Fresh off the presses.

[Fox Mike]

JUST RECEIVED INFORMATION:
The Washington Redskins have dropped the word "Washington" from their name because it is embarrassing.

 

[gramps]

Excellent !!!
gramps

 

[graygun]

They haven't played in DC for years anyhow.

 

[GunnyGene]

May I suggest a new name? "The Unaffiliated Diversities" . Can't use 'skins' since that would be offensive to critters who have exoskeletons.

Btw, I ran across an excellent essay today, which has some bearing on this and similar tortured wording:

The Language of Despotism
by Bruce Thornton
Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Long before 1984 gave us the adjective “Orwellian” to describe the political corruption of language and thought, Thucydides observed how factional struggles for power make words their first victims. Describing the horrors of civil war on the island of Corcyra during the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides wrote, “Words had to change their ordinary meaning and to take that which was now given them.” Orwell explains the reason for such degradation of language in his essay “Politics and the English Language”: “Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.”

Tyrannical power and its abuses comprise the “indefensible” that must be verbally disguised. The gulags, engineered famines, show trials, and mass murder of the Soviet Union required that it be a “regime of lies,” as the disillusioned admirer of Soviet communism Pierre Pascal put it in 1927.

More: http://www.hoover.org/research/language-despotism

 

[FastEd]

JUST RECEIVED INFORMATION:
The Washington Redskins have dropped the word "Washington" from their name because it is embarrassing.

I like it!

 

[Fox Mike]

They haven't played in DC for years anyhow.

True! They play in Hyattsville MD. Much like the NY Giants and the NY Jetts play in New Jersey.

 

[ArmedinAZ]

Deep in the Navajo Nation in northern Arizona is Red Mesa High School, home of the REDSKINS.

http://rmusdhs.ss4.sharpschool.com/programs/redskins_sports

If it's OK with them it shouldn't bother a bunch of PC pale faces one bit. :?

 

[ChiefMuzz]

I vote for Gregg Easterbrook's nickname: The Potomac River Basin Indigenous Peoples.

 

[Fox Mike]

I vote for Gregg Easterbrook's nickname: The Potomac River Basin Indigenous Peoples.

Actually they are closer to the Patuxent River than the Potomac.