good talk

I got a ton more Hits when my Blog was inactive than when I was doing-it.  Maybe I should cease-it entirely (you Swine stagger-about, falling-down).  I'm back at the 24 Hour SuperSport at 5035 W. Tropicana, 89103, in Las Vegas, where drug-dealing is carried-out in the open, in full-view of the management.  It's pretty-good physically, and just a mile from where I live, ha, but I could do without this other.  Kermit Washington (born Sept. 17, 1951), was just sentenced to 6 years in prison for a Charity Fraud which supposed to be sending money to children in Africa.  Kermit played 10 NBA Seasons, 6'8" and powerful, he was a valued-forward.  On Dec. 9, 1977, his team, the LA Lakers, played the Houston Rockets.  This was an era in which NBA Basketball was trying to model-itself on pro hockey, with a lot of players fighting, it was a constant (?), with SI having an article "The Enforcers", featuring players who were prominent in this, it was sort-of gloried (?)  I can remember some guy showering the esteemed Jerry Lucas with punches, Lucas afterward standing-there indignant.  Many of the players acted like Trash. During a fracas involving the Lakers and Rockets, the Rockets' All Star Forward, Rudy Tomjanovich, came rushing-in from the side to break it up, with Kermit Washington sucker-punching him, the momentum of Rudy's rushing-in and the powerful Kermit's punch, left Tomjanovich lying on the Court in a pool of blood.  Rudy almost died, he eventually made a comeback, but was never regained his previous-prowess.  Washington was suspended for the rest of the Season, he became a pariah, the doctor who had been giving his wife pre-care, refused to deliver Kermit's baby.  The NBA reformed, with big-punishments for fighting, and you saw little of it.  It's never too late for positive-change (You Swine), and we hope that Kermit, even at advanced-age, amends