I've been asked for a recent picture of the youngster, so here's one from tonight.  I'm not lookin' so hot, but that can be expected after working and taking care of a kid, captured for eternity on a cell phone camera!

Okay, the title is a little misleading since the X Games haven’t been around 100 years yet. And I generally don’t even watch them — it’s just not my thing. But this year, the craziest moment ever occurred. Forget Travis Pastrana’s 720 on a bike. It doesn’t compare.

A guy named Jake Brown did two amazing things in one shot: first, he landed a 720 on a skate ramp, which is one of the most outstanding things you can do on a skateboard. Then, he fell from over 40 feet in the air, landed on his back, and walked away.

I give you Exhibit A (or is that Exhibit X?).

Editor’s note: I’ve added a new category for posts called Random Shorts in which I’ll pick random news items at random times and make random statements about them.  These will appear on random days.  Pretty random, eh?

Jimmy Carter, who, for the last three decades, has been America’s Champion for Peace (but has also been teetering perilously on the threshold of insanity and dementia the entire time), has lost his marbles.  It’s not that he is (again) blasting current U.S. policy in the Middle East.  It’s not that he’s maintaining his traditional, “whatever Republicans do, I do not” stance.  It’s not even that the photo that accompanies the link above makes Carter look like someone told him that one plus one equals two, and that he just can’t quite figure out how that equation computes.

It’s the fact that he’s throwing his support behind Hammas.  The same Hammas that has been officially labeled by most of the non-radical world as a terrorist organization.  The same group within the Palestinian “government” that just overthrew the group’s president’s ruling part in the Gaza Strip in a violent clash that left scores of people dead.  The same group that has called for the annihilation if the nation of Israel (which, by default, requires violence).

The United States’ bastion of peace supports terrorists.  Of course, this is the same man who single-handedly sparked the radical Iranian Revolution, so it’s really not all that surprising, given the right context.  Okay, I take it back.  He didn’t lose his mind this week — he lost it over thirty years ago.