Last week we showed how Delino DeShields’s face exploded when struck by an errant baseball. This week, we show how NBA commissioner Adam Silver’s ears exploded when exposed to an audiotape of Clippers owner Donald Sterling.
60 Minutes did a great piece about a 104-year-old Brit who saved 669 children during World War II. Nicholas Winton, above right, was a stockbroker. Hard to believe that, once upon a time, someone in that now-reviled profession could act heroically. Speaking of stockbrokers …
“It’s the reputational damage that this administration has done to Wall Street. Wall Street is considered … like the devil, to most people’s mind. One of the reasons why is the constant attacks.” – Fox correspondent Charles Gasparino, above, explaining Wall Street’s resentment toward Obama.
Oh, boo hoo. If only the rest of us would stop being so mean to the bankers and stock analysts on Wall Street, those selfless patriots who had nothing to do with the financial collapse. Perhaps if we apologized they would eventually forgive us and things could go back to normal.
“Drive yourself to Oberrickenbach …. Man, can you imagine being in a spelling bee in Germany?” – cowboy Cord or cowboy Jet – I can’t tell them apart – struggling with spelling and geography in Switzerland on The Amazing Race.
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George Clooney got engaged to Amal Alamuddin, below left. I had no idea that the late, great Hugh Griffith, below right, had a daughter.
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