The Toronto Blue Jays will Win 90 Games
With the new Major League Baseball Season upon us, there has been a lot of excitement in Toronto surrounding the new look Toronto Blue Jays. The team has been revamped after an extremely disappointing 2012 season. Can the new players stay healthy and on the field long enough to dethrone the Yankees as division champs? Lets analyze why the Jays will win over 90 games and take the AL East crown. Read more
Evolution: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory (Book Review)
I recommend this book to anyone interested in both the findings of the Theory of Evolution and its historical, epic struggle, which continues even today, and will continue for years to come. Edward J. Larson begins with the evolutionary theorists, such as the catastrophists, leading up to Charles Darwin (men like Cuvier, Lamarck, Owen, etc.), until the modern synthesis we have today. Larson is an excellent writer, which is why he won the Pulitzer Price for Summer of the Gods in 1998, and makes Darwinism accessible to the layman, while remaining informed and extremely caring about this undeniably significant, controversial scientific theory. Its possible mechanisms for breeding forth all the magnificent diversity of life on this earth have themselves, as Larson meticulously highlights, been a matter of vigorous scientific dispute among evolutionists, and Larson uses the hypotheses and disputes over their certainty as a mechanism to fuel his book forward. Read more
The Outsider (Book Review)
“Given that you’ve got to die, it obviously doesn’t matter exactly how or when.” The Outsider is a novella which addresses the problem of the nihilist. Given that we all cease to exist one day, as far as Meursault, the protagonist, can see, it doesn’t make a difference when or how that time comes, because afterwards there is only nothingness. And so Meursault embraces nothingness while alive, within the context of what he keeps repeating throughout the novel: “It didn’t really matter.” To him, even getting his head decapitated in his youth doesn’t make a difference in the long run, since he will not be able to dwell on or remember it (or create any new thoughts or ideas, for that matter) immediately after his cranium hits the ground. “Everyone was privileged. There were only privileged people. The others too would be condemned one day,” he says. Indeed, he enjoyed life for all the aesthetics and sensuality it had to offer him, and he knew it was a privilege to be able to experience existing at all. But, to him, in the end, nothing mattered, because we would all eventually be condemned – to death. Read more
American Reunion (2012) Review
I still remember seeing American Pie the very night it came out on July 9 of 1999 at the drive in. Me and the people I was with laughed our asses off. It was something miraculous to me that movie. What I found really unbelievable, however, was that part two made me laugh even harder, and American Wedding even harder than that. I love that trilogy. It should have been left a trilogy, however. Some producers simply shun the very notion of quitting while you’re ahead, so it seems. You know the expression “squeezing a lemon?” Well, unfortunately, the makers of the American Pie franchise tried to squeeze one for American Reunion and all that came out was pulp. SPOILERS AHEAD! Read more
Brock Lesnar Returns to WWE: Lesnar vs Cena
Months ago, Brock Lesnar announced his retirement from Mixed Martial Arts. Brock Lesnar has finally returned to WWE. I wrote an article predicting that he’d inevitably return to the WWE and sign with Vince McMahon. You can view that article HERE The MMA and WWE worlds are a buzz right now with tweets and Facebook chatter regarding Brock Lesnar’s future. He has finally shown his hand and appeared on last night’s Monday night RAW, starting a new feud with none other than John Cena! Read more
WrestleMania 28 Rock vs Cena Preview
On Sunday, April 1, 2012, World Wrestling Entertainment presents WrestleMania 28 Rock vs Cena from Sunlife Stadium in Miami, Florida. While there are still matches to be announced for the year extravaganza, the top three matches on the card have drawn a lot of interest. Read more
Lesnar retires from UFC; returning to WWE?
After last night’s UFC 141 main-event loss to Alistair Overeem, Brock Lesnar announced his retirement from Mixed Martial Arts. The MMA world is a buzz right now with tweets and Facebook chatter regarding Brock Lesnar’s future. Will he simply take a few months off and return to MMA eventually or was this his last hoorah in the octagon? Read more
Game THE R.E.D ALBUM (2011) Review & Contest
Game rose to fame in 2005 as part of G-Unit, with his debut album “The Documentary” which received two Grammy nominations. He followed his debut album with two more successful albums, “The Doctor’s Advocate” in 2006, and his third album, “LAX” in 2008. Game also runs his own label “The Black Wall Street Records”. He hasn’t made an album since 2008. He did recently put out a mixtape called Hoodmorning No Typo Candy Coronas. Read more
Watch The Throne (2011) Album Review & Contest
One of the biggest albums of the year is finally out. The two biggest Rap icons in the music industry have collaborated to produce an album called Watch The Throne. Jay Z’s last album was Blue Print 3 which was in 2009. Kanye West’s last album was called My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy which came out in 2010. The album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy has gone certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America as of August 2011. Read more
Derek Jeter Joins the 3000 Hit Club
The wait is finally over. Derek Jeter, the captain of the Yankees finally joined the 3000 hit club, and did so in style. The New York Yankees were facing the Tampa Bay Rays on Saturday July 9th, 2011. Derek Jeter was going into the game two hits short of 3000. In the first inning leading off, Jeter singled. The next time he came up in the third inning everyone in the stadium stood up as they knew magic might be happening. Read more
