College Bound
The dog days of college acceptance letters are upon us. You've applied to your dream college or university. You are on pins and needles waiting for the "letter". But Dad throws you a curve ball. Read on...
Sadly, this is a true excerpt from the Dallas Morning News on Saturday:
Blood may be thicker than water, but does it trump political allegiance?Not for the father and son duo of Ted and Teddy Gambordella.
Ted Gambordella dislikes the idea that his only son, A Highland Park High junior, is a Democrat. He loathes it so much that he had flat-out refused to pay his son's college education unless he becomes a Republican.
So what does Teddy do? He refuses to switch to the GOP party just to get his father's financial backing. To raise his college finances, Teddy created a new website titled- one million reasons why, where he is selling advertising space at twenty five cents a pixel to raise his college finances and stay in his politcal party of choice.
Based on the article in the Dallas paper, I don't think Teddy is switching to the GOP party anytime soon.
Readers, let me know your take on this.
Pierre Cutler
The Sacramento Executive
Comments
Well first of all this was originally done by an 18 year old Englishman named Alex Tew, who put up a "million dollar homepage" to finance his college education. Within three months, Alex had his million, and thousands of these 1000x1000 pixel pages were posted by folks hoping to imitate Alex's success.
So if you want to contribute your message to a 1000x1000 page located right here in the Sacramento cyberspace, go to my "billboard" at www.ecoworld.net/billboard, and you can buy a pixel for a dollar (100 pixel minimum), and help fund EcoWorld's reports on clean technology and renewable energy. Isn't that cool?
Posted by: Ed Ring | March 13, 2006 10:39 AM
Ed,
I remember the story about the million dollar home page. It set off several copy cat sites. The Dallas story is sad in that Dad is trying to bribe his son into registering as a GOP member. What I didn't report (because I wanted to minimize the political aspect of the blog) is that Teddy's website's full title is a million reasons why I hate Bush.
Pierre Cutler
The Sacramento Executive
Posted by: Pierre Cutler | March 13, 2006 5:11 PM