American Idol Results Show, April 30th

The show started with the best group song so far this season.  There was even some real harmony.  I ran it back just to make sure they were not lip-syncing.  I am surprised that this part of the show is getting better just as the contestants have more songs to learn each week.  It might [...]

Much Ado About Miley

Amazing.  With all of the problems in the world today, America, Bill O’Reilly, the Christian Coalition, and others have decided to gang up on a fifteen year old girl for showing her back in a photograph.  Let’s be honest.  That is what happened.  You can see more flesh on younger girls at the beach, but [...]

American Idol Top Five, April 29

It was Neil Diamond Night, and this allowed the contestants a wide variety of song choices.
Oddly the judges did not judge the first song right after they sang it, but waited until after all had sung their first songs to comment. I did not like this tweak to the format, but I assume it was [...]

Accountability

Much has been made of accountability in exercise programs.  The effectiveness of accountability has been documented by many substance abuse programs including Alcoholic’s Anonymous.
When we began our weight loss programs, my wife and I made commitments to one another.  We have held each other to our commitments and have expectations that each of us will [...]

Green, the Color of Vomit

When I was a child, like most boys, my favorite colors were blue and red.  If it was time to buy a shirt, it was usually blue, red or if I was getting way out there, maroon or orange.  There were clearly defined colors for boys and girls.  Girls wore yellow, pink and purple, and [...]

They aren’t thugs and goons! They just know how to handle these problems better than we do. They use tanks.

I read a story on Foxnews.com this afternoon that set me off.  It seems that there are couple of Chinese Americans that are so incensed by recent comments made by Jack Cafferty on CNN that they have decided to sue the network for 1.37 billion dollars.  Yes, that’s billion with a ‘B’.  Amazing.
Cafferty’s remarks were [...]

American Idol Results Show, April 23rd

The group songs have been a mess pretty much all season, and tonight was no exception.  The whole thing was a train wreck, but the girls were especially horrible in it.
I could not have liked Leona Lewis’ song any less.  Simon usually describes that kind of performance as ‘indulgent.’
I have a problem with Brooke not [...]

American Idol Top Six, April 22

Isn’t it wonderful to know that Idol is using green power at the finale?  I’m so sick of television self righteously pushing the green agenda while using copious amounts of energy on a medium that’s sole purpose is individual entertainment and gratification.  It would kind of be like McDonalds endorsing and promoting Jenny Craig in [...]

Exercise

I probably should have written about this aspect of my weight loss program much earlier.  I feel that exercise has been an indispensable part of my successful weight loss up to this point.  When I started this program, I also started walking about 30 minutes a day.  Soon I increased that to 45 minutes.  Now [...]

The Five: Or, How did a guy like that get a girl like that?

Growing up as a shy, overweight guy, I always wondered how the dating scene worked.  Most of the time, it made sense.  You would see the hunky captain of the football team dating a cheerleader, for example, or you would see an average guy with an average girl.  Usually, guys and girls of the same [...]