A hot topic around this time of year is New Year’s resolutions. Everyone wants a fresh start and plans on improving their lives in some way, shape or form with the coming of new year.   It’s usually a lofty goal that is abandoned once the calendar turns to February.

Typically, people will vow to lose weight, advance their career or perhaps fall in love.  These are often tough goals to meet because they require hard work, perseverance and even a little bit of luck.   Most people lack the resolve to achieve these goals.

I say why set ourselves up for failure? We need to lower our standards. Why not set some new year’s resolutions you can actually meet? With that in mind, I’ve come up with a list of ten new year’s resolutions that I am confident I can keep.

1. I will put off going to the gym and limit my exercise to being intimate with my wife and playing Nintendo Wii.

2. I will blow off church every Sunday during football season so I can properly set my fantasy football lineup. (more…)

Links of the Week will be done a little differently from now on. The title of the post will feature my favorite blog posting or video clip from the past week. The other links will follow below it. I just feel that the title “Links of the Week” isn’t very attention grabbing for people on Twitter, Facebook or Google Reader.

This week’s featured link is from the Jay Leno Show. On Thursday, Denzel Washington was forced to “earn his plug” for his new movie “Book of Eli”. Washington, an avid Yankees fan, competed in Yankees trivia against someone who knows the Yankees pretty well. (more…)