Against stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.

My friend Sherry sent me this pic. What about this photo made her think of me??

I'm coming down with a cold. I mentioned that to my mother-in-law when she called this morning, and she gave me a sure-fire way to beat it. She told me to get some Vick's Vapo-Rub, rub it on the bottoms of my feet, put on socks and go to bed for a couple of days. She swears it will cure the cold.
I never would have thought of that.

As long as we're doing PSA's, I learned today what a "Melvin" is. Am I the only one who didn't know? Just in case you, too, are ignorant of this important social phenomenon, it's a wedgie, but from the front.
Combine a regular wedgie and a Melvin simultaneously and you have a "Mervin."
Hey, we're here to help.

Rick Reilly is the best sports writer alive today. He wins the annual award for sports journalism so consistently (11 times) that they might as well name the award after him. He wrote the column on the back page of Sports Illustrated from 1985 until June of this year when he switched over to ESPN The Magazine. Not coincidentally, I dropped my subscription to SI at the same time. Reilly's column now also appears on the ESPN web site. Here's an example of his writing, a brief story you really need to read.
Life of Reilly

The list for tonight...
Dumbest Move of 2008

But the more I thought about it, the more I realized there are just too many to choose from. Some well-deserving individual who gave it their all is sure to be left out, and that's just not fair. So in an effort to give credit where credit is due we'll create sub-categories.

Dumbest Move of 2008 By a Sports Figure

• Plaxico Burress, running back for the NY Giants, walks into a night club with a Glock in the waistband of his sweat pants. The gun starts to slide down his pants, he grabs it, the gun goes off and he ends up with a through-and-through wound to his thigh. But what earns him top spot on my list is that he was carrying that gun sans permit in NY, the state with the toughest gun laws in the country. Automatic felony with mandatory three and a half years of jail time. The Giants dropped him almost immediately, which means he also misses out on the $35 million contract he signed in September.
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The forecast here calls for rain on Christmas Day, the first time in 18 years. We had rain on Thanksgiving Day, the first time in 23 years. But complaining is not gonna happen, not with the weather goin' on where some of you live.

The new Clint Eastwood movie, El Torino, looks good. Opens Christmas Day. I might pay money to see it.

We're having a brief Christmas Eve service at Pathway tomorrow night. Singing, some Scripture and a brief devotional. Start promptly at 6 and and end no later than 6:45. You're invited.