– In my opinion, Ben Roethlisberger should be benched until all his legal issues are sorted out. When Andrea McNulty, the first accuser, went public, I was willing to give Ben the benefit of the doubt. McNulty, after all, seemed less than stable mentally. But this second woman seems perfectly normal, and has done everything “by the book”. So, in my humble opinion, it’s time for Dennis Dixon to start until Ben decides to be a decent human being.
– Speaking of “decent human beings”, Troy Polamalu is the anti-Ben.
– From Texts From Last Night: “(813): So let me get this straight. You would sleep with an uncircumcised guy whose name you didn’t know, but you won’t try the new shrimp taco from taco bell?”
– During World War II, Red Cross regulations required the Germans to allow “games and pastimes” to be passed to Allied POWs in prison camps. The British convinced Waddington, Ltd. (the UK licensee of the Monopoly board game) to create some “special editions” that had “low-profile compasses, files, and maps” embedded into the game board. POWs could then tear open the board, remove the items and escape. Waddington, Ltd. was chosen by the British government because the company had perfected a method to print on silk, and silk escape maps don’t wear out, turn to mush in the rain, can be compressed into a tiny size, and (most importantly) don’t make any noise when opening or folding. The company, who made the games in a secret room at company headquarters using only a handful of highly-trusted employees, also included German, Italian and Austrian money mixed in with the game’s play money. Although some have estimated that a third of all POW escapees used the “Monopoly kits”, the exact number is actually unknown. Read more here.
– Joseph Casias, a Michigan man, was fired from his job at Walmart… for using medical marijuana. The company did this despite the fact that medical marijuana is legal in Michigan and that Casias had a valid prescription for the drug. Way to treat a five year employee with cancer and a brain tumor, Walmart!