The Amazing Race – Week 7

Remember when I started posting about “The Amazing Race” and I had such high hopes for it?  Well, those hopes have been dropping the last couple of weeks, and this week’s episode didn’t help.
Some things about the show are still exactly as I had hoped.  There’s still great scenery from all over the world.  There [...]

Unexpected Kudos

Sincere congratulations to the Missouri Tigers on their surprising win over Memphis last night.  Ordinarily, I despise Missouri, because I went to Kansas and that’s just the rule in this part of the world.  But that game last night was a thing of beauty, for several reasons:

It made the Big 12 look pretty darned good, [...]

(Heavy Sigh)

Why does Congress suck, you ask? 
Because they waste their time and our money on stupid crap like this, instead of the economy, the war(s), etc.
It’s gotten to the point that I would be ashamed if either of my children expressed a desire to be a politician.

Of Catholicism and Baseball

Apparently Catholics in Detroit are up in arms over the start time of the Tigers’ home opener this season, which happens to fall on Good Friday.  It also happens to be the only ballgame of the day that falls during the hours when Jesus is supposed to have been hanging on the cross.  Now many Detroit [...]

The Amazing Race – Week 6

There will be no thong-induced bump to my readership this week, as the latest episode of “The Amazing Race“ did not involve any stripping by the contestants.  Drat.  Oh well, I’ll just have to draw readers with my entertaining writing and sparkling wit. 
On this week’s leg of the race, the producers decided to send them [...]

Debt Games

This article made me laugh:
“GOP Predicts Doomsday if Obama Budget Passed”
It made me laugh for a couple of reasons.  First, this is really, really bad journalism.  At no point did any GOP representative cited in the article mention the word “doomsday”.  That is a concoction of the writer, and it’s not even an accurate representation [...]

What Happened Here?

I just learned that two vessels of the US Navy collided last night.  Thankfully, no one appears to have been seriously injured, though we can all expect higher gas prices the next few days, as oil prices spiked when it was learned that one of the vessels spilled about 25,000 gallons of diesel fuel into [...]

The Defending Champs Play Today

Okay, you guys can start the tournament now.

The Amazing Race – Week 5

One of the funny things about this kind of blog, which touches on a variety of subjects instead of having a single focus, is that you never know which posts are going to draw a lot of traffic.  Sometimes you write something that you’re sure will bring in readers and you get nothing.  Other times you [...]

Infuriating…

There is really nothing else I can say about this article.
As an employee of a company that has a largely bonus-based compensation system, I understand that sometimes bonuses are necessary, no matter what the circumstances are in the business at that moment.  For instance, my employer’s horrible results in 2008 were almost exclusively the fault [...]