Archive for August, 2005

The Therapist

Friday, August 12th, 2005

Thanks again to Brandon for finding this very funny bit about Sheehan protesting in Crawford. Another one of “The Therapist’s” articles worth checking out is: Married, Interracial Couple Who Didn’t Get Shot To Death In Final Gun Battle Just Like Bonnie & Clyde. This is definitely some funny stuff.

Resignation Letters and Meetings

Thursday, August 11th, 2005

While looking for a pre-written resignation letter, I found this fairly useful little advice page about post-resignation meetings. I can relate to several of the items in the article. This time through, I am hoping to avoid some of the pitfuls mentioned there. While I have very few complaints, I still find [...]

A Passion for Video Games in South Korea

Wednesday, August 10th, 2005

I’ve always been under the impression that video games, soccer, motorized scooters and a dozen other distractions were tied deeply to the decline of baseball in America (particularly the skills of kids), but apparently we don’t hold the title for most passion for video games either. South Koreans are even more into [...]

Daylight Savings Switch May Cause Problems

Monday, August 8th, 2005

Apparently, the new energy bill contains a change to daylight savings time. I regret that I hadn’t thought about the energy savings that could be achieved from daylight savings time (having fewer waking hours after sunset). But of course, I wouldn’t trade a little energy savings for the royal pain we are going [...]

Official NCAA Statement About the Mascot Issue

Saturday, August 6th, 2005

Here is the official NCAA statement about the Native American mascots. Contained in the document is the list of colleges and universities they are targeting. Buried in the document is this little paragraph which I think indicates the kind of idiots that are overseeing the colleges and universities of this country:

The recommendations stemmed [...]

NCAA Bans Indian Mascots During Postseason

Saturday, August 6th, 2005

This is the kind of PC crap that we’ve come to expect from colleges and universities and now it’s the higher body of the NCAA pushing PC on them. I would just like to point out that if we continue to strive toward this lowest common denominator garbage, we’ll just end up at the [...]

New York Times Goes After Sealed Adoption Records

Friday, August 5th, 2005

In what seems to be consistent with the paper’s history, the New York Times has apparently pursued the adoption records for Supreme Court Nominee Roberts. And the backlash has been strong. Personally, I am not surprised. This reminds me of the Bork stuff where reports were able to obtain the list [...]

The New Car

Friday, August 5th, 2005

Once again, we have survived the arduous task of buying a new car. We both felt that we needed to get rid of our Jeep and so we ended up buying a 2005 Honda Accord. This is actually my 3rd Honda so I feel like I am coming back into the fold. [...]