Overrated: Libraries

Things That Are Overrated: Installment #3 Pretty but irrelevant Libraries This rant can be a little controversial.  I think we should get rid of all libraries.  Yep, just get rid of them!  I know there are great memories for some of you and even recent memories for some of the moms out there who took their kids to story time at the local library, but in today’s day and age libraries... [Read more]

Not Overrated: NCAA Tournament

And it begins… The SuperBowl is great… opening day is awesome… but nothing is like the NCAA Tournament and especially the first four days and two rounds.  Despite CBS’s overt efforts to destroy the tournament with Billy Packer, Greg Gumbel and terrible switches between games, this remains the best days in sports overall.   Luckily Directv has saved us with their package... [Read more]

Overrated: Scones

Mmmm... dry scones Things That Are Overrated: Installment #2 Scones   Dry.  Brittle. Crumbly.  Four bucks at Starbucks.   People try to put fruit in them but the fruit just ends up tasting like those red and green things that people put in fruit cake.  Which would be another thing that is overrated, if anyone rated it highly to begin with.   Scones remind me of bland, tasteless, lifeless... [Read more]

Overrated: Cal Ripken, Jr.

Cal weeps   Things That Are Overrated: Installment #1      Cal Ripken, Jr.   The famous rant that has cost me much derision, scorn & contempt…  I’m not sure what exactly being “much maligned” means but I think that I am that as well because of my stance on Cal Ripken.  So, now I will write words that will surely come back to haunt me.  Cal Ripken is overrated. ... [Read more]