C'mon Dave, say more funny leftist things about the World Cup. They're a hoot.

Odd how conservatives side with the politics of exclusion and repression, and then pretend that their institutionalized greed is "non-political" and somehow the "status-quo".

The law is racist because it singles out people for police questioning based on race and language. I do wonder how poster Bruce Jacobs expects DZ to write about a racially and culturally exclussionary law without discussing race or culture.

No one in Arizona is getting worked up over tracking down illegal immigrants from Russia or the Ukaraine that might be working working in strip clubs. But the idea of Hispanics coming to the U.S. to work hard and long hours is so frightening that Arizona has to ignore the Constitution and the equal protection clause of 14th Ammendment?

And Tony LaRosa, fool that he is, is going to champion a law that makes a suspect of his star player and baseball's MVP, Albert Pujols.

Pujols needs to become the Most Vocal Player and speak out against a law that all but makes him and his family born criminals. And we, as U.S. citizens, should feel outraged and ashamed.

News flash gang: Comrade Zirin's favorite nationalist leftist, Diego Maradona, made some homophobic remarks at a press conference, complete with a "limp wrist."

My P.C. picks have been turned upside down. I now must dump Argentina, and go with either The Netherlands or Brazil.

I look forward to the denounciation from Comrade Zirin himself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jicVtHRUu5A

http://www.tnr.com/blog/world-cup/76009/diego-maradona-not-gay


'No, no, I like women, I like women. I like women, I am going out with Veronica, she's 31 years old, she's blond, she's very pretty. No, no, no. Let's not start because otherwise people will think that . . I have a limp wrist and it's not like that man."

that Tony LaRussa is half Spanish and grew up speaking that language. Oh, yes, I get it. He's full of self-hatred!

One of the trolls above who asked the question: "Hey Zirin is there any issue--just 1 that you dont see thru the prism of race?" must be oblivious to the hard-boiled fact that this country was founded in genocide fueled by racial hatred, nurtured through slavery fueled by racial hatred, and continues to this day with systemic racism (not to mention overt racism) that runs through every level of this society like a main circuit cable.

You can't view America without seeing it through the prism of race. The idea that we're living through a post-racial period in American history is folly.

Do you honestly think that race still doesn't matter in western society, oh wait your probably a Bill Oreilly fan who doesn't see race.

Do you honestly think that race still doesn't matter in western society, oh wait your probably a Bill Oreilly fan who doesn't see race.

White conservatives said that race shouldn't matter, and that they don't see color, they only judge people by their behavior, etc., until Bill Cosby came out and thrashed modern day ghetto culture and specifically called out blacks. Then suddenly white conservatives were praising Cosby and saying blacks should listen to him. Suddenly, white conservatives saw color again.

I've always had, what I thought was an irrational, loathing of La Russa, ever since the 'Bash Brother' days in Oakland.

This just gives it rationality.

I am a long time supporter of your writing and generally your politics dave, but I have to admit this is a frustrating issue for me. The right scapegoats poor mexicans as if they had politacal or social control over anything and then whips up race based resentment to obscure the real crimes being commited against the working class on both sides of the issue. Standard divide and conqueor techniques from elites. I get what is happening. So we need to be pushing for real reform. Reform comes from the changing of lifestyles and consumption patterns, it requires real systemic change and even, god forbid, sacrafice. Protesting this law does nothing as long as we refuse to look at how our own actions support globalization style labor and enviormental laws that hurt individuals world wide. End the new slavery, produce resources locally, change energy law and policy. Make real systemic change . Stop going after one law and start making a real movement. F*$k arizonas small time racism and start protesting and boycotting in ways that really make a difference. If arizonas law changed today or hed never happened it would change nothing about injustice, and slavery. Lets start fighting the real fight. Forget corporate sports and start and encouraging people to play, and enjoy for them selves, as part of a whole authentic lifestyle of less consumption and more living. That is the only way to fight these a$*hol#s with real community, and togetherness. Sports can be a huge part of that but only if we own it.

I am a generally a supporter of both your writing and your politics Dave, but on this issue I am at a loss. Global elites use racism and working class fears over job security to whip up resentment against a certain class of people. Standard divide and conqueor techniques that have allowed the greedy few to control, manipulate, and render helpless the masses they use to reap there mega profits. I get it. But why use your forum to preach against this one law, instead of trying to get at root issues of corporate style globilization and economic policy that impovrish and destroy whole continents, forcing migration just to survive. Lets use sport to build community, make connections and end cultural misconceptions. local non-corparate sport can be a huge tool, so lets boycott the whole thing not one law. Lets make some real sacrafice for a better more authentic life, F$@k all these owners.
f!$k these elitist, super rich, public fund leaching bastards. Lets play, lets live, letscompete for are own reasons, on our own terms. Lets make a real movement for change. Arizona is irelavent.

It's 'coherently'...

I would suggest that you try some basic grammar too, but let's not tax your tiny right-wing brain too much at this stage.

Stick to NASCAR Brucey darling - a thousand left turns is probably just about all your brain can handle.

Leave the 'difficult' stuff like spelling and grammar to us whiny liberals.

"Man you liberals spew some of the most vile garbage and you cant even do it coherantly"

Beyond parody Bruce - thanks!

Maybe Bruce can have a good "conservative" time - bend over and take it in the poop cute while hoping someday you'll get to turn around . . . Of course, Rush would have to get Bruce's head out of the way first.

Having been born in Brooklyn in 1951, I grew up thinking Walter O'Malley was the worst thing to ever happen to baseball.I now believe he was second worst. LaRussa may not be third, but he is in the running. SMASH SB-1070!!

As a native St. Louis - the euphemistically reference Northside, to be exact - I've had a heightened interest in LaRussa. Since his arrival in StL, there's always been a sense that Ol' Tony wasn't too fond of us "darker folks." Still, trepidation & doubt don't equate to hard cold evidence... I'll tell you what, though, Ron Gant's proclamation that LaRussa was a racist and Ozzie Smith's de facto ban from the organization make LaRussa's support of SB 1070 seem like business as usual... The purging of black players from the organization since Ol' Tony's arrival doesn't seem so coincidental, either.

I saw your comment & decided to read that SB-1070 on line. Having read it, I've decided it's not as bad as I first thought...IT'S WORSE!! Bruce, the penalities won't be meted out to corporations that exploit undocumented workers, they'll actually be used to victimize people who try to help them. Remember, if they come for the undocumented in the morning, they'll soon come for YOU...perhaps not that very night, but they will come!