Do It (That Is How This Works)

Politics is like boxing: wherever the head goes,...the body follows.

 

Back To Normal: Conor McGregor Got His Ass Whooped (By A White Guy)

It's bizarre, a blog called "The Macho Response" doesn't cover more UFC, or sports and violence in general, just as a thing, but - call somebody "Con Artist McLoser" - and now, you're in my wheelhouse.  

Even I'm baffled by it.

 

Ali's Name Was "Coward" When It Mattered

Ever since I discovered Muhammad Ali betrayed Malcolm X - the man who gave him his identity - so Elijah Muhammad could impregnate little girls, Ali's displays of pride don't impress anymore. He's just another cultist, who lorded his power over - not only an innocent man - but, probably, the best black man America's ever produced. And he did it just because he could. 

I no longer see anything, in Muhammad Ali, to be proud of.

 

The White Internet Troll Finally Meets His Black Offline

"Don't you EVER call me a nigger again!"

 

All Anyone Can Do Against Ali (Is Tarnish Themselves)

Before Liston’s championship fight when he won the title against Floyd Patterson, President Kennedy took the time to call Patterson and express that it would not be in “the negroes best interest” if Liston won. As one writer noted dryly, “The fight definitely was not in Patterson’s best interest.” Liston destroyed Patterson, setting the stage for his fight against Clay.

The great James Baldwin was sent to cover Liston before the fight. He wrote, in a brilliant essay, “[Liston] is far from stupid; if not, in fact, stupid at all. And while there is a great deal of violence in him, I sensed no cruelty at all. On the contrary, he reminded me of big, black men I have know who acquired the reputation of being tough in order to conceal the fact that they weren’t hard. Anyone who cared to could turn them into taffy.” Baldwin also pointed that Liston had moved seamlessly in the white-sports media from villain to hero, as they were counting on him to shut the mouth of the young Olympic gold medalist they called “the Lousiville Lip” and “Gaseous Cassius.”

The Gods Of Entertainment Even Backed Out Of This

The man behind the George Zimmerman-DMX fight announced that he has cancelled the bout.

Racism Vs. Bipolar Disorder: Which Sickness Will Win?

"I Will Gladly Beat the Shit Out of Him"

 

BTW - don't forget I devoted a lyric about DMX's driving misfortunes in my 2002 song "I Am (The Crack Emcee)": 

 I think I'm the only one who has, and it's brought me a lot of joy,…

 

YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES! YES!

I know - it's got to be some crazy kind of WWF stuff - but still, that's doing it right:

George Zimmerman Boxing Match Set!!!

HE WILL FIGHT DMX

 Now compare the degree of knowledge you've been receiving "up in here," TMR readers, with our friends at Legal Insurrection:

I’m so old, I don’t even know who DMX is,…

The leaders of conservatism, or the blogosphere - which is even worse. There is no one reading this, if they've been with TMR a while, who can or will say that.

 Because TMR adds actual value to your lives,…

George Zimmerman To Box Black Person Ready To Kill

Damn - not only are we watching the end of the political Right, but blacks get to see Trayvon's killer destroyed, too - cool:

Now's your chance to kick George Zimmerman's ass with zero legal repercussions -- he just agreed to a celebrity boxing match ... and he says he'll fight ANYONE ... even black people. 

 It's been nice knowing you, George,…

 

There's A Reason (Brains Will Beat Brawn Every Time)

"Now, in his explosive autobiography, Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth, published today, he has revealed that he spent the weeks leading up to that sentencing, traveling round the country ‘romancing’ his various girlfriends. 

And where legal measures had let him down he had turned to ‘divine intervention,’ to bring him a light sentence. He visited a, ‘hoodoo woman’ who said she would cast a spell to keep him out of jail if he put five hundred dollar bills in a jar, urinated in it and kept it under his bed for three days. 

He sought out a voodoo priest who turned out to be a fraud, ‘I knew that guy had nothing,’ he recalls.

And he followed the instructions of a Santeria priest – going to the courthouse one night with a pigeon and an egg which he dropped on the ground as the bird was release and he yelled. ‘We’re free!’

He almost believed it would work. Because he felt invincible. ‘In my mind,’ he says, ‘I had no peers. I was the youngest heavyweight champion in the history of boxing. I was a titan, the reincarnation of Alexander the Great.’

He was sentenced to six years and served three."

Of Mice And Men And Fights To Win (A Long Time Ago)

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Not exactly the world's biggest Rachel Maddow fan. But right now I'm listening to everybody, trying to gauge where we are, and the Left seems to be seeing what I do - madness has gripped the Right and they don't recognize it. Conservatives seem pretty proud to be rubbing shoulders with racial resentments, and religious fruitcakes, while losing one battle after another, each to be worn like a badge of honor. 

Just a big ol' pile of nothin'.

You know, this blog used to catch shit for it's name - specifically the word "macho" - because, at the time, any guy willing to stick his chest out and say "no more" to the NewAge feminist bullshit was seen, not as forward thinking, but pretty pig-headed. But I stuck with it anyway, since I grew up around some of the baddest motherfuckers the Earth has ever seen, and Pastel World's caricature of their lives couldn't put a dent in my mine.

I bring it up because this fake "macho" posturing, among folks who couldn't burst a grape in a fruit fight, can be pretty damaging. You know what I mean - the guys who got picked on in school, trying to get revenge as adults, etc.. They're just assholes who need their asses kicked - again - but, of course, they're all armed to the teeth now (OMG - black teens!) so, for the most part, we're stuck watching them destroy themselves. And destroy themselves they will. Because they never knew how to fight in the first place. It's all talk, just as before.

I've got all kinds of battles in my background. I can still remember getting knocked down - in elementary school - and desperately trying to protect my head as a gang kicked me in every place possible. I fought 5 guys one time, totally stick-and-move, until someone came up behind me with a paint roller (like you'd use to cover walls) and planted it firmly in the back of my neck. There was a 300 lb. white guy in the Navy, after I was already injured, who used his girth to corner me before beating me into submission. And the Mexican who beat me silly, boxing, demonstrating the difference between "the sweet science" and street fighting.

But you know what never happened? No one ever lost respect for me for losing. The leader of that elementary school gang? Somehow, he and I ended up serving together for a while in the Navy, and to my surprise he'd threaten anyone who so much as looked at me cross-eyed, like he was repaying a debt. Those 5 guys (with the paint roller) unfortunately they're all dead now, but they became my good friends, too. The 300 lb. white guy, once he realized I was fighting him injured, actually picked me up and carried me to medical care. And that Mexican boxer eventually taught me everything I was doing wrong, happily, because - like all the others - he saw that what I lacked in skills, I made up with heart.

Nothing like that just happened with Ted Cruz & Co.. Instead of actually fighting, Cruz pushed Boehner towards Obama to say "Knock this chip off my shoulder," and when the president did, they cried he wouldn't let them win. Big whoop. Big Man. Just pathetic. The only one we can look up to is Boehner because he's always been the only one with anything on the line. The rest are just instigators, scattering now to brag about how they put Obama on the spot, when no such thing happened. They just lost, and the Republican Party paid the price for it.

Doesn't matter what Cruz says - or what he thinks of himself:

To my eyes, there was absolutely no honor in any of it,...

Real White Guys: Not Enough Left To Change Anything

I think Branch Rickey was the last white guy who thought like this:

  “The thing I wanted to do was to not make him appear as just an angry black man. There are things that Chalky experienced that I have no understanding of. I don't know what it's like to see my father hang from a tree, or to be illiterate in America. I don't know what that feels like. So I wanted to bring dignity to him, in spite of all his flaws, and I wanted people to understand why he does the things that he does. And last but not least, I wanted to pay homage to my ancestors, to anybody who's alive today, any black men that are alive today.’”

There was that old guy who trained Mike Tyson, too, but they're pretty few and far between,...

 

Mandingo Is Dead

Ken Norton (August 9, 1943 – September 18, 2013)

Nobody Move Nobody Get Hurt: What's The Fun In That?

 

 A funny thing happened over at Lem's Comment Home this weekend:

As soon as Lemmy curiously declared he'd prefer for those angry at Meadehouse not to diss them (which forced me to bow-out, on free speech grounds, right after I'd told you guys to take a look) Ann Althouse's "second" husband, Meade, showed up at Lem's in a mood to fight, taking on all comers.

Now, Lem's a nice guy - a sweetheart even - so this was seen by the Comment Home community as Meade, maybe a little tipsy, showing up to take a shit on his protege's new property.

So that gave me an idea:

Have you ever been at a house party, where two guys were so determined to go at it, everyone just said, "Fuck it" and moved the furniture out of the way for them?

Well, why not host online smokers, here?

Like we used to do in the Navy?

I mean, I love a good fight - watching or participating - so it's not like it's going to fuck up the ambiance or anything.

But there'd be one caveat:

This would be an actual contest - online - so there's a 1-3 point system and hard rules.

For instance, though given a wide berth, participants would have to deal with FACTS when presented - lying, or a denial of something everybody's seen happen, that could easily be proven by, say, looking at Google (or Meadehouse's old comments threads) will lose points, BIG TIME.

This wouldn't be like the Althouse, where a commenter could be right and Ann and Meade would just stand by and let the group pummel them into leaving, or submission to the preferred lie.

No - at TMR you'll have to come correct - and, if proven wrong, accept it.

(As I wrote that last sentence, I got a voice in my head that said Meade will never accept such rules because, as I said, he and the lawyer never showed much allegiance to truth, which, in a weird way, is their online strength. Personally, I think he ought to accept a challenge just to prove that idea wrong, but that's just me.)

And there's one more thing:

Since I'm hosting - and have the biggest bug up my ass for honesty - I'm The Ref.

I think, using facts as our guide, I can be fair even to those who don't always share my outlook.

Anyway, Meade, Ann, Trooper, EBL's Cow, Pallaidian, Ritmo, Darcy, Deborah, Synova, Inga, even - everybody - what do y'all say?

Let me know and, once we have two contenders, I'll get a ring set up and hang the bunting,...

 

Stupidity In Action: Eggin' It On, Laughin', And Filmin' It

 

 If your life is lacking "something concrete" this is the way to get it,...

 

Even I Get In The Mood For Just Horsing Around

Evander Holyfield To Box Horse For Heavyweight Title
Evander Holyfield, boxing with a horse? A man caught on camera having sex with a horse? Can't you stupid people leave the little horsies alone?

Don't you know they were made to run free?