As someone who’s been singing the National Anthem at rodeo events for over 20 years, I’ll just say….
There’s a way it was intended to be sung, without your own spin. This was 💯the way! Bravo!
Green Bay Packers running back Josh Jacobs has been arrested for allegedly strangling and suffocating a woman. Which sounds bad. But it could be worse per sports media — he could have introduced President Trump at a rally.
About once or twice a year, I have to explain free speech like I’m talking to a kindergarten class.
If Jimmy Kimmel got arrested and prosecuted for what he said on his show, that’s a free speech violation.
If his employer decides to take him off the air?
That’s not.
Malcolm Jamal Warner, Ozzy Osbourne and Hulk Hogan.
Unless you were alive in the 80s, you will never understand the cultural significance of these three.
For those of us who were there, this is a sobering reality. Life is precious, and we are getting older.
Charles “Charley” J. Scalies Jr., best known for his role as Thomas “Horseface” Pakusa on HBO’s “The Wire,” died Thursday after battling Alzheimer’s disease. Scalies, 84, was a sales executive at a precision manufacturing firm and had his own consulting business before his roles in “The Wire,” “The Sopranos” and Baltimore native Barry Levinson’s “Liberty Heights,” according to the obituary posted by Moore, Snear & Ruggiero Funeral Home. Horseface is a union cargo checker in the second season of “The Wire,” which centers on Baltimore’s ports. For the role, Philadelphia-native Scalies channeled the blue-collar men he grew up around, like those in his father’s pool hall, he told the magazine. Read more: https://t.co/8wl5IowJtX
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Heartbroken to report that Charlie Scalies, Horseface on The Wire and Coach Molinaro from The Sopranos has passed away.
Charles J. Scalies, Jr.
7/19/1940 – 5/1/2025