For the Fellas!

This one is for the fellas. I found it on Collegehumor.com and though it was hilarious. That's right I am a 30 year old married father and still enjoy college humor! Click here for the video.

Honoring Lindsay Lohan!

In honor of Lindsay Lohan, your man Moe Green is glad to announce that he too will be sporting an alcohol monitoring bracelet for the next week. The bracelet will be wired to a central monitoring department that will notify all local bars when my blood alcohol level either drops under.01 or is dangerously close to dropping under.01. That's right, it's not a misprint I am wearing my bracelet to make sure I can stay over .01 for an entire week. I like to think of it as a dual homage to both Ms. Lohan and the movie Speed. Much like the how the bus in the movie would explode if it went under 60 MPH I am going to act as if my body will explode it my BAC drops under the legal limit. I look forward to this tough challenge.



In a other Hollywood news the two actors playing Billy Martin's ears in the ESPN miniseries the Bronx is Burning were involved in an altercation outside of the Las Vegas nightclub Tryst with several patrons after a long night of celebrating their recent success. Although details are sketchy at this time it is believed that the two actors who were struggling until recently were demanding a certain table that high rollers were already at and one thing led to another. Calls to both actors representatives went unanswered, but as soon as any more details are released I will let you know.

Shaq's Big Challenge!

I don't know if anybody has been watching this show on ABC, but I have to give Shaq all the credit in the world for trying to pull this off. I agree most of reality tv is crap, but if you can get past all the wife swapping and English nannies coming to the rescue of bad parents once in a while you can find a diamond in the ruff such as Shaq's Big Challenge.

Just to give you a little background the show is focused on six kids in middle school who are morbidly obese and thrust into a program where they are provided with dietitians personal trainers and a swift kick in the ass from the big man once in a while. The kids original weight ranges from anywhere near three hundred pounds to about two twenty with the average body fat percentage in the mid thirties. Scary stuff!

The crazy part as you watch the show is not the weight of just these kids, but how many other fat kids there are in the school. I can remember being in middle school and having maybe one or two fat kids running around, now it looks like about fifty percent of the kids are obese. Some of these kids can't even do one push up.

The good part of the show is that not only is Shaq trying to help these kids, but also trying to change the way the entire state of Florida deals with their physical education requirements. I really have to give him credit, because it is not like he just lent his name to a tv show and is trying to make a quick buck, he really seems interested in helping the kids and has been on the show throughout the season visiting homes and meeting with school officials. In addition to to try to make gym a required subject which it is currently not, Shaq and his team are also trying to redo the lunch menu to incorporate healthy foods rather than hot dogs, tater tots and a whole assortment of deep fried and fattening foods.

I don't think we realize just how much of a problem childhood obesity is becoming a problem and how not only is going to affect these kids lives but it also is going to affect our nations health care system as a whole as the kids get older and develop more and more health problems. My hat is off to Shaq for really putting his money where his mouth is and starting up a good cause. Although they started off with six kids they had about 40 kids voluntarily working out after school. Good job again Shaq and us Laker fans miss you big time. By the way the show can be seen on ABC on Tuesday's at 9 pm.

Long Time Coming!

I always keep making the same promise to myself that I am going to keep up with this blog and then it just never happens. So with two weeks off for vacation and some good events I hope to stick to my promise this time. Here are the events that have been capturing my eye in the the past few weeks in no particular order:

Crooked NBA Ref:

This past week 13 year veteran NBA ref Tim Donaghy was named as having possibly shaved points in the NBA due to overheard wiretap conversations among Gambino crime family members. While it comes to no surprise to me that this happened, what does come to a surprise to me is that NBA officials had knowledge that Donaghy was betting big money on football games and gave him a stern warning. No pun intended on "Stern"! Why in the name of God would the NBA put themselves in this position? Anyone with any knowledge of gamblers knows that it is only a matter of time before this man gets in a big enough hole that the sharks are going to eat him up and make him use his job to help pay back his debt. Shame on Mr. Donaghy, however I think the NBA is getting off too easy here. Let me share everybody the trouble and tell you how the story will end. Donaghy turns rat to save his own ass, cries publicly and apologizes, bad men got to jail, Donaghy takes up residence in small town outside Madison, Wi. On a personal note I would like to find Mr. Donaghy, for I am sure he owes me at least a couple of hundred bucks.

Hillary, Obama and Fundraising:

While I do not claim to be a political genius at all, in fact in recent years I have been finding my self less interested in politics than ever before as we are fed the same crap by these clones that all sound the same. I do have feel we need to change the way are politicians run their campaigns and how and more how much money they spend to reach these powerful positions. I recently read in the paper that during the second quarter Obama and Clinton have raised 34 and 33 million dollars respectfully for each of their campaigns. Now what is troubling to me is over the course of the next 17 months or so we are going to be bombarded with bad commercials urging us to vote for the candidate who will do the most for the public, while the whole time they are wasting hundreds of millions telling us why they are better. I just can't see how this country can sit back and let this happen. Not while we still are no closer to rebuilding the gulf coast, poor people are dying over simple curable diseases, children are hungry and soldiers are coming back missing limbs and broke.

Call me an idealist, but what I think we should do is cap the limit a candidate can spend on a campaign much the same way several sports organizations have the salary cap. I fell we can kill two birds with one stone with this solution. First it will cut down the amount of candidates who get elected using money given to them by big corporations and then spend the next four years pushing through bad legislation that will keep those same companies happy and help the politicians pay off their debts. Remember there is no money in politics only greed and power. Second maybe we can allow donations to still come in, however you just donate to the government and not a specific candidate, this way the money can be used to help feed children and other good causes such as better health care for vets and rebuilding the gulf coast. How nice would it be to have one candidate with balls stand up and say this is my plan this is my goal we will have three debates and no bad commercials.

Team Continuum:

Once again I would like to let everyone know I am going to be running this years ING New York City Marathon on Nov. 4 as part of Team Continuum. For those of you who don't know Team Continuum is an organization that donates money to cancer patients and their families to help pay some bills. I would like to thank those of you who have already donated and remind those who didn't you can make your donation here by typing in "Maver" in the upper right hand corner. I am trying to raise $2,500 and would appreciate any support. Also if you have already donated don't forget to tell anybody else who you think me be interested in the cause. I am glad to report my training is going great and I am sure I will be reading to go come November. It is a bit of a sacrafice and tough on the body, but I really do believe this is a great cause.

See everybody again later this week and thanks to all the family and friends who shared Nathaniel's christening with us this past Sunday. We hope everyone enjoyed it as much as we did!