• Bottle Bill • Weakside Rush Bottle Bill Millions of dollars are being collected from Hawai‘i bottlers for a forthcoming “bottle bill” that will require a deposit on many beverage containers. The concept behind the bill – keeping our roadsides
• Bottle Bill
• Weakside Rush
Bottle Bill
Millions of dollars are being collected from Hawai‘i bottlers for a forthcoming “bottle bill” that will require a deposit on many beverage containers. The concept behind the bill – keeping our roadsides and other areas clean – is a good one. However, the budget and cost to the taxpayers needs to carefully monitored once this bill is implemented in 2005 to make sure the cost isn’t out of proportion to the good the bill does.
Weakside Rush
Rush Limbaugh likes to say he has “talent on loan from God.” Apparently, his racial attitudes are on loan from Trent Lott.
The former Rusty Limbaugh of Cape Girardeau, Mo., whose preach-to-the-choir conservative talk show is heard daily on 650 radio stations worldwide, is moonlighting this year as a football analyst for ESPN. On Sunday, he said he was not surprised that Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb, an African-American, was struggling this year: “I think what we’ve had here is a little social concern in the NFL. The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well. There is a little hope invested in McNabb, and he got a lot of credit for the performance of this team that he didn’t deserve. The defense carried this team.”
Mr. McNabb was surprised. “It’s sad you’ve got to go to skin color,” he told the Philadelphia Daily News. “I thought we were through with that whole deal.”
Actually, most people were through with that whole deal in 1987, when Doug Williams of the Washington Redskins was named MVP of the Super Bowl.
Before the game, a reporter had put the whole controversy in a nutshell by asking Mr. Williams, “How
long have you been a black quarterback?”
The media haven’t had to invest hope in black quarterbacks for many years. The talents of men like Donovan McNabb, Steve McNair of the Tennessee Titans, Daunte Culpepper of the Minnesota Vikings and Michael Vick of the Atlanta Falcons speak for themselves. Mr. Limbaugh’s presence has boosted the ratings for ESPN’s Sunday pregame show, which normally contents itself with nothing more controversial than the weakside blitz. Too bad he brings the same keen level of insight into football that he does to politics.
St. Louis Post-Patch
