Saturday, April 08, 2006
duke lax + slate = dumb
this man should be ashamed of himself.
http://www.slate.com/id/2139536/?nav=tap3
We spend a lot of time here dumping of slate, but this has crossed from dumb into funny, so I thought I'd share. Dave Jamieson's cultural characterization of lacrosse players is based on a single incident of high school heckling and an innacurate allusion to "American Pie." He reasons that Steve Stifler personifies lacrosse players. Now this is stupid and journalistically reckless in its own right, but Jamieson has also applied his lens far too narrowly. If we exist in his world where American Pie is a reasonable reflection of reality, then we must accept that Steven "Oz" Ostreicher, by all accounts a better player than Stifler as well as a charming and sensitive singer and lover, is also representative of lacrosse players. Dave, even within your false, narrow construct, your characterization falls flat.
I will ignore the rest of your purely speculative characterizations about lacrosse, career, mode of transport, and locality. They do not even warrant deconstruction.
now that's occupatio.
http://www.slate.com/id/2139536/?nav=tap3
We spend a lot of time here dumping of slate, but this has crossed from dumb into funny, so I thought I'd share. Dave Jamieson's cultural characterization of lacrosse players is based on a single incident of high school heckling and an innacurate allusion to "American Pie." He reasons that Steve Stifler personifies lacrosse players. Now this is stupid and journalistically reckless in its own right, but Jamieson has also applied his lens far too narrowly. If we exist in his world where American Pie is a reasonable reflection of reality, then we must accept that Steven "Oz" Ostreicher, by all accounts a better player than Stifler as well as a charming and sensitive singer and lover, is also representative of lacrosse players. Dave, even within your false, narrow construct, your characterization falls flat.
I will ignore the rest of your purely speculative characterizations about lacrosse, career, mode of transport, and locality. They do not even warrant deconstruction.
now that's occupatio.
# posted by 8yearoldsdude @ 2:19 PM 
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his disdain for (and perhaps jealousy of?) lax players trivializes the issue at hand. His "humorous" take on this is dangerous journalism indeed!
This reminds me of those papers I used to write in middle school where I would come up with a funny title and struggle to justify it with germane subject matter.
But of course, none of those papers vilified lacrosse players.
But of course, none of those papers vilified lacrosse players.
# posted by 
: 4:48 PM
: 4:48 PM
This is shameful. And I thought I harbored a deep-seeded dislike of helmet athletes. On the plus side, though, it has a link to the Ryan McFadyen search warrant. "Piece of paper - in vehicle suckie suckie $5.00"
Those poor baseball players. (http://www.newsobserver.com/1185/story/426963.html) My heart bleeds. No wonder they take steroids. It's the only way they can keep those mean old lacrosse players from stuffing them in lockers and smashing their glasses.
Shut up, Dave Jamieson! You may not be wrong, but you're still talking out of spite. It's kinda like if Slate had me write about Patrick Hruby. Shut up, Slate, just in general! And shut up, Washington Post! You might want to keep an eye on what you put your money behind and your name on. Because this suckfest of a subsidiary ain't helping you any more than Tom Boswell's relentless cooing over that Mickey Mouse franchise in RFK.
Shut up, Dave Jamieson! You may not be wrong, but you're still talking out of spite. It's kinda like if Slate had me write about Patrick Hruby. Shut up, Slate, just in general! And shut up, Washington Post! You might want to keep an eye on what you put your money behind and your name on. Because this suckfest of a subsidiary ain't helping you any more than Tom Boswell's relentless cooing over that Mickey Mouse franchise in RFK.
Tom Boswell is the man!
I don't know if you heard the recent update, but apparently all 46 DNA samples have come back from the state crime lab, and they're all negative. In the words of the prosecutor in charge "there was no rape or sexual assault in this case. I think this was a false accusation make to attack the boys and divide the community."
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I don't know if you heard the recent update, but apparently all 46 DNA samples have come back from the state crime lab, and they're all negative. In the words of the prosecutor in charge "there was no rape or sexual assault in this case. I think this was a false accusation make to attack the boys and divide the community."
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