Grading my content predictions for 2011: B+ ... maybe an A-
Before I serve up my content predictions for 2012, which will be my next article, let’s recap
my predictions from last year. I invoke any and all excuses for poor grades; my dog ate the original predictions, the teacher only likes women, and an emergency funeral interrupted my content mojo – all are in play in spite of the fact that I am the teacher, the class, and the jury.
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A few things that are bothering me this week
Let’s begin with
needless to say. If we say
needless to say, why do we always keep on saying or writing things when apparently it’s all so obvious that we don’t need to say anything? Give me a break.
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JoPa, we hardly knew ye
Well, that’s not exactly true – depending on how ye look at things. I can’t say I was ever a
Joe Paterno guy, partly because I was never a
Penn State guy. But I’m sorrowful and I’d like to believe he was mindful of the needs of others, except until a few months ago.
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Why Tim Tebow is relevant. And why he’s not.
Leaning on my experience as a standout football player in sixth grade, I can tell you that Tim Tebow’s throwing motion falls somewhere between my sister tossing a water balloon at me and the great submarine pitcher
Dan Quisenberry. Or in clinical terms, it sucks. But in this world of suicide bombers, does it really matter if Tim can throw the bomb or the Hail Mary? I wonder if he actually says a Hail Mary before he tosses the Hail Mary – my guess is he does.
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