I don't know Mark R. Downs Jr., 27, of Dunbar, PA, but after reading this, I'm pretty sure he's a jackass. I'm all for competition, and a T-ball coach should be teaching it as well as the basics of (yawn) baseball. But what's the lesson here? That's it's okay to whack out a disabled kid if it's going to prevent you from winning? Nice life lesson Mark. Like I said: Jackass!
I've been incredibly busy the past several weeks, thus I've had little time for blogging. And this post is probably about a week late, but as they say, "better late than never"…
For all of you who have been whining "It's too hot", please just shut the hell up! You're likely the same people who will be whining about it being too cold next winter.
Summers here in Western New York are generally a nice 75-80 degrees most of the time. I can accept that, but the past month we've seen a lot of 85-90 and even several 90-95 degree days. Warm, you bet. Oh, and it's also been quite humid so it is somewhat suffocating. What can I say? Bring it on!!! Sorry, I miss the warmer, muggy weather I grew up with in Illinois. I believe it was just last week that I heard on the news that this is the warmest summer we've had in a decade. Let's hope we don't have to wait that long again! In the meantime, it's wonderful weather to hop on a bike and go climb the steepest hill you can find!
Yesterday was spent trekking off to one of Colin's concerts and attending a picnic at one of my wive's relatives. So after a long day we got home last night and plunked down on the couch and started channel surfing. As is typical on a Saturday night without cable TV, there was little too choose from. Thus we stopped to watch some of the LIVE 8 concert. After a couple of acts there was a musical montage of photos featuring malnourished children in Africa (obviously). After this was a commercial break…for TRIMSPA. So as I was watching this I'm thinking it's kind of strange that here I am watching something about the plight of poor starving people in Africa and it's sponsered by this? A company that exists and thrives off selling pills to overfed, fat, lazy Americans to help them lose their world leading excess pounds! It was at this point that my wife turned to me and asked, "Does anybody else see the irony in this?". I doubt most people did, but I certainly did honey!
Another one that comes to me via Rob…
Meet a foolish young Thai man and his bottle of super glue.