The No Kool-Aid Zone Blog
I Don't Drink The Kool-Aid. For Anybody.
Continuing the ten coolest sporting moments I’ve witnessed live: Kerri Strug’s Gold Medal Vault, 1996 Atlanta Weird that three of my top ten involve Olympics, which I’m not a huge fan of, but they all were feats of tremendous courage and fortitude. The Epic in Miami – This was possibly the greatest football game I’ve…
Read MoreThe Top Ten Sporting Events I Have Seen Live (no, not in person, but on TV…silly). They are listed in no particular order, and they are my list, meaning that some of them may have no meaning to others. Deal with it. Since I’m adding video for all of these I can, this is the…
Read MoreAs I head toward that benchmark, arriving four weeks from yesterday, I’m going to have a little bit of fun making some lists. You may think my lists funny, stupid, ridiculous; I don’t care, it’s my life, hence my lists. Some will be more serious, and others will be very light fare. I commence with…
Read MoreRand Paul, Republican Senate candidate from Kentucky, has become one of the “poster children”, of sorts, for the Tea Party movement. It’s not surprising, of course, that the media paints the Tea Party as a bunch of fringe kooks—we’ve come to expect such tripe from the lapdog media over the years. Disclaimer: are there kooks…
Read MoreThe Giving Pledge is a new movement founded by mega-billionaires to give away sizeable chunks of their fortunes to charity. Good for them. It is a little funny—and sad—that in the AJC article, Ted Turner feels compelled to state the exact amount of his contributions, and to call the giving of them “one of (his)…
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