Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- I agree 100% with Brian Kenny on Curt Schilling

- File this under "you have to be F'n kidding me!" FDA may ban ice cream sprinkles.

- Tom Brady's restructured contract is a Win-Win for him and the Patriots.

- Soldier's wedding had to be moved so Obama could play golf.

- Put me in the camp that doesn't think North Korea was behind the Sony hack

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

The Baylor / TCU game last night was great but it won't end up being the best game of the year. TCU ended their night on an interception. The best game of the year won't be ending on a turnover... Is the real news that Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong flies Southwest? Or that he got kicked off the plane? Can you imagine his trying the "Do you know who I am?" bit and the airline attendant asking "Then what are you doing on this cheap flight?"... Every year the Heisman Trophy hype is in overdrive the first week of the season. On Thursday it was Russell Wilson that was the darkhorse for the award. This morning it is Robert Griffin III (RG3). Who will it be once today's games are done?... If I had a business I would add a small line item charge to each bill for "opaque retraction". Who would complain? Who would know what it was for?... Brian Kenny was my favorite ESPN anchor. Now he is leaving ESPN for the MLB Network. Good luck to a good guy... Speaking of sports guys on the move - Bruce Feldman freed himself from the purgatory that was ESPN (his sin was not being Craig James) and is now at CBS Sports. On his first day he predicted a 49-17 Wisconsin victory over Nevada. The actual score was 51-17. Way to impress the new bosses Bruce... Unsightly Ear Hair would be a good name for a band or a fantasy football team... I'm looking forward to hearing Obama's upcoming jobs speech. I'm just afraid that we are going to have to pass his Jobs Creation Bill to find out what's inside it. No thanks...

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

I picked up a book called The History of the World and have started reading it. What I find amusing is that the book has an epilogue - as if the author knows what happens after the world ends... Very well done video on the fall of the Cowboys... The ESPN Sportscenter commercial with Richard Simmons has to be the worst one they ever did. I have to think it was an inside joke / punishment played on the the ESPN News guys. Why else make Brian Kenny front and center in a commercial with Richard Simmons while making Kenny wear a pink shirt.... A question that lingers is whether the Chargers got off to a bad early season start because they were adjusting to new coaches or whether the early season slump was caused by the beatdown they got from the Patriots in week 2? I'm sure it was a little of both but I'd also bet that San Diego is just one early quick score from cowering in a fetal position... Janis Joplin would have turned 65 today. I'm guessing that she wouldn't have aged very well...