Quote of the Day

"I have monkeys in my pants."

- Robert Cusack admits to smuggling exotic animals from Thailand through LAX after the birds of paradise flew out of his luggage.

Another quote!

I didn't think I'd see anything else today that could top "I have monkeys in my pants." But in a comments thread on Fark.com, relating to this BBC article someone attempted to explain papal infallibility:

"In order to be infallible, the Pope must sit on his chair, press the button on the left armrest that activates the matrix of pylons in the room, which gather Divine Energy and then reflect it into his hat, from which it then goes into his brain and his mouth."

Hee.

Having been raised Catholic, it always staggers me that there are people out there - probably including other Catholics - who think that Catholics believe The Pope Is Always Right About Everything.

Gym classes don't work

Gasp! Most kids spend gym class standing around.

News flash, folks. If you're teaching sports, the kids are going to want to win at the sport they're playing. They're not there for fitness. If they want to win, the kids who are already fit and coordinated will spend most of the time running around with the ball. Kids who are slow and uncoordinated will be ignored as much as possible, because sending the ball their way is a sure way to ensure a turnover/missed out/something bad for your team.

Even with something like volleyball, where you rotate positions, when you suck, you cause more rotations, so you rotate quickly out of the active position you had and into a less active one, while a sporty person will anchor a position for a longer time.

When all you do in a softball game is swing and miss, swing and miss, and then stand in the far right outfield doing nothing, you don't get much exercise. And you learn to hate softball.

Nobody sees a problem with having History and History Honors classes, and some schools even offer Remedial levels. We need Remedial Gym. I would have loved Remedial Gym.