Skattershooting while pondering whether the Y2K bug had a bug of its own:

• For all those convinced that the Dallas Cowboys are still a good team, have you realized that over the past 41 games, the 'boys are 19-22?
• We all know kids are smart, so why then do weather reporters during Christmas time depict Santa's sled on the radar which, if drawn to scale, would make it about 100 miles long?
• Of all the school courses I've taken over the years, I'm most grateful that I took Typing 101 as a sophomore at Bridgeport High School.
• Why anyone would ask Dr. Laura Schlessinger for advice is beyond me (arrogant, abrasive, condescending, and  photographically hypocritical), nor do I understand the appeal of Rush Limbaugh (simply boring).
• Why is it every time I switch over to MTV, CMT, or VH1 there seems to be a commercial playing?
• Who do you think it was at Microsoft that decided that the best possible message for a computer to display when a program crashes is: "This program has performed an illegal operation"? I keep waiting for the cops to come crashing through the door every time.
• Once the federal judge in Washington declared Microsoft a monopoly (I guess that is an illegal operation), Janet Reno declared "It's a great day for American consumers". What's so great about the federal government declaring that capitalism failed?
• Dell was declared the most lucrative stock of the 1990s. Get this: from 1/1/90 through 12/31/99, the stock rose 90,772%. A $100 investment would now be worth over $9 million.
• Do you think it would too much to ask for Texas A&M to put a fresh coat of paint on their helmets before a bowl game on national television? Chico High School's helmets are in better shape than what I saw.
• I quit caring about the Dallas Cowboys when it dawned on me that I cared more about the team than the team did.
• Allegedly because of "costs", Dockers announced that it will shut down its online store after the first of the year. I happen to recall that Dockers initially told all retailers it did business with (i.e. Foley's) that they were not to sell Dockers on their own online stores. Now, with www.dockers.com closing,  retailers will be allowed to sell the product on its web sites.  One has to wonder whether those giant retailers turned to Dockers and said "You either stop selling them directly to consumers or you can stop selling them to us altogether."
• Babe Ruth was named ESPN's second greatest athlete of the decade. Yeah, I know about the home runs and even his pitching accomplishments, but there's just something about the old footage of him waddling around the bases that just doesn't scream "athlete".
• Pet peeve #1: I hate it when the press refers to an individual being arrested "on suspicion of drunk driving" or being in jail "on suspicion of murder". No one, and I mean no one, can be arrested or placed in jail on a charge of "suspicion".
• Pet peeve #2: I also hate it when some would be Plaintiff tells the media "we'll take this case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court if necessary". Note: it is the Supreme Court, and not the litigants, who decides which cases will be placed on its docket.