Quote of the Day

The murals in restaurants are on

a par with the food in museums.

Peter De Vries

Quote of the Day

I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world

if everybody wished everybody else well.

Jennifer Joanna Aniston

Quote of the Day

Foolish writers and readers

are created for each other.

Horace Walpole

USA Swimming Ends King's Reign

The big news out of Colorado Springs is that Don King is out of USA Swimming.

A piece on Oregon Live by Wendy Owen lays it all out there. This article and the comments that follow paint a disturbing picture. Read it here.

I started to include parts of the story and a few of the comments, but changed my mind.

Y'all need to take a few minutes and read it all.

Quote of the Day

When buying and selling are controlled

by legislation, the first things to be

bought and sold are legislators.

Patrick Jake "P.J." O'Rourke

Quote of the Day

People do not believe lies because they

have to, but because they want to.

Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge

Spring Cleaning: Our disinfecting prowess is second to none!

Y'all may have noticed that I've started clearing out the old "stuff".

Teams/schools are probably tired of getting applicants for jobs posted months/years ago.

I know I'm tired of getting comments on posts from months/years ago.

Many of the old posts have dead links and pulled videos.

If there's something I've pulled that you just can't live without, you might try Google's "cached" feature.

I'll probably save all the Quote of the Day and Fishin' posts, but most of the rest is liable to be "culled" after a few months.

Weakly Demotivator

Quote of the Day (thanks MS)

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough

to maintain what I consider the most enviable

of all titles - the character of an honest man.

George Washington

Quote of the Day

It is just the little touches after the average

man would quit that make the master's fame.

Orison Swett Marden

Quote of the Day

Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do.

Irma Kurtz

Quote of the Day

If the only tool you have is a hammer,

you tend to see every problem as a nail.

Abraham Harold Maslow

Quote of the Day

True friends are those who really

know you but love you anyway.

Edna Buchanan

Quote of the Day

The public will believe anything,

so long as it is not founded on truth.

Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell

Quote of the Day

Formal education will make you a living;

self-education will make you a fortune.

Jim Rohn

Weakly Demotivator

Title IX Backlash

Girl soccer players in N.Y.C. will now be playing their high school season at the same time as boys' soccer and football. The threat of a Title IX lawsuit forced them to make the move from being a spring sport to becoming a fall one.

It seems there are plenty of the players, coaches, and parents who didn't want to make the switch. It was forced on them by a handful of people who threatened to nuke them - with Title IX.

Read more here.

Highlights:

In the fall, three players, from Bronx Science, Beacon and School of the Future, threatened the DOE with a Title IX lawsuit and got the NYCLU involved. The argument was that girls’ soccer players weren’t getting the same benefits of boys’ soccer players, who play their season in the fall. The PSAL is the only association in the state to hold its girls’ soccer season in the spring, due to field space and referee issues.

Fearing litigation, the DOE signed a deal with the NYCLU and the switch will take effect for the 2009 fall season.

“I don’t think it’s fair,” Newtown senior Kathy Cano said. “We’re the players. Why shouldn’t we get a say?”

Added Forest Hills junior Dalila La Commare: “We don’t have enough field space, we don’t have enough referees. We’re missing a lot of things.”

Detractors have wondered all along why three players’ needs should dictate the fortunes of more than 1,600 others. There were signs held up Saturday and plenty of anti-season change sentiment to go along with it. The change is supposed to get PSAL girls’ soccer players more exposure to college coaches, but, Sprance says, only a small percentage actually play in college and the others will not benefit from the move.

“Only because they want to,” Cano said, “we have to play in the fall?”

So, Dalila La Commare and Kathy Cano:

What does Title IX mean to you?

Quote of the Day

Slight not what's near, while aiming at what's far.

Euripides

Quote of the Day

There is no comparison between that which is

lost by not succeeding and that lost by not trying.

Sir Francis Bacon

Quote of the Day

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Ralph Waldo Emerson