Archive for April, 2008

Downtown Asbury Park Revving Up for the Summer

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

The Asbury Park Press ran a story this morning that talked about how vendors located on Asbury Park’s Cookman Avenue were gearing up for what they believe will be a very successful summer season. From the article:
For one thing, some new stores are coming as promised to his already active 600 block. Asbury Bark, […]

Even In 2008, World War II Idiocy Remains

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Hard to believe that a story like this would surface in the year 2008, but here it is: Candidate speaks at Hitler birthday party. Come on. COME ON! You mean to tell me that the guy running for this Congressional seat - a guy named Tony Zirkle - walked into that […]

Pathetic Advertisement: Presonal Support

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

Yahoo Mail recently upgraded its e-mail services so that you can now use a quasi-Microsoft Outlook type of screen to view your mail. There are many benefits to having this type of set-up, but one of the drawbacks is the automatic advertisements that are embedded in different areas of the screen. Alright, so […]

Collegiate “Deep Thinkers” Debunked

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

While trolling over the internet, I came across an excellent essay by George Leef that I had to share. For those of you with an interest in college life and higher education overall, you have to read this essay. It’s a great combination of interesting, biting truth regarding the end results that we […]

New Home Sales Drop - Again

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

USA Today is reporting that new home sales have dropped - again - to their lowest point in some sixteen and a half years. Well…duh. Is anyone surprised by this news? We have a horrible economy and that certainly isn’t helping, but has anyone actually looked at the price of a new […]

Graduated High School? Good! Time for…Nothing?

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

MSNBC.com posted an article today that I found surprising and interesting. Apparently some of America’s highest-regarded institutes of higher learning are suggesting that graduating seniors take a year off before they start college. Fascinating! From the article:
It’s called a “gap year.” And while it’s been a common and popular rite of passage […]

Good Grief…When Will It Ever End?

Monday, April 21st, 2008

As I type this, I’m sitting in my professional development class on fund raising for nonprofit organizations. The class started about a half an hour ago and so far the topic of discussion has been the completely unsurprising New York Times article that was published yesterday regarding the television military news analysts (former army […]

Congratulations to The Biggest Loser: Ali!

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

Although this post is a few days late, I just wanted to say congratulations to this year’s winner of NBC’s The Biggest Loser: Couples - Ali! In the end I wound up rooting for Kelley, but the transformations that the three finalists went through were absolutely amazing. And an extra congratulations to […]

Pope Benedict XVI: The Rock Star!

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

This post may only be relevant to my fellow Catholics, but if you’ve been watching the Papal visit coverage anywhere on television, you likely have seen the rock star-like response that Benedict has received everywhere that he’s visited so far. I just watched him enter St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City and not […]

Bill Maher is a Scumbag

Friday, April 18th, 2008

Anyone who is unfortunate enough to watch this self-righteous loser’s show on HBO (a channel that my apartment will hopefully be canceling on May 1st), knows that Bill Maher is a jerk. He’s the type of arrogant, pompous prick who thinks that his thoughts are better than everyone else’s and that - because he’s […]

A New Howard 101 Friday Line-Up

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Mercifully, the powers that be at Sirius Satellite Radio and the Howard Stern Channels have decided to give us a better line-up of programming on Fridays on the Howard 101 channel. Although they will still be replaying the near-unlistened-to (and unlistenable) Mastertape Theatre on Howard 100, there will be live programming on Howard 101 […]

The Cost of College Textbooks

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Minding the Campus is a great website that keeps an eye on the many oddities that seem to take place at college campuses. You know these oddities - the private school that believes they do not have to follow American law, the public school that believes they can restrict a student’s right to freely […]