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The RedskinsToday, the US Patent Office canceled the trademark registration for the Washington Redskins football team. In a 2–1 decision, the Patent Office found that the nickname is "disparaging of Native Americans." Trademarks that are found to "disparage or belittle other groups" are not permitted by federal law. ESPN reported that this also happened back in 1999, but the courts overturned that ruling due to a technicality relating to the age of the person who filed the complaint.This decision comes after years and years of contentious debate over the merits of the name of a football team. If you have elected officials wasting time bitching you out about your sports-team mascot instead of fixing the all-you-can-eat buffet of misery plaguing America, you should probably just suck it up and pick a different mascot. Might I suggest a cute animal like a beaver, or an indigenous creature of the Washington, DC, area, such as the "disgruntled Senate page"? Who wouldn't want to get season tickets to see the Washington Pagers, or sport merchandise bearing the logo of a harried 18-year-old in a suit covered in flop sweat? That's a continuing resolution that I would happily vote "yea" on.Follow Dave and Sarah on Twitter.
