Erin Express

This weekends marks the first weekend for the shame that is "The Erin Express".

For those of you lucky enough never to have experienced it, the Erin Express is how the Philth celebrates St. Patrick's Day.

All of the college and post-college people take a bus tour around the various "Irish" bars in the Philth. I think it starts sometime in the mid-morning.

Everyone sips their wine coolers until some of them start feeling fiesty. Inevitably, a slap, pinch & tickle fight breaks out. It goes on for about a minute until someone uses their nails to scratch and the scratchee starts to cry. This in turn causes more people to cry and the whole Erin Express breaks up sometime in the early afternoon.

Yao Ming is not a hall of famer

He should not even be in the discussion. Its an absurd thought. Do not argue he was a 7 time all star- that was lame ass china voting for him, which completely negates any validity of the "all-star" argument in basketball.

He only played 4 complete seasons. Thats it- his whole career he played 4 full seasons. He had 3 half seasons, and 1 with 5 games.

His career average is 19pts and 9 rebounds- not even a double double from a guy who was 7'5''.

What a complete crock of shit if he gets in.

Separated at Birth Sports figures Part 10

Part 10 of the Separated at Birth Sports Figures, or athletes who look like celebrities (aka athlete celebrity look alikes).

Click here to see the previous versions.

George Blaney (UConn bball assistant coach) and Donald Rumsfeld

John Barry and Jay Glazer
Mel Kiper and Anthony Hearld
John Huntsman and Colin Cowherd

Douchiest College Rankings - Philadelphia Edition

A cursory glance at Philadelphia area colleges might cause you to think that Villanova is the douchiest college in the area. In the upset of this still very young century, this is not the case. LaSalle University upset the heavily favored Villanova Wildcats to take the top spot.

While both colleges consist mainly of spoiled white kids spending daddy's money, La Salle brings something extra to the table. LaSalle is located in the ghetto of north Philth, although the campus is pretty well walled off from the actual ghetto. Regardless, this inspires the whiter than white LaSalle kids to act all ghetto and tough. The Villanova kids at least realize that they're on the Main Line and not the 'hood.

The rest of the top 5:

1.) LaSalle
2.) Villanova
3.) University of the Arts
4.) Penn
5.) LaSalle (again)

WSJ - The New Art of Alimony

Recently I had the privilege of reading this absolutely fascinating article on alimony.

Once again, I'll say that I am a romantic at heart and I am all in favor of committed, monogamous, loving relationships. But there is no way in hell that I am ever signing a contract that financially cripples me for the rest of my life if we break up.

The article is kind of long so I have to assume that a lot of people won't read it.

A very quick word of warning to any ladies reading this. The article talks about how women who marry divorced men also suffer from his alimony payments. I never even thought about that until this article.

Just as an additional note, this Cracked.com article is how I found out about the WSJ article.