Random Thoughts

"Football is the Opiate of the Masses" "Why not bring back opium as the opiate of the masses?"

My hometown LSU Tiger stadium hits #3 on the world's toughest venues for a visiting team. Only 3 of them are in the U.S.,most are soccer fields or a cricket pitch where people regularly get injured...

Because hy- phens that are poor- ly placed by a publish- er make you adver- tisment really har- d to read.

Sent to me by Ben Ferrell, with information from Brooke Slack Wall: You may or may not have heard of our lackluster school system's plan for BRHS. The school is in a great state of disrepair. Instead of Fixing the school and bringing it up to date, there is a push to demolish it and…

It's a collection of links and random thoughts, stories and such that I'd like to keep to reference - that I don't mind other folks seeing.

From my early career in the Newspaper business. Here's the essay I wrote that won 1st place North America:

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So, I've finally joined a Fantasy Football league. And already -- I actually care about the NFL. It's amazing -- I had no idea just the act of drafting my team would make me start thinking like they're "my guys." We'll see how I do...