You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy.™ Political rocking. Have you watched a political event lately? Balloons are bouncing and people are clapping and the music is blaring as the candidate takes the stage. The visual is powerful, and says a lot about the man or woman you might elect to be POTUS. But […]
You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy. Tim Tebow Haters. Don’t hate him because he is devout. Don’t hate him because he is spiritual. Don’t hate him because he thanks Jesus for every first down. Thank him for bringing diversified interest to the NFL. Tebow literally brought an audience to the NFL dinner table who […]
You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy.™ Driving up on a felony bust. I’ve done it a hundred, maybe a thousand times in my career, but it’s still a rush. Thursday afternoon I’m checking out some scanner traffic about a man reportedly shot in the head. I’m at the apartment complex. Crime tape […]
You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy.™Math problems that make people feel uncomfortable for reasons unrelated to arithmetic. Math is hard enough. Do we really need to make it a course that insults as well as infuriates? DATELINE: ATLANTA A school system here is under fire for administering a math test that asked […]
You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy.The Men’s room. Go to any bar in any town and chances are the men’s room is an EPA quarantine zone. It’s a gigantic, petri dish of human excrement clinging to floors and toilet seats and dripping from walls.It’s as if a urinating Jack the Ripper was […]
You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy.™ The BCS National Championship Game. Since most of you will be drunk soon, I decided to be your scribe of history, your Oscar Madison of Sports, documenting random ruminations that I see, feel and hear. So this is my crazy tribute to the game, to the […]
you know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy.putting your plasma at the curb with the garbage cans and recyclables. After 2 weeks of looking at the big rectangle of cracked dreams in the front room, I finally decide to get rid of it. The constant reminder of what it was and what it had […]
You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy.MOUNTAIN MOUSE SODA DATELINE: MADISONCOUNTY, Illinois It’s here that 52 year old Ronald Ball claims he drank a Mountain Doo flavored with fermenting, rotting mouse. Yuck. Nothing ruins a good buzz like rotting rodent. So Mr. Ball shot gunned some vermon. Instead of doing the Doo, he […]
You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy.™ The saying: I’d rather be lucky than good. Whoever coined that phrase was probably a lazy ass complainer who needed to say something to someone who out performed him. A rival news director said this to me once. It pissed me off. He called me after I […]
You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy.™ Raiders fans. Commitment to crazy. I was watching the Raiders vs. the Chargers on Sunday. It’s week 17, the last week of the season. Many teams are all ready in the big dance. Many games are irrelevant. But not the Raiders’ game. This one is for all […]