Tuesday, August 30, 2005

Send Robertson to Venezuela!

I just heard the news story about Jesse Jackson's trip to Venezuela. He met with Hugo Chavez to try and alleviate the tension between Venezuela and the U.S. thanks to Pat Robertson's recent comments. Chavez is asking the U.S. to extradite Pat Robertson to Venezuela and Jackson agrees! While I like the fact that people are finally talking about how crazy Pat Robertson is in light of his recent comments, I find it a bit odd that people are so up in arms over this comment when it really pales in comparison to the completely asinine things he says every day. I think Chavez put it best however when he said that if the U.S. extradited Robertson "We could offer him [Robertson] free psychiatric treatment… but he could be a lost case". My dog Dusty agrees with Chavez and Jackson:

Send Pat Robertson to Venezuela... Arf!

News story on my surgery

The NBC news station in St Louis finally aired the story about my surgery last week. There's a short summary of the interview on their website but the link to watch the video doesn't seem to be working and is mixed up with a related story on Jerry Lewis. Hopefully they'll get it figured out in the next couple of days. Here's the link anyway.

  • KSDK news


  • I tried to give a direct link to my story but it keeps bringing up a story from 2001 on Troy Aikman's retirement... weird. So here's a link to the KSDK news website. If you scroll down towards the bottom you'll see a section called "Cover Story" and mine is the second one listed. It's called "A Different View: Living With Muscular Dystrophy".

  • KSDK news
  • Saturday, August 27, 2005

    gone fishin'

    Well I'm back in Des Moines until I leave for germany. I'm not leaving until Sept 28 when I fly to Philadelphia to visit a friend and go to a Killer's concert. I fly from there to Frankfurt on sunday oct 2nd. I had plans to go on a long road trip out west to Gunnison CO, vegas, LA, and San Fran, but as it turns there's some significant problems with my car. It's fine for shorter trips (at least for the next couple months) but to make it road worthy for a long road trip would cost more than I'm prepared to spend. So it looks like I'm going to have to settle for a cheap flight to Vegas and a much curtailed trip out west. This means more time to kill in good old Des Moines. I am still planning on making a couple trips down to Lawrence however.

    I did just get back from a trip to Fort Dogde where I visited my sister Jill and her husband Jeremy. We had a good time and went fishing on the river. Here's a picture I took of Jill and Jeremy on his fishing boat.



    And just for the record I caught two fish (on back to back casts no less) while Jeremy, the expert fisherman, caught one tiny one. Unfortunately I don't have any pictures to prove it because he quickly cut my fish loose and freed them before I could get my camera out. So far, Fort Dodge is as far as my recent travels have taken me, but hopefully in the near future I'll be reporting of my adventures in Lawrence (where there are many friends I miss) and of course Vegas -- all of which is just a prelude to the real travels ahead in europe.