ROGUE AGENT IN COURT: BY THE WAY, IT'S PRONOUNCED NAP-A-NEE

There was a pretty sizable media horde out for Rogue Agent David Frost's first court appearance in Napanee, Ont.. (birthplace of yours truly and Avril Lavigne, in that order*) on charges that he sexually exploited a group of teenagers.

However the court case turns out, it's hard to reject Deadspin's sentiments expressed prior to Frost's court appearance: "We don't know if he's actually being escorted by mounties, but if he is, we hope the horses kick him in his f------ face."

Some Deadspin commenters have started joking, "Free Mike Danton." If you want to make the T-shirts, yours truly will gladly split the profits 50/50.

Oh, and yes, that juice bar in downtown Kingston that Sportsnet reporter Erin Paul did her stand-up from... that is the very place Frost had been involved with, which had the locals none too happy, as you'll recall.

DIGRESSION ALERT

FYI to the on-air talent at Rogers Sportsnet: It's pronounced Nap-a-nee, not Nap-nee. Scholars maintain that the translation was lost hundreds of years ago, but it's believed to be a Mohawk word for "place of only two seasons, hockey and fastball." TSN's Rod Smith and Brent Wallace did have it right on the 6:30 p.m. Sportscentre.

Toronto-centric TV talking heads seem to struggle with that second vowel in middle-of-nowhere Eastern Ontario place names. In April, when two students at Ernestown Secondary School in Odessa (10 minutes east of Napanee) were charged with conspiracy to commit murder, at least one national newscast called it Earns-town.

Yes, the sleepy little backwater burgs of my formative years have been in the news for all the wrong reasons this year. Who knows, maybe when Avril Lavigne put Napanee on the map three, four years ago with her climb up the pop charts, it was part of some deal with the devil and now the bill is coming due. Feel free to discuss this among yourselves.

Much obliged to Eric McErlain at Off Wing Opinion for the link earlier.

(* This isn't ego talking, just a mere expression of fact: Yours truly is seven years, eight months and 25 days older than Avril, and no, I didn't have to look that up. OK, it is the ego talking.)

That's all for now. Send your thoughts to neatesager@yahoo.ca.