Solomon: Texans’ Smith hardly the first player to swing a helmet at a foe He swung. He missed. He’ll sit out a regular season game. End of story, let’s move on. OK, there is an appeal – one that I am almost certain helmet-wielding Antonio Smith will lose – but otherwise there is little else to see here. Discussion of his or Richie Incognito’s relative dirtiness is already boring. In today’s column, I touched on the thought that now Smith must be careful for the rest ...
Aug. 21, 2013 - Houston Chronicle
Johnny Weir in Los Angeles Times (blog) Weir said during an earlier controversy about his fur-wearing that "I totally get the dirtiness of the fur industry and how terrible it is to animals. But it's not something that's the No. 1 priority in my life ...... There are humans dying every...
George Orwell in renewamerica.us Orwell said, "If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?"
Pauline Kael in Ottawa Citizen As the late critic Pauline Kael wrote of Dirty Harry (1971), "The dirtiness on Harry is the moral stain of recognition that evil must be dealt with. ......"