Fans of Bear Grylls will enjoy his interview in tomorrow’s Sunday Observer. This interview is part of their This Much I Know series.
During the interview, Grylls, who is about to embark on an expedition to Antarctica, revealed that:
I said no to TV three times, because I didn’t have the confidence to do it
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Posted in Bear Grylls by Mitch on November 29th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
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Bear Grylls and “three of my best buddies” will be going on an expedition to Antactica, to climb a 9,000 foot–high mountain, which has never been climbed before. After Grylls leads his team to the summit, they will be allowed to name the mountain.
But “Mount Grylls” is not the primary reason for this expedition [...]
Posted in Bear Grylls by Mitch on November 29th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
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What would you do if you were peacefully surfing the Web, on a computer at school, when all of the sudden, your screen was filled with random pornographic images?
I would turn it off, then call “Tech Support.”
Julie Amero, 41, of Windham, Connecticut, lost her Connecticut Teaching License on Friday, for doing nothing, except panicking.
On [...]
Posted in Idiots by Mitch on November 24th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
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After I finished high school, I worked as a messenger in downtown Manhattan for six months, until I saved enough money to spend the next six months in Israel.
I volunteered at Kibbutz Kfar Hanassi, near Rosh Pina, during the first half of my trip. Later, I “crashed” at Tel-Aviv University, in a friend’s dormitory [...]
Posted in Learning by Mitch on November 24th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
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Although I started Where Did My Brain Go? to write about traumatic brain injuries, I rarely do, because most of the news is depressing. Living with a traumatic brain injury is a daily struggle. Just something I have to live with. It cannot be “cured”, and will never improve.
Ready for more bad news? [...]
Posted in T B I by Mitch on November 21st, 2008 at 2:10 pm
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Writing about idiots, has made me nostalgic for my favorite idiots.
One of my all–time favorite shows, was Jackass, which aired from 2000–2002 on MTV. Jackass had no plot. It was just a bunch of guys, acting like idiots.
My favorite performers, were Johnny Knoxville, and Steve-O, who often injured themselves, performing stunts.
For two examples, watch [...]
Posted in Idiots by Mitch on November 21st, 2008 at 5:18 am
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This Adminstration, which I will remember for starting a war, which has left 320,000 Americans with traumatic brain injuries, is not done.
Our leaders our now after our most vulnerable group: animals. First, they made it harder to add new species to Endangered Species Act of 1973. Then, unlike previous administrations, they stopped adding new [...]
Posted in Idiots, News by Mitch on November 21st, 2008 at 12:32 am
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Rico Wright, 28, a rapper, from Dublin, Georgia, was sentenced to 40 years, for shooting 25–year–old Chad Blue, 25, in the groin, and then bragging about it in a song.
What an idiot!
In August 2006, after Blue encountered Wright and two other men on Grey Street, he said:
“I heard one of the men tell Rico, [...]
Posted in Idiots by Mitch on November 20th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
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