Kurt Warner, Champion.

 
For those of us who love football, today is the day of days, Super Bowl Sunday, and although my team ended it’s run in the Divisional Playoffs, this afternoon you will find me in front of the TV pulling for the Arizona Cardinals (I can’t believe I just wrote that) and in particular, Kurt Warner. [...]

Thoughts on the Inauguration

Having watched today’s coronation, er…I mean inauguration – which was, I must say, the best comedy on TV since Andy Griffith – I cannot let it pass without a few observations.
¨      Aretha Franklin. Holy Smokes, I haven’t heard a noise like that since the neighbor’s poodle had a litter of St. Bernard puppies.  In all [...]

Little Known College Football Traditions

As we prepare for CFB season, its time to take a look into some of the little known traditions at our favorite schools:
 
1.     Auburn and Clemson. In addition to sharing the same nickname, coaches (see John Heisman and Cliff Ellis), the same town -ok, Clemson has a lake..but Auburn has an animal husbandry building-, these [...]

2008 Idiot(s) of the Year Nominee #1.

Remember a few years ago, when Russians stood in lines for days to buy bread? Well, in Australia, people are now shooting each other over bags of rolls. Benjamin Jorgensen and his cohort, and I’m sure now former girlfriend, Donna Hayes decided to rob the Cuckoo Restaurant in Melbourne. These two sterling bandits grabbed a [...]

It’s Not Easy Being Green.

Sometimes good material just leaps out at you and today is one of those days. Over the weekend, about 800 people attended the Green Party debate at the Herbst Theater in, where else, San Francisco (there haven’t been that many kooks assembled in one place since Dennis Kucinich had a private dinner with Shirley MacLane). [...]

You can pay me now, or you can pay me later…

How was your day at the office dear? Well…this poor guy found out, or did his wife find out about him? A Polish man decided to take a little trip to the friendly neighborhood brothel and found his wife working there! Wouldn’t you have loved to have heard that conversation. According to news reports, the wife told him that [...]

2007 Idiot of the Year Winner.

And the winner is…….. MATT WILKENSON of Portland, Oregon. <link here> When he was showing off his reptile relations with friends, he thought it would be fun to put his pet Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake into his mouth and make them laugh, it wasn’t quite as amusing after the rattlesnake latched onto the back of his throat and sent venom [...]

Friday Night Lights.

 
I sometimes joke that I waited 15 years to see my son playing under Friday night lights, but that never in my wildest dreams did I think it would be in the band. That somehow gets a chuckle when I tell it, but the reality is that as much as I enjoyed playing, and watching, [...]

To Ernie, Skip & Pete…Farewell, and Thanks.

      
Today, I say goodbye to a group of friends I have never met, friends who don’t know that I exist, yet were in my home for the last 30 years.  The voices of Ernie, Skip and Pete were, and are, as familiar to me as the voices of my children and I will miss them. [...]

The Emmy Awards, Idiots in Review.

Is it not amazing, that year after year in a room filled with “great” acting talent, people praised for their skill and realism in the portraying of “ordinary people,” stand in front of the world and willingly show that they are almost illiterate and incapable of speaking coherently unless their lines are written for them? Here are some [...]