The pick pissed off the conservatives a lot less than I thought it would. Instead of nominating a hellfire and brimstone absolutist in the tradition of Bork and Scalia, Bush has nominated a mild-mannered midwesterner who deals in pragmatics rather than doctrine. Bush gets a nominee that will have a very easy time getting confirmed (say what they ( Read more... )

Never doubt that a small group of dedicated citizens can make a really crappy movie. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Po was in town this weekend, and I didn't realize how much I really missed him until he was actually here. Eight facts about this weekend, in random order ( Read more... )

Johnny Cash sings this song from the point of view of a Vietnam vet called "Drive On." I'll save you the terrible LJ-eque reprinting of all the lyrics, but in the first verse there's a great line ( Read more... )

1. "What am I in school for? Well, I'd eventually like to go into politics." You're a fucking narcissist who's interested primarily in seeing your name on yard signs and having people chant for you. Get away from me, for you seek to be a rock star without acquiring rock star talents ( Read more... )

[Note: As many of you know, the President of my alma matter is leaving at the end of 2007. While President of Concordia is not exactly something they take applications for, here's why I feel I'm better than whatever lame-ass balding, fattening white man they will eventually wind up bringing in ( Read more... )

Maybe you haven't heard (it's recieved so little coverage in the mainstream media), but the Pope died. In what appears to be a period of mourning, the media have taken a vacation from objectivity. The cable news networks have laid a giant wet kiss on the pope's corpse, and interviews of people changed forever by seeing or meeting the pope cram the ( Read more... )

It's just sad that Micheal Jackson has been relegated into the pile of on-trial C-list celebrities that includes such wunderkind as O.J ( Read more... )

confession: When I learned that the Zimmerman libarary's alarm system hasn't worked in years, I stole several books from the library the week before I graduated ( Read more... )

[Mind you, this article is not from an Onion-style organization, it's from an actual, honest-to-God-hahaha Las Vegas news organization, the Las Vegas Mercury. I stumbled upon it by googling "Pope death odds" as I was curious when the bookies had the pope set to die ( Read more... )