Bmaz is a rather large saguaro cactus in the Southwestern Sonoran desert. A lover of the Constitution, law, family, sports, food and spirits. As you might imagine, a bit prickly occasionally. Bmaz has attended all three state universities in Arizona, with both undergraduate and graduate degrees from Arizona State University, and with significant post-graduate work (in physics and organic chemistry, go figure) at both the University of Colorado in Boulder and the University of Arizona. Married, with both a lovely child and a giant Sasquatch dog. Bmaz has been a participant on the internet since the early 2000’s, including active participation in the precursor to Emptywheel, The Next Hurrah. Formally joined the Emptywheel blog as an original contributing member at its founding in 2007. Bmaz grew up around politics, education, sports and, most significantly, cars; notably around Formula One racing and Concours de Elegance automobile restoration and showing. Currently lives in the Cactus Patch with his lovely wife and beast of a dog, and practices both criminal and civil trial law.
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Week 11 of the National Goodell League is upon us. Once again there was little of interest in the student athlete part of football, but I will summarize briefly. In the NCAA, Houston unceremoniously dumped the once darling of big conference outsiders, Louisville, and did so before Saturday. So, that is over. The always mighty […]
Once upon a time, Mitt Romney exiled his dog, Seamus, to the roof of the family station wagon. Now Trump has Mittens tied to the roof like a dog.
Well here we are in the fifth day past the stunning election. That maybe was not that stunning at all. I don’t necessarily have anything to add at this point. Success has many fathers, and failure is an orphan. Right now there are a lot of fathers jockeying for power around Trump, and a hell […]
Will Rogers very famously said: “I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.” That was made sometime in the 1930’s I think, but it is enduringly true. So, where will the Democratic party go now that they have had their ass handed to them by Trump? Who will lead […]
The Cubs winning the World Series in the middle of the 2016 election shitstorm is a welcome thing. We are all long suffering Cubs fans at this point, waiting for the insane drought to be over.
Arighty then, this is going to be an abbreviated Trash Talk. I saw the Twitters yesterday, but spent the great majority of the day from early morning here, to mid afternoon, by which time I had some heat stroke and was paralyzed. Sorry about that! So, for today’s Sunday games, the abbreviated topic will be […]
History shows again and again How nature points out the folly of men. Yeah, truer words never spoken. Even if in relation to Godzilla. And you can apply that to the relentlessly ballyhooed “autonomous driving automobiles”. Seriously, this stuff is Henny Youngman type of slapsick comedy. It ain’t happening. Okay, I am cribbing from Atrios, […]
Been in a rather heated matter all week, and Marcy has been traveling. Bottom line is, blogging has been thin here. Sorry about that. And this post will be only a band-aid, and I apologize about that as well. Problem is, while I was off heatedly litigating things, a friend eventually, who started out as […]
It may not be the biggest game of week five, but all eyes will be on Tom Brady and his return from the idiotic, dishonest and petulant suspension manufactured by Roger Goodell and the NFL. That is going to be the story. What can we expect? I think I’ll bet on Brady being Brady, especially […]
The Friday night news of the Trump extreme misogyny video was really not shocking. It is who Trump is. But that is also who todays GOP is, and they can’t walk back from their Trumpism. And it’s too late for them to change the ballot.