How can you determine the value of something? Well, I suppose by adding up the total sum that people are willing to give up for it.

On this Independence Day, the editors of Muller Over would like to salute those who are making a sacrifice to preserve our freedom. And far too often, we forget that those making those sacrifices for our country aren’t just those wearing a uniform, but also by those who go to school for months at a time without being able to hug their mom or dad.

So how much sacrifice is being paid to secure that freedom? Or put another way, how much is our freedom worth? Based on the expressions of these young boys and girls, it must be worth an awful lot.

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If the manly man, Tim “the Toolman” Taylor, could design a week to show manliness, it would look like this past week.    Testosterone was in the air as there were three bouts of cage-fight toughness that were heard clear around the world.  In each case, a manly winner was crowned as he stood over his conquest triumphantly like a Captain Morgan cartoon.

First Match: Obama vs. McChrystal
In the first bout of manliness, it was the lanky leader of liberty, the president without precedent, Barack Obama!  In the other corner, the General who was a little too specific,  Stanley McChrystal!  As background, this week Rolling Stone Magazine published some very unflattering quotes by General McChrystal about his Commander-in-Chief. Read more »

If you’ve seen the Simpsons, you know Mr. Burns –  the powerful, greedy and slightly incompetent CEO of the energy company who leads the organization during disasters.  Come to think of it, I don’t think I’ve ever seen Mr. Burns and the BP CEO Tony Hayward in the same room at the same time.

It turns out that despite their valiant efforts, BP simply can’t stop the foul and dangerous spew which threatens the U.S. and the company.  No – I’m not talking about the oil spill.  I’m talking about the ridiculous rants of the BP CEO himself.

However, as the fourth largest company on planet Earth, the editors of MullerOver.com had their pens and paper out to learn from the experts in crisis communications.   Read more »

How difficult is it for an unauthorized spectator to get onto the track during an Olympic track-and-field race?  Well, it’s impossible.  Unless, that spectator is the father of an athlete under excruciating physical and even worse emotional pain.  Then – apparently no level of security can hold back that father from his hurting son.

For this Father’s Day, we think it’s the perfect opportunity to relive the greatest father and son moment in Olympic history.

It started with a routine semi-final 400 meter race at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barecelona.  The 26 year-old star British sprinter, Derek Redmond, felt in great shape.  He started the race and was in control.  His level of confidence was of one who knew he was on his way to a medal later in the day- maybe even a Gold. Read more »

Soccer has one very basic rule.  No one can use their hands except for the goal keeper.  Unfortunately, someone forgot to tell the second part of the rule to English goal-keeper, Robert Green.

Green missed a goal that even Queen Elizabeth could have stopped.

In perhaps the most anticipated match-up between the U.S. and England since the Battle of Bunker Hill, the U.S. took on the English in round one of the World Cup.  And like that Battle in 1775, the Americans showed that we weren’t going to be the push-overs that the English expected.

But – we don’t find that goal the troublesome part of the game.  It’s the score that keeps our editors up at night.  One-to-one.  What?  That’s not a score but a type of conversation.  Sports scores should have two, maybe three digits per side.  In the case of a tie, teams should keep playing until the players drop like flies in exhaustion and it’s just the two goal keepers left standing. Read more »

This week was highlighted by one of the most gut wrenching calls in baseball history.  A 28-year-old right handed pitcher from Venezuela, Armando Galarraga, was a single out from what is one of the most storied and elusive feats in the sport:  the perfect game.  It’s 27 batters walking to the plate followed by 27 batters walking back to the dugout defeated by the pitcher.

It’s one of the rarest feats in any sport – and has never happened in Detroit.  Until Wednesday night.  On what should have been the final play before Galarraga had the ultimate bar story for the rest of his life, the first base umpire simply made the wrong call. Jim Joyce called the runner safe in what we now know clearly was an out.

But – the pitching performance nor the bad call was the remarkable part of the story.  It’s what happened in the next 24 hours that should go down in sports history.

The moment he saw the bad call, Galarraga didn’t charge the judge, but had a surprised and pained smirk and went back to the mound. Read more »

Two 80′s icons had head injuries and two 80′s icons were in intensive care.   But – reflecting on this past week, one has recovered to the biggest week of his life.  And tragically, one life was extinguished.

First, the life of Gary Coleman.  It’s been said that the single most hazardous job in the country is that of a child star.   With the exceptions of maybe Richie Cunningham and Mike Seaver, it rarely turns out well.  Gary Coleman was no exception.  His career blazed brightly with a catchy tagline and made being small cool.  It seems like only last year that he was on Different Strokes with his pet fish Abraham. Read more »

It’s not that I mind getting older.  I just mind people being younger than me.

Maybe that “Drill baby drill” wasn’t the best Republican mantra in 2008 after all.

I’m pretty sure that the writers of Lost had no idea where the show was going when they started.

Someone stole $125M in art from a Paris Museum.  Man – I hope the heist was just like from the movies with the guy jumping over lasers.

Is it possible that the show “Glee” has jumped the shark in its first season already?

People who are upset that a 13-year-old climbed Mt. Everest are just upset that a 13-year-old already has a cooler life that the rest of us.

Can we all make a pact to never talk about Lindsey Lohan again?  Please?  Actually, I don’t think you should even read that sentence a second time. Read more »

You know that feeling.  You’re in a corporate conference room and a speaker comes to the front to present a new policy of cover sheets on your TPS Reports.  They distribute a print out which includes of all the slides they’re about to present.  It’s 37 slides of 10 point text!

A wave of panic overcomes you while blood rushes from your face.  You glance over to the windows, but are crushed to find your one possible escape hatch doesn’t open.  You wonder if texting a bomb scare could be traced back to you.  You are then resigned to losing 90 minutes of your life going over five minutes of information.

Millions of doodles are done each day in American conference rooms because of PowerPoint.  In fact, the bad ones have been called “hypnotizing chickens”. And while this has been the bane of the corporate world, a new study by the Editorial Staff of MullerOver has found that Microsoft PowerPoint presentations don’t just kill white-collar brain cells, but actually threaten national security.  It’s true. Read more »