A Chin Chin Civics Lesson

Today is the 87th anniversary of the 19th amendment. For those of you who didn’t pay attention in civics class, the 19th amendment gave woman the right to vote. I’d like to celebrate this occasion by pointing out that just because you can vote, no matter what your gender is, doesn’t mean you should vote. Don’t go to the polls and vote for Mitt Romney cause you want a president who wears funny underwear, don’t vote for Baraka Obama cause he has a cool name.

If you don’t know who you should vote for, and by that I mean understand where candidates stand on issues that are important to you, spend the next election reading Chin Chin! and getting plastered. But lets celebrate the 19th amendment by having a drink in honor of all the women who are informed voters.

A Day At the Races

I’m spending a day at the track. Here’s to Sip One For Mom in the eighth.

Stop! That’s my purse!

Former NY Giants reciever Mark Ingram has been charged with breaking into a garage near Flint Michigan and stealing a purse. If convicted Ingram could face 10 years in prison (apparently stealing a purse is misdemeanor larceny, but breaking and entering is very much a felony), and will have sucessfully added to his rap sheet which includes an arrest for stealing a credit card (and a golf club, nice) from a Flint area golf course, as well as having been sentanced in Miami for being caught with $3,290 in counterfeit cash. Tip of the hat to the New York Times for keeping us up to speed on the dirty deeds of NFL retirees as well as the current players. Cheers to taking whatever you can get your hands on.

A Day Late, A Buck Short

Occasional Chin Chin! poster STP turned 28 yesterday. On my 28th birthday I hiked to a gorgeous Costa Rican waterfall during the day and got better acquainted with a cute German girl that night. STP had dinner with his dad, I’m sure that was nice.

So let’s drank to STP lasting for 28 years.

Buy Your Season Tickets Now

So Micheal Vick is headed off to the slammer and his NFL career is probably over. Which means its time to start the countdown to debut of the most exciting football player in the world in the Arena Football League. Go Shockwave!!

Here’s to you, Arena Football League.

It’s the little things in life

In my never-ending quest for intellectual supremacy I was reading this morning, as is my current trend since I’m on vacation, and stumbled across the answer to a question that has been plaguing me for years.  It turns out the corn we eat today is a gigantic freak evolving through thousands of years of natural and artificial selection.  As it is the original corn cobs were less than half an inch in length meaning I have been asking the wrong question all along.  The question should not have been where does baby corn come from, the question should have been were does this gigantic corn on the cob come from.  Anyways here’s to baby corn, it’s the delicious little things in life that make it worthwhile.

Drinking, its better than drugs…..

This is what drugs can do to you, one of the funniest sports interviews I have seen in a while

http://youtube.com/watch?v=_yTjebH2fLU

if you dont have the time to watch the whole thing the highlights come at about 1:30 when he gives his stats, around 7:30 when his phone rings, and the last minute or so when he goes completely insane.  Here is to alcohol, its better than drugs

New Orleans: All Better?

I went to the nyTimes website today, and a fleur-de-lis drew my attention to an ad informing me that I should come visit rebuilt New Orleans. Sounded nice, but I don’t have the PTO.

I scrolled down the page and an article informed me that A Billion Dollars Later, New Orleans is Still at Risk . I propose a toast to the Big Easy’s choice of advertisers.

Just a little rant

I normally try to keep from personal rants on this blog but this one just has to come out.  I read on tuesday that congress is going to have a talk with David Stern about the current situation with the NBA and gambling.  I find this to be both amazing and unacceptable.  When President Bush wanted to unilaterally go to war with Iraq congress apparently didnt have the time to discuss the decision, a discussion that potentially could have brought out the fact that the evidence of WMDs was fabricated and saved us from the current sticky situation we find ourselves in with Iraq.  I understand that the Patriot Act was passed during a time of heightened fear and anger in this country and can see why nobody took the time to review it when it was first passed, however when the time came to reauthorize it with many of the drawbacks and questionable sections of the act widely known in this country congress again lacked time to properly discuss the reauthorization and instead decided to go ahead and reauthorize the act that has done more damage to the freedoms of people in this country than any terrorist attack ever could.  While President Bush has been steadily usurping powers that once belonged to the congress thereby offsetting the system of checks and balances that was so wisely set up by our forefathers, congress was too busy investigating steroids in baseball to take note, or defend themselves.  In the original blueprint for this country the government was to be responsible to the people ideally making a situation like this impossible, the problem is the people in this country are more interested in Sports and Hollywood than our countries global actions.  I can’t help but feel that we are moments away from started a World War under the disguise of a congressional inquiry into teen pop stars that grow up to become drug addicted psychos.  If that happens I am moving to Canada where the total absence of professional sports and celebrities provides them immunity from making such egregious errors.  Today we drink because it kills brain cells, cheers.

When keeping it real goes wrong…..

Apparently former all star Jose Guillen still plays baseball in the minor leagues.  This is noteworthy not because he may have been making a run at Ricky Henderson’s all time record for oldest guy ever to play baseball but because last night he charged the mound, with his bat.  Yes you read that right, after leading off the game with a home run he was hit in the calf with a pitch in the second inning.  Because he always keeps it real, Offerman (no way he is on steroids this is too sensible a reaction) then chose to run at the pitcher, take a swing at his legs, pull back and swing for the face while hitting the catcher in the back of the head on his backswing.  Offerman was thrown out of the game, will probably earn a lifetime suspension, and was arrested in the clubhouse shortly afterwards.  In a matter of about half an hour he went from hitting a home run to being in jail and is likely to never again play the game that has been his livelihood for the past twenty years.  Let’s drink to keeping it real, no video but heres a picture of the rampage