Archive for the 'Personal' Category

Some Hometown Pride (and New Town Pride)

Monday, February 15th, 2010

According to the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index, the town I grew up in, Holland, MI is the second best city in the nation! (even though they lumped in those losers from Grand Haven) I haven’t lived there in 10 years, but I still make it back twice a year. I’m always surprised to […]

Germans Win WWII Due to Strength of Schedule

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

BCS DECLARES GERMANY WINNER OF WORLD WAR II
US Ranked 4th
After determining the Big-12 championship game participants the BCS computers were put to work on other major contests and today the BCS declared Germany to be the winner of World War II.
“Germany put together an incredible number of victories beginning with the annexation of Austria and […]

Yahoo Has Already Called Tomorrow’s Lions Game

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

Yahoo’s fantasy football game has inexplicably already called a winner and a score in tomorrow’s Packers-Lions game.

Do they know something we don’t?

My Keynote Address to the Hewlett Model Congress

Saturday, July 4th, 2009

I gave the keynote address at the Hewlett Model Congress in Long Island, NY on April 14, 2000. It was my first major speech, so I wanted to practice it first. I did a practice run at AU with NYRA-AU and my friends in the audience. One of my friends was from […]

And The Rest Was History…

Friday, July 3rd, 2009

My first victory and my first campaign against age discrimination. My first chance at being on TV and they never mentioned me! But… I only have myself to blame. It was a gorgeous spring day, and I had less than a month of school left in my senior year and… I wasn’t there when the […]

My Very First Campaign

Friday, July 3rd, 2009

This was my first action as a youth rights advocate way back during my senior year in high school. This was April 21, 1999 (yes, one day after Columbine). Look at my pony tail, ah! I was speaking out against age discrimination at three local businesses in my hometown of Holland, Michigan who had policies […]

Galen Tells It Like It Is

Saturday, May 2nd, 2009

A rare link to Snipe-Me, but Galen couldn’t be more right about swine flu.

Yovani Gallardo, Wow!

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

Who needs the other 8 guys on the team? This guy can do it all!
Brewers pitcher Yovani Gallardo pulled off an interesting feat today, beating the Pirates with 11 strikeouts in eight innings and providing his own support with a homer in the seventh inning off Ian Snell. It was Gallardo’s second homer this […]

You Are Being Lied to About Pirates

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

Looks like those darn Europeans are mucking up Somalia.
In 1991, the government of Somalia - in the Horn of Africa - collapsed. Its nine million people have been teetering on starvation ever since - and many of the ugliest forces in the Western world have seen this as a great opportunity to steal the country’s […]

Who Watches the Walkthrough?

Friday, March 6th, 2009

Wow, someone actually merged the entire Watchmen story with the NFL. It is pretty long, so I didn’t read the whole thing, but the parts I read seemed both spot-on and amusing at the same time. This definitely took some time to put together.
Btw, best comment from the story:
I want to […]