Bag of Randomness

  • For those of you that watched Hard Knocks last night, has anyone in the history of every tried to call their grandmother faster than Vontae Davis?  The guy was reaching for his phone even before Jeff Ireland finished the sentence in which he was telling him he was being traded.
  • I was at a Fidelity Investments branch the other day filling out paperwork to move a 401k to a rollover IRA.  Part of the paperwork included my middle initial, part of it didn’t.  When I was asked for my signature, knowing sometimes these things can be pretty particular, I asked if I needed to include my middle initial.  The reps reply, “If you want to, it’s W.”  I guess he was nervous and was trying to be overly kind, but I think I could have figured out the first initial of my middle name on my own.
  • This article states that although Lubbock may not be a city that values sex all that much, they are pretty friendly by tweeting standards.
  • Possible repost, but this would be a great place to watch a movie.
  • The Indian population (not the Native Americans, the ones from South Asia) is definitely growing in the U.S. and I wonder how engaged they are as a group with elections.  With rising GOP stars like South Carolina Gov Nikki Haley and Louisiana Gov Bobby Jindal I wonder if they lean right.
  • I didn’t know an Idiocracy spinoff was in the works.
  • What Happened To 2001’s Budget Surplus?
  • Twitter No Longer Displays Which App Posted a Tweet 
  • Boy Wears Braces for 11 Years, Sues Orthodontist
  • ‘Avengers’ Alternate Opening – a flash forward
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Mapping Distribution of Income by Religious Belief

It’s no secret that the distribution of wealth is inequitable in the United States across racial, regional and socio-economic groups. But there is a distinct variance among and within Americas faiths as well.

(Click the image to see the large version from the source)

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Bag of Randomness

  • WifeGeeding made a trip to our local Wal-Mart Supercenter last night and informed me not one cart was available.
  • I feel pressured to say Wal-Mart Supercenter and not Super Wal-Mart because I a former coworker would always correct me and accuse me of changing the store name.
  • Speaking of Wal-Mart: Target Cheaper Than Wal-Mart As Gap Widest In Two Years
  • Now that the Red Sox have all sorts of cap room available, I bet you will see Josh Hamilton in a home jersey at Fenway next year.  Personally, I wouldn’t miss him, he’s too much of a headcase and inconsistent.
  • I saw one of our local news stations doing a feature on health code violations at popular restaurants the other night.  Seriously, they do this at least once a year, and it’s such low hanging fruit . . . I just expect more out of investigative journalism.
  • I was in the post office the other day and a mother was letting her little daughter go crazy and from time to time correct her in loud Spanish.  However, once outside the building, she was correctly her softly in English.  #confused
  • I always use to make fun of former Dallas Cowboys offensive coordinator Ernie Zampese’s addition to cigarettes.  In the latest MMQB, Zampese and his doctors claim that his stroke somehow flip a switch in his brain which causes him to no longer crave a cigarette.
  • Is Skip Bayless the worst thing to ever come out of Dallas?
  • Jerry Jones has been criticized by the local media for not drafting ‘troubled’ wide receiver Randy Moss and really missing out on an incredible player . . . and the same media is criticizing Jones for drafting ‘troubled’ wide receiver Dez Bryant.  You’re damned if you do, you are damned if you don’t.
  • How on earth could the Cowboys let the Dez Bryant rules and restrictions out?
  • So many folks in the area wonder why Jerry Jones keeps doing Papa John’s commercials.  I guess they forget he owns a 49% stake in over 70 franchises in the area.
  • MTV has their own fantasy election website.
  • Maybe it’s because no one has really invited me to be a part of a fantasy football league, and I’m not asking anyone to, but I kind of think of fantasy football as something of the past or just for guys in their 20’s.
  • There’s been a crazy amount of high school football being televised on ESPN as of late.
  • Speaking of high school football, the here’s a top ten ranking.  Two of the top ten teams are in the DFW area.  Surprisingly, at least to me, Dallas Skyline outranks Southlake Carroll.
  • I admire you, Bill Nye, but at least we don’t live in Turkey.
  • Video of lava being poured on six feet of ice
  • YouTube – “Now, how would you feel, Mrs. Armstrong, if it turned out – of course nobody knows – but if it turns out that your son is the first man to land on the moon? What, how do, how would you feel?”
  • Man Killed While Trying to Create Bigfoot Sighting
  • A great back to school photo
  • Seriously, it’s the last straw
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