Don't tell them the real reason - puh-leaze, ft?

Source, once in NFL:
"While at CU he started two non-profit organizations that focused on youths in grades 6-8 who “didn’t get to choose their financial background.” "

Do they get to choose the alcohol flavor from your "Kids who drink are cool" cooler?

Source, pre-NFL:
"As part of his community service for the misdemeanor conviction, Harris created a nonprofit organization to work with middle-school kids with troubled backgrounds."

A year's Roth IRA contribution and change

I beat the EAU.

Which doesn't make sense, because she is a lot prettier than me.

Than a lot of people, actually.

Maybe I'm worth more dead because I am ugly... like an incentive for the world to be beautified.

I had to select obese on one of the questions. Oy.

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Quick hands

This young man also holds the (unverified) masturbation record.

James Dobson has a book in the works to reach out to this special demographic.

shock'n y'all

The most patriotic man in America is a democrat.

Please do not tell Judd the Crud this.

Fatness by the numbers

So July will be my miracle month of getting back into shape. Why, just this morning I went spinning and had a light protein breakfast.

July 2nd
weight: 278.5 lbs
waist: 48.0 in
l. arm: 15.0 in
l. calf: 17.0 in

Here's the alarming thing about waist circumference: each inch gained is not the same.

For instance, assumed your spare tire is 1 inch high, and grows uniformly in a perfect circle outward. From 31 inches to 32 inches, the volume of fat added is 1*pi*(16^2 - 15.5^2) = 49.5 cubic inches. From 47 inch circumference to a 48 inch circumference, 1*pi*(24^2 - 23.5^2) = 74.6 cubic inches is added. In each case, the circumference only increased by one inch, but in the latter the fatness is more severe.

This is why the Battle of the Bulge requires entrenchment - yet, it is common that big results come quickly and then a plateau, so maybe a new perspective on physique-scaping should be that the first few inches lost should be seen as volume lost, to give a boost to self esteem (like a gym sock on a prom date).

My buddy wants to be at 235 by August 1st so he can get a 2 million dollar life insurance policy.

I'll beat him to 235 - my order of speed is being tracked by UPS.com as I type this.

-ft

Freedom of Speech

First Don Imus, and now this.

Granted, the video portraying this situation is very biased and probably edited cleverly, but if even a little bit of truth is maintained, this is scary.

Why the heck didn't the police contain the paraders better?

What is happening to the USA? Why didn't the paraders realize that he was exercising a freedom granted by the country THEY WANT TO JOIN?

I am not taking a stance on the immigration issue here, in a blog, because the anti-blogger blogs here. However, I think this film hints at the ugliness of humanity - to taunt someone when they are bleeding and handcuffed and pelt his car with projectiles is a heck of a way to say "let us show you our appreciation for your country's freedoms."

"And I'll have a chinchilla."