigned" yesterday, but all middle fingers point to AD Gladchuk as the one who actually fired the Naval Academy fixture of the last 17 years.  It's been commonly said that the only thing wider than Meade's ox-like noulder (neck-shoulders) was his dedication and love for the Naval Academy and the midshipmen who passed through under him.  I won't pretend to have the insider knowledge to delve into the "lacrolitics" behind his firing, but some have said the Academy is going soft now that Osama Bin Laden has been eliminated.  Those people are wrong of course: the Academy has been going soft since the fall of 1997, after the last real plebe summer.  All jokes aside (but seriously, the class of 2001 did have the last Plebe Summer) Coach Meade (and his "unique" voice) will be missed.  The only upside is that his influence will continue as he remains on the USNA faculty as a tenured professor for the Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership and as a martial arts and boxing teacher (until he gets hired as a head coach elsewhere). 

I think the remarks from an exclusive FUUO interview with a former Navy Lacrosse standout (who spoke with me only on the condition of ambiguity, but then realized he meant anonymity) best sums up widespread sentiment regarding Meade's firing: "It's bullshit man.  Gladchuk is an asshole."

Pentagon Protesters of the Week the day after Osama Bin Laden was killed

NOTE:  For those who don't know,  every Monday morning the Pentagon allows only the biggest idiots best and brightest dissenters to post up on the grassy area by the Metro entrance escalators and display their signs. 

As I slouched my way up the Pentagon escalator this past Monday morning, my slight headache was overcome by the residual electricity still coursing through my veins from the night before.  Personally, I half-expected there to be a huge throng of hippie scum protesters out to rail against the killing of OBL, something to match the fervor with which the town of DC celebrated his death. 

To tell you the truth I may have been just the slightest bit hungover 'tired' from celebrating myself the night before at Black Squirrel on 18th St (in a complete aside, Black Squirrel has the best juiciest, most perfectly cooked hamburger that I have had in DC) with a group of about 8 veterans.  It was a memorable night during which we didn't pay for a drink all night as the other patrons in the bar wouldn't allow it.  Periodically we would raise our shot glass and remember someone who had made the ultimate sacrifice for our country, saying his or her name aloud; I said the name of Ronnie Winchester.   

Needless to say, as I stepped off the escalator, there was no throng of frenzied lunatics.  In fact, technically there were just two of them.  Here's why I say technically:

One was older gramma with close-cropped salt and pepper hair that probably drove a Prius with the entire back bumper filled with stickers.   She had a thousand yard xanax stare and a fixed robotic smile.  I am not sure she even knew where she was.  She held a rainbow flag with the word "peace" sewn to it.  

Then there was the other one.  This guy is a regular and an abosolute loon .  He was in his sixties and looked like he'd see 50 one Grateful Dead concert too many.  He wore an ill-fitting raggedy bright blue hobo cap and was holding the old and weathered "Christians dump the Jews..." sign.

I just shook my head, half-chuckling to myself and checked my facebook page as I walked into for another day in the PGON.




http://fuuo.blogspot.com/2010/09/protester-of-week-christians-dump-jews.html

President Obama embraces Lady Gaga's "poker face"

The President has a great poker face...check him out during the Bin Laden jokes. He just laughs like its business as usual. At this point he knew exactly where OBL was and that OBL was on short final to get Navy Seal'd.

In other news Greg McPartlin is featured in TMZ for the rager he threw at McP's Sunday night...and he's getting interviewed on Howard Stern today. Greg is an american hero and threw a rager of a party to celebrate my wife and I's marriage at McP's. If you are ever in Coronado, stop by there for a drink.