Letter of Regret

Dear Coach Whittingham,

As a fan of the Brigham Young University Football program, please allow me to formally apologize for and in behalf the actions of a few fellow fans, players, and students directed towards your organization.

We wish to express our gratitude for such a wonderful rivalry between two excellent football teams that has generated hundreds of thousands of fans, memories and revenue dollars for the greater Salt Lake area. Please disregard our blatant disregard of sportsmanship when our players call your team, organization and university 'classless', or incite that your team is an unworthy opponent. We seem to overlook the devastating loss from last year or thrice escaping embarrassment by the skin of our teeth in recent games. Never mind our own fans and students who physically harassed your wife and daughter after the game; but yet take the time and effort to publicly reprimand those who verbally 'assault' us at Rice-Eccles stadium. Please try to overlook the fact that we refer to your school as a second-class school full of drunks and godless heretics (despite our school being a private Christian organization which teaches us not to judge), when you school population is, in-fact, over half LDS.

Coach, football is a great sport. If I may, the greatest sport on this earth. We hope that you will continue to better the athletes of this fine game, despite our poor attitudes. We hope you will continue to ethically fuel this great rivalry for years to come, despite our childish antics. Please welcome us back next year for a great game - and we pray that you will not run us into the ground; God knows you have every right.

Sincerely,

BYU Fans

PS - If Max Hall were actually consistent enough to warrant even a second glance for the Heisman, and I actually got a vote; I'd drop him from the ballot for his incredibly brainless and childish blunder.

Nine to Five

Is it really impossible to find worth-while things to do between the hours of nine and five? Is that an unreasonable request? Most people have aspirations to find a job that will guide them to riches, early retirement, nice houses and the easy life. All I want is a job that will challenge me to work harder and be better then I was yesterday; something that, when completed, I can look back upon and be proud of. Proud to have been a part of the job, proud to have changed someone's life, proud to have worked my tail off to make this rock we live on a better place.

Then I will expect the riches and a nice house. But no retirement, there are things to be done here.

(847) 497-0648

I have a google voice number now. It is quite possibly the coolest thing that's happened since I had a rootbeer float for breakfast.


Don't mock my float, or I'll block you from my google voice number.

Call me totally nutty, but...

"Former U.S. President George W. Bush says multilateral diplomacy is the key to resolving the standoff over North Korea's nuclear program.During a speech in Seoul, South Korea Wednesday, Mr. Bush said the six-nation talks are "the best way to bring peace to the Korean peninsula."The United States, China, Japan, Russia and South Korea have been negotiating with North Korea since 2003 to convince the communist regime to abandon its nuclear weapons program in exchange for economic aid.(http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-10-14-voa12.cfm)"

Okay, I know this is a totally crazy idea, but why not just shut down our nuclear weapons program? It seems like everyone else would be more willing if the country who was asking everyone to disarm wasn't stockpiling their own nuclear arsenal. I understand why we have enough firepower to blow a whole in the earth, but I don't understand why the U.S. thinks anyone will listen to them while we have a gun pointed to their head.

Point #2: If someone launches a warhead at us, we're screwed, right? There is nothing that will prevent a catastrophic event on our soil. So the entire purpose of having the warheads is to screw the other guy before we go down. If we truly wanted peace, we would abandon that mentality and disarm our own program while we ask for the same of others.

Or we can let everyone armor up and hope no one has a hot trigger finger. I live in Idaho, so either is okay with me.

Politically Stupid

I am relatively new to the political scene, only really having an opinion of my own for the last few years. However, in my ideological youth I have started to realize that politics seems to only be driven by hate, and not ideas; which is something I cannot understand. I don't understand why some one's background, education level, religious faith and ideal system makes them less worthy of a good idea then the next. I am from Chicago, raised in an entirely different world than my wife; she was raised on a dairy farm in Southern Idaho. Yet, somehow we seem to come together and live a happy life built on mutual respect for one another's ideas (well, that and the fact that she is my wife and could very easily beat me up).

People are not dumb because they think differently - a little caveat I picked up in 8th grade political science. A class by the way, that indoctrinated me in the ways of the Democratic Party, later I went to one of the most conservative universities in all the land (enough of the right to even make my father speak up). Yet I can still see the best of both worlds and value the opinion of both parties. Call me crazy, but I thought that was the point.

One of my favorite writers summed it up like this: "You hate us because you think, we think you're stupid. We hate you because we think you're stupid." An unfortunate observation of American Politics.

Our Fathers would be proud.

Laureate this

The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded 89 times to 119 Nobel Laureates between 1901 and 2008 – 96 times to individuals and 23 times to organizations. Among the prestigious list; Barack Obama, who has been tirelessly working on the world stage to broker peace for 3 years since he began his U.S. Presidential campaign.

Wait, I think I typed that wrong. Or lost my sense of time. Did I just say three years? I must have meant thirty. It must be 2039, and since his time in the White House, former President Obama has been traveling the world giving peace talks and bringing people together with his wining smile and paparazzi groupies.

Nope, I was wrong. It's still only been three years since the world even knew who Barack Obama was. But I guess his half-a-dozen speeches on world peace were so powerful as to warrant a Nobel Peace Prize. Good news! Next year Norway is handing them out at the Miss Universe contest. Every girl who wishes for world peace goes home a Laureate!

The Pop Culture phenomenon continues.

Things Overlooked

My thought for you today is on the importance of the souls around you; which is something I don't think I ever really understood until I was married. I feel as though I have usually understood my purpose in life as it related to those around me and normally recognized the worth of those who were a part of my life. However, I am beginning to realize how special each soul is. My wonderful wife gave up many things for me. She was willing to change her way of living to match mine; from the career that she was to pursue, down to the TV shows that she now considers her favorite. It's the little things that I used to overlook; she watches my stupid political drama because I like it, and although I know she doesn't really care for it - if someone asks her what TV shows she likes, she will list that show in with her others.

Sacrifice is an amazing litmus test for Character; if the people you interact with are willing to sacrifice for you, you know they love you. Who knows why, but they do. And that love cannot be taken for granted or overlooked, its much too precious. In my case, its the beautiful woman whom I wake up next to every morning; I must thank God for that. Who is it in your life? Who is watching your stupid TV show? Not sure? Just take a look at the little things.