Brief NFL Complaint

Recognizing that any fan of the Boston sports teams and the University of Kansas’ sports teams has little to complain about at the moment, I still want to mention, out of a simple sense of fairness, that the NFL’s method of determining playoff teams is so screwed up that the team that could be the [...]

Chosen for What?

We just got back from dinner at the local Uno Chicago Grill.  It wasn’t bad, but I’ve had better meals, so we probably won’t be going back.
But I’m not here to write about the food.  I’m here to tell you that our waiter was a bland, white-bread looking guy who had “Chosen One” tattooed on [...]

Signifying Nothing

I gave up on “The Sound and the Fury“.  I got about a third of the way through the book, about 30 pages into the second section, the one narrated by the horribly depressed, suicidal character, and just couldn’t bring myself to go any further.  Stream of consciousness writing may not be my thing, because [...]

Reading Some Classics

For some reason I don’t understand, I’ve felt the need recently to read some classic books that have slipped past me.  Maybe I felt inadequate when one of these books would be mentioned and I didn’t really know anything about it other than the title.  Maybe I’m just a curious guy.  Maybe I ran out [...]

Winter Driving Etiquette

It’s snowing in Kansas City today, and it became apparent to me very early this morning that we need a refresher in winter driving etiquette in this part of the world.  Here are the rules, folks, pay attention.

Be sure your personal vehicle is properly equipped.  DO have an ice scraper.  DO have windshield washer fluid.  [...]

I Second That Emotion

It was reported widely today that Charles Barkley, humorous NBA analyst and one-time college basketball player at Auburn University, is furious with his alma mater* for their recent hiring of Gene Chizik to be their new football coach.  In Barkley’s view, based in part on his own experience as part of Auburn’s search committee the last [...]

BBWAA Logic

It’s Hall of Fame season again for baseball, which means it’s the time of year when we start to see some really mind-altering arguments made by people who apparently never had to take a course in logic on the way to their journalism degrees.  I don’t want to dwell on this kind of thing, but [...]

Time Terminology

I need a little help here, so please offer your insights in the comments.  Recently I was asked to re-schedule a meeting.  One of the participants had a last minute conflict at the scheduled time, so she sent me an email asking for a change.  These were her exact words:
“Can you move our meeting back [...]

A Bad Taste in My Mouth

Can someone please explain why medicine that is specifically designed for your mouth tastes terrible? 
I’ve got a wisdom tooth trying to pop through the gum, and it’s causing some discomfort (as you can imagine).  So until I can get to see my dentist later this month, my wife bought me some Anbesol to see if that [...]

Depressing News

It’s entirely possible that there’s a conspiracy underway to keep everyone so depressed that they just stay in bed with the lights off.  I say this because when my alarm went off this morning and the all-news station our clock radio is tuned to came on, the first five or six minutes of the newscast [...]