2006 has been an interesting year — I think there’s lots of room for improvement in 2007. Thank you very much to all that stopped by and helped this blog come a long way from the previous year.
Dec 312006
Five years ago today, on the side of an active volcano, beneath a 200 foot waterfall, deep in a rainforest in Costa Rica, my wife and I were married.
I hadn’t really stopped to reflect on the historical perspective of Saddam’s execution. But this seems about right.
Dec 312006
Random ITunes/IPod blogging, where I set ITunes to random shuffle my entire music collection (approx. 3400 songs) and list the first ten songs that come up:
Dec 302006
Flopping Aces has the entire video of the Saddam Hussein hanging. The resolution is pretty crappy and they miss the actual moment when Saddam’s head snaps in the noose — I’d give it 2 out of 10 stars. In fact, most of Saw II looked more realistic.
I had no idea that a “hit or two†would turn into thousands-upon-thousands of hits. Before writing about Ms. Rees, I was chugging along with my 1000 or so daily visitors to UrbanGrounds.
Dec 302006
Since becoming a recruiter in the US Army, my little brother has helped hundreds of young men and women achieve their dream of serving in the US Army. And of all those Soldiers that my brother put into the Army, not one of them had been killed in combat — until earlier this week.
Dec 302006
The first picture and images of Saddam’s final moments are starting to appear. Which is good — the people of Iraq need to know beyond any doubt that Saddam is really dead.
Dec 292006
The US is ensuring that Saddam is afforded much more dignity and respect than any one of his victims ever received
Of course, I don’t know why this would surprise anybody — after all, the leader of the Kosites — Markos “Kos” Moulitsas Zúniga — had this to say about three Haliburton contractors (US citizens) who were killed, burned, and hung from a bridge: Screw ‘em.
The first American test-tube baby, Elizabeth Jordan Carr, turned 25-years old today.
Bomani Jones at ESPN’s PAGE 2 makes a compelling case for Vince Young as the 2006 Athlete of the Year. Hey, you won’t get any argument out of me.
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