Honorable Mention today goes to the Spurs’ Gregg Popovich and the Heat’s Meyers Leonard for having the sack to stand during the goddamn national anthem.  They are not eligible for full enrollment in The Honor Roll since they chose to wear BLM™ shirts, meaning they are either frauds or dupes.  But props for standing for the anthem.  Gregg and Meyers are allowed in the bar where I and the other Honor Roll inductees are drinking, but Gregg and Meyers will be paying for everybody’s drinks.
There are so many people and organizations that deserve The Finger these days, I can’t possibly keep up.  But I think the NBA has really cried out for a big, unlubricated Finger.  The last time an large athletic organization embraced such egregiously political and overtly fascist messaging was probably Hitler’s Olympics in 1936.  That was a fun time for the whole family…dupes from all over the world waving swastikas and giving Uncle Adolf a nice Nazi salute to show their support of the previously oppressed people of Germany (“Well, you know, they did really take it in the leiderhosen after WW1”).  Most of those people seen waving swastika flags would later expect people to believe that they hadn’t been aware of Hitler’s antisemitic, genocidal agenda, that nobody knew.  Which is patently horseshit.  The number of countries who sidelined their Jewish athletes because their hosts had asked them to and they didn’t want to risk offending their hosts is shameful.  And down the road, when people and organizations are trying to distance themselves from BLM™, they will make the same claims of ignorance, and those claims will be dismissed out of hand.
We’ll know you knew…because we were the ones who told you.

N.P.: “She Talks to Angels” – Black Needle Noise, John Fryer, AnjelA Piccard