I wish that ESPN, FoxSports, Spike, and every other channel would stop showing people playing poker. It seems like every week there's a new World Championship of Poker. First of all, poker, like cheerleading, is not a sport. You just sit your aft end in a chair and throw cards around. ESPN might as well start showing double-headers of poker ( Read more... )

After months of wasted time and false hopes, I've finally burst through the placenta of government red tape, exited the womb of the military bureaucracy, and come screaming into the world of the Delayed Entry Program. And if that's not a fitting analogy as to my situation, then I don't know what is. I could've worked in something about a doctor ( Read more... )

This morning I had a meeting with the master sergeant over recruiting in the Baton Rouge and New Orleans areas. And at this meeting, someone in a position of authority finally explained to me in depth what the freaking holdup is with me going back to the Marines ( Read more... )

Brokeback Mountain is still only playing in select theaters, but it's already been determined that it's the best movie of the year, perhaps the best movie of the century, perhaps the best movie ever. It's been hyped in political circles as a groundbreaking achievement that might finally cause Americans to turn the corner in their view toward ( Read more... )

The confirmation hearings for Samuel Alito haven't gone like I expected they would. Well, that's not completely true. I fully expected the blowhard senators to make speeches disguised as questions. I also knew that during their "questions," Democrats would take shots at the president over issues that have absolutely nothing to do with Alito. I ( Read more... )

Though it doesn't seem like it on the surface, this is a great night for LSU football. This is vindication for 2003, where USC and their sympathizers at ESPN and the AP tainted the most beautiful victory in the history of LSU athletics. Finally, someone has confirmed that USC is not the greatest team that has ever walked the earth, and they are ( Read more... )

What an awful story from West Virginia. For days the families of the thirteen trapped miners waited to receive word on their loved ones, and miscommunication caused everyone to believe that twelve of the miners had been found alive, when in fact, only one had been found alive ( Read more... )

I saw King Kong a few nights ago, and let me tell you, those three hours flew by as if they were only six hours. Actually, the length really didn't feel that long, and I liked the movie overall, but there were some parts that were just ridiculous. For example, I love how Jack Black's character wasn't really surprised at all to see dinosaurs ( Read more... )

So yeah, posting has been kind of sparse lately. I would say I'm sorry for the lack of entries, like those people who update their journals once a year like to say -- but I'm not sorry. So why lie about it ( Read more... )

The reason I didn't leave for the Marines on November 28 was because a waiver for my broken wrist hadn't come back like we were told it was going to. Everything was put on hold for that waiver to come back, and until it did, all I could do was wait. We faxed it to the Jackson MEPS on October 5, and it finally came back Monday (coincidentally, my ( Read more... )