Remember This?

Remember The Darkness? I surely do. They happened to be the purveyors of songs that a high schooler is likely to get stuck in their head; I was that high-schooler and am probably the better for it. Regardless, this is a damn catchy song which can be enjoyed by any age group.

Quote of the Day

"Jesse Jackson also said he thought Barack Obama was talking down to black people by lecturing them on things like fatherhood and being a responsible husband. Jesse thought it was insulting not only to him, but to his former mistress and their love child."

-Jay Leno

An Interesting Read

I am going to post the entire article at the end of this blog, but some key portions raise a few quality questions.

Basically, the article is about Berea College. Berea is interesting in that it only recruits student's from low income families and charges them nothing to attend school. The food they eat is grown on campus, the furniture is made in various courses and each student is required to work a 10 hour-a-week job. The majority of the student's expenses, however, are paid for with the college's massive endowment of $1.1 billion.

Most universities have large endowments, although many are no where near the size of Berea's. It does raise an interesting question though: As the economy hits the shitter, are we doing enough to help students pay for their educations?

Here at the University of Florida we're having programs, as well as jobs, cut left and right. Tuition rates are steadily rising, funding is being cut yet UF sits on top of $1.2 billion -- a number that will probably continue to rise.

Obviously, I don't think it would be a good idea for every institution of higher learning to adopt the Berea model, but maybe we could do more. I mean that is a hell of a lot of money just sitting there. Are we waiting for a rainy day to crack the massive piggy bank? It would seem this is some sort of a rainy day. Maybe we need to look more closely at the piggy bank.

Here's the article. Give it a gander.

Greg Norman: Showing Us That A Choke Is A Choke At Any Age

I like Greg Norman, I really do. He has nice blond hair, and he's Australian, and he's got a cool nickname: The Shark, he even usually wears ridiculous hats (like the one pictured at right) which is nice. He seems like an affable and all around nice guy -- not too hard to cheer for right?

This weekend I found myself strangely intrigued by The Open Championship, even without Tiger Woods casting his shadow of awesomeness across the field of hacks. The reason was simple: Greg Norman's old, and recently married, ass was clinging to the lead like a sucker fish to the belly of a Great White. He seemed like a fungus. Now granted, it was a very happy, feel-good story type fungus, but fungus nonetheless.

The 53-year-old had the lead after 54 holes, a two stroke lead at that. The whole sports world watched on to see if The Shark could seal the deal, do the impossible and become the oldest major winner of all time. He could not. And for the seventh time in his career, Greg Norman blew the lead in a major after holding it through three rounds -- an impressive feat in it's own right.

When he bogeyed one you thought "it's OK he'll settle down." When he bogeyed two it was "alright, it's a long round Greg, you're still sniffing the lead." But after a bogey on three, it was "you idiot, what the hell are you doing, man? what are you insane? this could be historic, stop choking!" But alas, no matter what, no matter how rosily colored by the media, no matter how fawned over for his perseverance over our greatest of adversaries, age -- this was still Greg Norman -- an older choker, but a choker just the same.

I applaud him for being there, but he could have taken the damn thing down and made himself one of the sports stories of the year.

Whaa??

Check out this awesome picture of two of the NBA's premier point guards.

For reason's unknown to anyone, Baron Davis and Steve Nash decided to hop on a two person bicycle and cruise around the greater Santa Monica area.

I don't know what I like better, the balance of Baron's Mr. Rogers, conservative and cautious style sweater and daredevil one handed steering and camcorder recording, or Nash's Canadian interpretation of a Pee Wee's playhouse extra's outfit. The suspenders are almost as nice as the plaid shorts that they are precariously connected to.

Quote of the Day

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.

-Alanis Morissette

The Good Stuff

You may have seen Shwayze featured on MTV, as they have a show set to launch for the faux-music network.

Shwayze, and particularly this song Buzzin, is set to become the sound of the summer. The cool beats, slick groove and smooth lyrics seem to be the perfect storm as far as summer vibe joints go. Put the windows down, head towards a body of water and rock some Shwayze.

Enjoy.