Overbearing College Sports Fans!

Overbearing college sports fans make me want to hit them in the head with a baseball bat! I love that people can be passionate about their favorite college sports team. The good Lord knows that I am very loyal to my Alma mater, and there is the difference between being loyal or passionate as apposed to being a complete tool. The other day I was wearing one of my many alumni shirts and some people behind me started having a very loud conversation about, how they would never attend "MY" college because "their" college was far superior in a particular sporting event. It struck me then, as it often does when I hear such ignorance, that these very loud and rude people could not have even attended, much less graduated from, a school of higher education, because I would hope that they would have been much more articulate in their argument over which college would be best to attend to receive the best education. Most overbearing college sports fans are OBLIVIOUS to the fact the you actually attend college to get an EDUCATION and earn a DIPLOMA in your field of study!

Memorial Day

"America will never be destroyed for outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."

- Abraham Lincoln -





"True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost."

- Arthur Ashe -

Why do we listen? Why do we care?

USA WEEKEND May 16-18 - On the phone with...John Cusack - Question #5 - We know you are a huge baseball fan. How would you fix baseball if you were commissioner? Answer part one - "Take all the artificial turf out, and put real grass in every stadium." This, I have little problem with, just one mans opinion on real vs. artificial playing surfaces. Answer part 2 - "And get rid of the corporate influence, too. The fact that they could rename Wrigley Field to something like Diet Pepsi Park is like defacing a great temple." Despite the fact that I do not care for Mr Cusack's politics which is clearly anti-capitalist, I like him as an entertainer. Having said that, Cubs Park was renamed Wrigley Field in 1926 in honor of William Wrigley Jr. the chewing gum magnate and Cubs co-owner (1914-1916)(ballparks.com). I am hoping that none of my readers give any weight to what these "enlightened" actors have to say, outside of the world of entertainment. After all they are just entertainers. Why do we listen? Why do we care?

Finger Pointers!

People who point fingers in every other direction rather than at themselves and yell so that every person with in audible reach can hear the rhetoric they are vomiting everywhere always make me weary. In most cases I find that what ever it is that they are screaming about is just to deflect attention away from what ever it is that they are guilty of engaging in themselves. A friend of my told me, that his aunt had a saying, " You preach best, what you know best."

"Jimmy Leg" at the restaurant!

While dining at one of the local Oriental Buffet restaurants last evening, with my wife and son, I had the distinct pleasure to eat my beef and broccoli all the while 4 teenage boys afflicted with Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) aka "Jimmy Leg"sat in the booth behind us. My side of the booth was trembling like a 4.0 earth quake at times during my lovely dinner with my family. It felt like at any moment that these poor boys, who where completely OBLIVIOUS to the Tsunami they had made in my wife's egg drop soup, would fall in the floor with some epileptic fit and emergency services would need to be called! But alas, neither Epilepsy or Touretts nor even RLS/Jimmy Leg was responsible for the booth shaking, just poor manners!

COPS! (Just a rant)

I would like to make one thing perfectly clear before I start on this rant. I have nothing but respect for the men and women of law enforcement. COPS has been one of my favorite shows for years and they DO NOT get paid nearly enough for the crap they have to put up with. Having said that....why is it that I keep witnessing cops break just about every traffic law on the books! I see cops driving around talking on their cell phones weaving in and out of traffic with no regard for the posted speed limit or the use of a turn signal! I've seen local, county, and state cops speeding through school zones, construction zones and doing "California stops" through 4-way intersections just to name a few infractions. All of these "infractions" if witnessed by a cop would, with little doubt, pull you over and give you a ticket for each offense, especially during the long holiday weekend coming up!

Lady will you please take your monkey outside?!

At the end of every work day, I have the pleasure to watch a small child run wild in my place of employ. Each and everyday this child runs and screams around the room much like the monkeys at our local zoo at feeding time! The entire time the child is reminding my last trip to the monkey house, his mother is walking around talking to other adults in the room, going about her end of day business, completely OBLIVIOUS to her very own howler monkey running wild, terrorizing everyone else in the immediate area!