What Possesses You?

So, it's been a while since I last blogged. Dead week and Finals week will do that to you. I've just been burned out. But I have have some random musings running through my mind of late, and almost all of them come back to one basic question-- what possesses people to do these things?

For starters... who invented bowling, and what possessed them to do so. We can ask this about almost every sports... but I want to know who had so much time on their hands to lay down 75 feet of wood, then place 10 wooden sticks at one end of it, and hurl a cannonball at the sticks?

And are Canadians so enviornmentally aware, or restricted resourcefully that they only have 5 sticks and hurl a shotput?

How much drinking was involved to invent golf? How much drinking was involved in the invention of any sport?


Explain this one to me. People get overly offended by mention of Nazis and the sight of swaztikas. Yet, there is an abundant population in this nation who are broud of being "rednecks".

I gotta say, it's a two-way street. Either the historical standing of both is acceptable, or it's not for either.

I know there are still some sick and demented people who believe the Nazi was the right way. And I feel the same way about people who brandish the Stars and Bars of the Confederacy.

Why? Because the Nazi Party and the Confederacy were founded on similar principles-- that there is a supreme race. In case you missed it, there is a very well-versed document in Washington, D.C. that reads "...all men are created equal." Perhaps it is only the law of this land, but it is widely accepted internationally, as well. Therefore, if you support what the Confederacy stood for in the middle of the 19th century, you are no better than Hitler and his Aryan ways.

I can't understand why we permit such a travesty. We permit people to display the Stars and Bars-- how does it differ from a swaztika? Ask someone of African-American discent how they feel about the Conferdate Flag... you'll get the same answer if you ask a Jew about a swaztika.


Speaking of possessed... what is up with Quinn Snyder? I swear he is controlled by his hair. He looks like the little Dutch boy from hell. He looks like he stuck his finger in a dyke-- if you know what I mean. Now that Gene Keady has retired, Snyder has the worst hair in college basketball.


What possesses people to be so rude? It only takes an extra second to be courteous. You should take pride in people's accomplishments, not try to render a dark picture about it. And of course, is takes less muscles to smile than it does to frown. Cheer up, people. Be nice. And enjoy life.


...And finally from the WTF file... Has anyone ever questioned my students are given final exams? Seriously, why make us memorize everything you taught us during the semester? In the real world, if we don't know the answer-- we can always ask... or better yet, find a book and look up the answer. Who are these teachers that force us to take finals? It just doesn't make any sense to me.


If I don't blog before then, enjoy the holiday season. Happy Winter, Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah, Happy Boxing Day, Enjoy Kwanzaa, Have a Tip-Top Teht, a Solemn and Dignified Ramadan, and of course a Happy and Safe New Year!