This collection of entries is from March 02, 2007.
I saw this today and I have to personally congratulate the Associated Press for the stand it took...
The editors at AP actually put an experimental weeklong embargo on any stories about Paris Hilton
AP: We ignored Paris Hilton
What happened?
None of the thousands of media outlets that depend on AP called in asking for a Paris Hilton story.
Have you heard about this story about a minor league pitcher?
Matt White. 29 years old. Only pitched 9 2/3 innings in the majors, over 9 professional seasons in just 7 games. Journeyman. He's a non-roster invitee to Dodgers spring training. Can he make the team? Doubtful, I think. But, I think he'll do OK...
Flash back 3 years ago. His great aunt was going into a nursing home and needed to raise some cash. He bought a 50-acre mountain-top lot of hers for $50,000.
He starts to clear 4 acres of the land to build a house, but had problems because they kept hitting these large flat rocks. There was so much rock, that he called a local geologist at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst to find out what it was.
It's mica schist, a slate-like shiny metamorphic stone used for patio decks and other construction.
OK, cool... you can sell it. It sells for $100 a ton. Now, it's gonna cost money to get the rock removed.
But... let's do some quick calculations...
$100 per ton... The geologist estimated there were 24 million tons of the stone on his land.
This journeyman pitcher, that didn't make more than $300,000 in his entire career... is sitting on... potentially...
$2.4 BILLION of rock.