Oooh, ESPN has a new documentary out, Broke, about the crazy way professional athletes go broke so fast. "By the time they have been retired for two years, 78 percent of former NFL players have gone bankrupt or are under financial stress; within five years of retirement, an estimated 60 percent of former NBA players are broke." Looks really interesting.
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But if you really want to lose a lot of money, the fastest way might be to take the route of someone like Evander Holyfield, who is said in the film to have eleven children by nine women. You know what's probably more expensive than a failed car wash? Eleven kids, forever. Child support recurs over and over again in Broke, which gives an airing both to the athletes' complaints that women seek them out specifically to get pregnant and get rich and to the response that you can't very well throw your athlete status around to impress women in clubs and then claim they trapped you because of your athlete status. (I do wish they'd at least touched on the matter of birth control and whether that might be a logical way to avoid winding up supporting children you never intended to have. Because if not using birth control is part of athlete culture, that's noteworthy.)
As much as I HATE the Charmin bear commercials...right now we have back to back to back to back to back political ads. I'd love to see a bear show that he left pieces behind. And enjoy the go. And whatever. Static would be better. Fingernails on a blackboard would be refreshing.
OMG, a trifecta of cuteness: an orphaned wombat, kangaroo, and wallaby:
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SO CUTE.
That is a ridiculous level of adorable!
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"Women in Horror" Cake pops.
I think I'll take the set.
At this point most supporters of both sides are playing the lowered expectations game so hard as to claim that their guy is preverbal, and if they manage to speak in complete sentences, win!
You can blame GWB for that one. That was precisely the argument put forward by the MSM for why he "won" the debates.
Farmer eaten by his pigs: [link]
Tom, I think you need to Lee font that.
yes
Unless he was only partially eaten, and survived the energetic gnawing, I think. She'd be cool with that, right, Lee? Right?
NO
Pigs are dangerous.
Also - so happy for Scrappy's news about her mom.
And my happy news: I went to the doctor and I've lost 20 pounds!!!
But - for some reason my blood pressure has gone up. That's not supposed to happen.
And last night I banged my head on a corner - (I was shifting some pillows in my bed around and thought I'd adjusted them up to the wall and wham! hit my head.) It aches.
Did I think to ask the doctor about it?
Of course not.
I think I was still stunned by the weight loss news.
I need the advice of the Buffista Hivemind: have any of you folks been to a media event where cellular devices aren't allowed? I'm going to a Tim Burton double-feature which will also be screening a featurette on the new Frankenweenie, and the the theatre just sent out the following update:
"There will be a "no tolerance" policy on any electronic devices in the auditorium, which includes cell phones. Security personnel will be on hand to check for devices, so we encourage patrons to leave cell phones and other devices in their cars or at home for this event, or else they will have to be checked at the door."
I'm not thrilled at the idea of checking my phone, but I don't really have another option.
Man, car thieves are going to have a field day breaking into cars at that event.
