If It's Good Enough for Kirby it's Good Enough for Me.

Luckily we in the church don't live by the mantra that is the title of this entry. Especially since our beloved Peter Priesthood, that has made us chuckle through the years as the stationary guy in Sons of Provo or the geeky returned missionary in the RM, has decided to promote the cool refreshing taste of Miller Lite. That's right, Kirby Heyborne is a spokesman for beer.

We as Kirby fans could have seen is excessive alcohol abuse for years now. From his slow depressing music that's always talking about the one that got away, to his impaired judgement when he decided to participate in the monstrosity of cinema known as The Singles Second Ward. Man I hate sequels.

I'm getting way too far ahead of myself, Kirby more than likely doesn't drink. Maybe in the commercial Kirby is getting excited because his beer-tracking friend was going to lead him to a white field all ready to be harvested as he carried his sickle proudly.

More than likely, however, he was just epitomizing the complacent church members that my American Heritage teacher told us about during his soapbox worthy diatribe of how we in the church allow ourselves to be manipulated by our countries consumer culture. You know like appearing in beer commercials, which is definitely against the honor code, to get your foot in the door of the entertainment industry.

If Kirby were a punk rocker and the population of mormonism were 16 year olds with purple hair I'm sure we'd all be shouting the term "sell-out." Here's the commercial for those who haven't seen it.

BYU-I: Elephants and Donkeys Throwdown in the Cage

I have the days off Tuesday and Thursday while the love's at work, coincidentally I get really bored. I study and what not but sometimes that doesn't stimulate me enough. Luckily today there was something goin' down that did the trick, this is after I played soccer in the hail for a few hours, the College Republicans and College Democrats (the phantom group that I guess represents my views the most) faced off amongst a predominately republican crowd at BYU-Idaho, yeah go figure.

I went and enjoyed myself. It was entertaining but the Republicans obviously had home field advantage and took the debate with ease, considering it was graded on crowd response and not the issues themselves. It didn't matter what the democrats presented or how well they did it, the Republicans were able to conquer with one of the many cards they borrowed from Sean Hannity; democrats would present figures for immigration the republicans would play the national security card, regarding energy national security with the addition of anti-ecosystem rhetoric.

My big pet peeve of the night was that there were obvious gaps and double standards that the "away" team in blue didn't capitalize on. It was this fact alone that inspired me to make a life changing decision, embrace my inner-democrat. JUST FOR THE RECORD, I really dislike Barrack Obama and Hilary Clinton but considering the obvious domination of the reds here on campus I should support the party I'm registered with; especially considering we'll be in Iraq for the next 50 years and the Republicans still decide to tie every political issue today to 9/11.

That being said, don't be suprised when you see my name associated with the BYU-Idaho Campus Democrats. I'm a yankee fan, I can't help but support a losing side.

I Love Curved Test Scores.

I enjoy good grades. Sometimes I enjoy mindnumbing activities more, which sometimes hinders my pursuit for good grades. Luckily, in this world of univerity exams there's a great tool that helps people like me out. The curve.

I am currently in a class at BYU-Idaho where the lectures don't do much at all, in fact the professor on www.ratemyprofessor.com has a rather consistent grading of around 2 out of 5 for most things. I don't want to share his name because that's rather immature and blogging is stupid, even more so when it's done to harm one's character. Anyway, back to the story.

I was so pumped to score a 69% on his exam (a personal improvement I might add). I was all set to accept the 69% and be proud, however that's not the case in this class. Apparently I'm not the only person in his class that feels this way about the teaching methods, in fact the average test score was way below that of mine which introduced me to the beauty of the curve. Thanks to the majority of the class being worse than my mediocre self I was able to score a 91% on the test after he brought the average test score to the 75% range. How amazing is that.

College, it doesn't matter if your top of the class just make sure you're better than last.

Here's a picture that epitomizes this post if you're one of them folks that prefer pictures.

Misled Mayhem Archive Post 1

I'll periodically post some old Misled Mayhem stuff that's been chillin' on my hard drive for years in order to back it up on the interweb. Enjoy it.