Are longer school days the answer?

A few days ago, President Obama suggested that we should have a longer school day and year for our students because we are supposedly falling behind other countries in areas such as math and science.  I have always wondered why people think this will suddenly make our children much smarter and more knowledgable in certain […]

The worst baseball stadium in the majors

On October 4th, our beloved Minnesota Twins will play their final regular season home game ever in the Metrodome.  All season long, people have been reminiscing about the last 27 years at the Dome and all the classic moments that have taken place in that sorry excuse for a baseball stadium. Seriously, can any stadium […]

Jimmy Carter is completely wrong

During an interview with NBC news last week,  the nightmarish president of the late 70’s, Jimmy Carter explained the outburst by representative Joe Wilson was mainly caused by racism. The following day, he reiterated his opinion that many people, who are opposed to Obama’s  policies, do not like the fact that a black man is […]

The bad AL central pennant race

As surely as the leaves turn, the temps cool and the sun sets earlier each day, we have another pennant race for our beloved Minnesota Twins. The Twinkies are creeping up on the first place Detroit Tigers, now only 4 games back at this moment with 16 games to play, Detroit has 18.  My question […]

Obama’s back to school speech is somewhat useless

In the last few days, there has been somewhat of an uproar over the speech that President Obama will be delivering to school kids. Many folks on the far right are criticizing the president for possibly using the speech to promote his own agenda.  These people need to settle down and just relax. I really […]