Where's My Hovercraft?

When I was in college, I subscribed to both the Dallas Morning News and Dallas Times Herald newspapers.  I read both every morning before going to my 8 am class.  Guess I've always been a morning person.  My main reason for getting both papers was the sports sections.  The Morning News had Randy Galloway and David Casstevens as columnists.  The Times Herald had Skip Bayless and Blackie Sherrod.  All were very good writers and seemed to have changed papers a couple of times before the Times Herald finally went under.  I always looked forward to Blackie Sherrod's Sunday column titled Scattershooting.  Each column began with the phrase - "Scattershooting while wondering whatever happened to..." and was just a collection of random thoughts and observations.

So, with respect to Mr. Sherrod:

Scattershooting while wondering whatever happened to Blackie Sherrod.

Scattershooting refers to shotguns for those non-western readers.

Remember when Popular Science said that "the internet is the pet rock of the 90's?"


Popular Mechanics predicted that helicopters would become so cheap and easy to fly that they would replace cars by the year 2000.


Alvin Toffler's Future Shock predicted the computer would reduce the average American's work week to 30 hours or less.  With unemployment at 10% and rising, we may be close.  Doesn't take too many zero hour work weeks to offset those 60 hour ones.


Why is it always 75 year old fry cooks who win the lottery?  And why do they always say they will still go to work on Monday?  Shouldn't a psychic win at least once?


Why would anyone making more than $250,000 a year vote for Obama?  A better question, how could anyone that stupid make $250,000 or more a year?  If you want to help the unfortunate, give to the cause you believe in.  Does anyone, anyone with a brain anyway, believe that giving your money to the federal government to help others, actually helps others?  Well, if you count government employees and bureaucrats, I guess it does help others.  Is that what you intended?

Colin Powell, how is endorsing Obama for president just because he "looks like you" not a racist act.  Or have you been lying about your beliefs for the past 20 years?  Especially over a member of your own political party and FELLOW SOLDIER!!  Liar or racist, tough choice.

Remember when kids played basketball, baseball, and football without adult supervision and always kept score?  And learned more from losing than winning.  Mainly that it was much more fun to win!  And don't taunt your opponents or do a dance after a score.  Like Tom Landry told Drew Pearson, "act like you've been there before."

I miss Tom Landry. And Bear Bryant.  I hope Joe Paterno and Mack Brown never retire.  Remember when a reporter asked Paterno if he was interested in an NFL job?  He answered, "and leave college football to people like Jimmy Johnson and Barry Switzer?  Never."

Air powered hovercrafts have been advertised in the back pages of comics since the 60's, or maybe even longer.  They should work.  Why hasn't someone perfected them yet?  Probably George Bush's fault.


Thanks Blackie.