Honorable Mentions
Travis Tygart
Travis Tygart, making the exact same face as the drunk guy sitting next to me at the bar last night when I told him I didn’t believe that he had a Porsche and was dating Tricia Helfer.
If you’ve never heard of Travis, that’s because he isn’t a very important person. So how does an unimportant person, who evidently has no talents and abilities of his own, become important (or, at least famous)?
Pick on someone who is wildly famous and try to ruin his life.
Travis heads up USADA, a non-profit but almost entirely government-funded agency that has been charged by Congress with enforcing anti-doping regulations for U.S. Olympic, Paralympic, Pan-American and ParaPan American sportsmen and women. Their current, and most famous, target is seven-time winner of the Tour de France and founder of a half-billion dollar cancer charity, Lance Armstrong.
Armstrong famously threw in the towel earlier this week, citing that arbitration with USADA is pointless. Only twice has USADA not been entirely victorious in arbitration and they have never been beaten in federal court (how shocking, considering they are paid by the federal government).
Of course, USADA has no proof Lance ever doped, nor do they have the authority to strip him of his Tour titles, as they have no jurisdiction over the professional cycling circuit. Their case against Armstrong actually manages to violate their own bylaws and rules, but that has hardly stopped them from conducting a two-year, multimillion dollar witch hunt (with our tax money) against America’s most famous cyclist.
Lance is on his bike, and you, Mr. Tygart, are on a power trip.
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I know where you’re coming from Teddy, but don’t be hating on the Apple.
Once upon a time I would walk past the Apple store, look in and laugh at all the trendy young trendsetters/early adopters blowing their meager earnings on the latest iPod, iPhone and iPad just for the status of having the latest gizmo with an Apple logo on it.
While the Apple ‘culture’ was annoying to me, I’ve been using MacBook’s at work for years and always liked them. They’re more intuitive than PCs and not as prone to viruses. Pretty much a trouble-free experience.
Well, the hard-drive on my Mac finally crapped out which meant a trip to the Apple store. It was a Tuesday morning and the mall was dead…except for Apple. It was teeming with annoying people spending large sums of money in the middle of the worst economy since the Great Depression.
A lightbulb went off in my head and now I love those annoying people and here’s why: I bought Apple stock shortly after that trip to the store and it is going through the roof with no sign of letting up soon. If it continues this way for the next few years, I’ll actually get to retire some day. Long live Apple.