That. Was... AWESOME!!

As you'll see in the following video, Keith Ballard of the Atlanta Thrashers Florida Panthers is quite upset with himself about the goal that was just scored on his team.

Or is he actually upset with his goalie? You be the judge!



Okay no, he was just upset with himself. But he has some awful aim. I know whose name I wouldn't enter into the All Star Game skills competition.

[NHL.tv]

Thanks to Michael Phelps, Poor People Will Get to Eat Breakfast

About 3,800 pounds of cereal was dumped on the San Francisco Food Bank recently. Most of it was from Kellog's with a certain Olympic gold medalist who was caught bong-handed. As everyone knows, Kellog said it would no longer sponsor Michael Phelps after the incident.

Apparently, that left only one problem: what to do with the boxes of Corn Flakes and Frosted Flakes bearing Phelps' toothy grin. The answer seemed pretty clear two weeks ago when the local Food Bank took delivery of nearly 2 tons of the cereal.
The man behind the food bank, Paul Ash, says that cereal is one of the items they don't usually see.

"It's a very tough item to get," Ash said. "In the last six or eight years, it's become very hard to get ahold of."

The sudden appearance of about 3,800 pounds of flakes would indicate that someone was trying to dump some unwanted stock.

To me, this is the best thing Michael Phelps as done. Big whoop he can swim and won eight medals that no one will care about until the next Olympics. When's the last time someone was responsible for donating 2 TONS of cereal to a food bank? And, all he had to do was take a hit off a bong! That's special! [SF Gate]

Really? In 2009?

The state of New Jersey needs blood. Blood donations center have been popping up everywhere asking for donations. New Jersey needs blood bad! Just not THAT bad...

Dustin Weinstein is a 20-year-old sophomore at Montclair University. He wanted to help the cause and donate blood. Last November, there was a Red Cross Blood Drive at his campus and so he tried to donate blood. He was denied. Why? Because he is gay.

Here's the FDA's IR-rationale:

MEN WHO HAVE HAD SEX WITH OTHER MEN ACCOUNT FOR THE LARGEST SINGLE GROUP OF BLOOD DONORS WHO ARE FOUND HIV POSITIVE BY BLOOD-DONOR TESTING. BY ELIMINATING THAT GROUP, THE RISK OF TRANSMITTING HIV IS DIMINISHED.

Okay, that makes some sense. But it isn't any proof that all gay people are HIV positive. When you donate blood, it is tested for the HIV virus (among other viruses and diseases). So why would you turn down gays?

The rule has been in effect since the 1980s. Time for change. If I or any of my friends or family needed blood and the only blood available was a gay person, I'd gladly take it! Gay people need blood and straight people need blood, as long as its free of disease, anyone who is dieing would take it in a split second.

How do you know if a person is gay or not? Well, if you have ever donated blood, you have to answer a questionnaire. If you say that you are gay, you will, apparently, be denied. But what is to stop someone from lying on that questionnaire? It also asks if you have been to a European country in the past 6 months. If you have, you will be denied (due to mad cow disease). Again, what is preventing people from lying?

Hence, I say that everyone, gay and straight, lie on that questionnaire. Answer the questions that will best help you help the state and donate blood and save lives. F**k the FDA. [Bergen Record]