June 3, 2011
Rob Jenkins
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JENKINS: Saying goodbye to another year of folding chairs and ballpark hot dogs
While you're hauling your kids around, spending interminable hours sitting on bleachers and folding chairs, and eating ballpark hot dogs, just look at it as a kind of retirement plan, albeit a risky one.
JENKINS: On Mother's Day, a tribute to my step-mom
Normally a woman carries a child and nurtures it from birth, forming an unbreakable bond. The child will love her unconditionally until about age 13, at which point it will hate her for about six years before eventually coming to love her again. Meanwhile, she never stops loving the child, no matter what. That's known as motherhood.
JENKINS: The AAU Effect is damaging college basketball
Next time you're watching a college basketball game, and supposedly "big-time" players are clanking the ball off the rim over and over again, remember that we mainly have the AAU culture to thank.
JENKINS: How did SACS wind up as the villain?
Although I'm fortunate to live in a county that appears to have relatively functional schools, I can't help but look at DeKalb and think, "There but for the grace of God go we."
JENKINS: Another ill-conceived educational fad
The idea that online classes are no different from traditional classrooms, or that we can herd all our students into online and the majority of them will be just fine is, to be blunt, a little bit nuts.
JENKINS: What the federal government can learn from household budgeters
I know I can't draw too many parallels between my household budget and something as big and complicated as the federal budget. After all, there's at least one major difference: my household actually HAS a budget.
JENKINS: How to be a guy: The art and politics of passing gas
It's a topic not discussed much in mixed company, and for good reason.
JENKINS: Confessions of a Girl Scout cookie addict
In our family, Thin Mints are the choice when it comes to Girl Scout cookies. And each of us guards our stash with vigor.
JENKINS: If Blank wants to take Falcons to LA, he should just go
Here's some pretty good relationship advice: when somebody threatens to walk, don't allow yourself to be manipulated. I think that applies to professional football teams as well as to significant others.
JENKINS: Why salespeople (among others) hate me
This may come as a surprise to my regular readers -- I know it shocks the heck out me -- but some people don't think I'm funny.
JENKINS: State militias: a simple answer to the gun-control debate
Not only would a standing militia provide all the justification citizens need to exercise their right to bear arms under the Second Amendment, but it would also create a powerful force of armed patriots should the state ever need to defend itself -- against enemies foreign or domestic.
JENKINS: Observations on the college football season past
The SEC was again its dominant self, led by Alabama winning another national title.
JENKINS: That frog in the boiling pot? It's us
The problem with giving up freedoms, as we've learned since, is that you never get them back.
JENKINS: Thanks, big box stores, for ruining my Thanksgiving
Why did "Black Friday" need to turn into "Black Thursday."
JENKINS: How to be a guy: kitchen clean-up 101
I know this goes against the grain, since cleaning has traditionally been regarded as women's work. Then again, men have traditionally been responsible for supporting the family financially. Any questions?
JENKINS: What to do if your guy loses on Tuesday
With the 2012 election still too close to call, it's important for you to have a plan, should your candidate not get the nod, preferably involving some combination of finger-pointing, denial, dissembling, self-pity, and dire predictions about the future of our republic.
JENKINS: Wonder what happened to your life, parents? Watch the video
Parents these days seem to subjugate their own lives to those of their children, so that little remains of the parent as an individual. You look around the ballpark and wonder just when that cute little Pam Jones, whom you used to go out with in high school, turned into "Ryan's Mom."
JENKINS: Elvis was right, and I'm not feeling so bad myself
I've got a new book coming out in a couple of months, and as anyone knows who has not spent the last decade living in a cave, or in Alabama, social media has become an incredibly potent marketing tool these days.
JENKINS: A shout-out to some of my favorite freedoms
With the Fourth of July coming up, a look at some of the things that make me glad to be an American.
JENKINS: History demonstrates assimilating effect of US culture
From all the angry rhetoric lately about illegal immigration, I gather a lot of Americans are afraid of losing our country to the invading hordes. Not me. I have unshakeable confidence in the power of American culture to corrupt practically anyone.
JENKINS: Knowledge of financial aid is key to affording college
Want to go to college but don’t think you can afford it? Think again, suggest several local experts.
JENKINS: The Hall of Fame case for Dale Murphy
To all those “baseball purists” who insist that Dale Murphy did not accomplish enough in his career to deserve enshrinement in Cooperstown, I offer the following proposition: How about we give him Barry Bonds’ spot? Or Roger Clemens’? Or Manny Ramirez’s?
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