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FHS: Introducing the Double Down!OK, time now for our weekly Football Happiness Scale update. For those of you who missed the first week, Mike Schur and I invented a new scale for being a football fan. What we do is rank the teams in the order that we want them to win — with +16 being the team we want most to…
The JoeBlogs Top 10: Three InfomercialsAh, I used to write a lot about infomercials. Slap Chop. Hawaii Chair. The WaxVac. So many others. I miss those days, but I haven’t really seen one that has inspired me in a while. I’m still hoping. Anyway, as a bonus for you wonderful JoeBlogs readers, here are three of my…
700 Words on Albert PujolsWhen Albert Pujols was 16 years old, he moved from the Dominican Republic to Missouri to be with his father and grandmother. He didn’t know more than five words of English, and the woman who was assigned to be his English tutor at Fort Osage High School did not know five words of…
