Oh, the things we have to get twenty-somethings to do in order to watch the debate. A little bit of history here….. Kilgore and his friends made up a drinking game before the first debate, and I made one up after the debate. Since then, I’ve seen lots of references to debate drinking games. First, [...]
Filed under: General Observations on October 16th, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Remember Tonya Harding? She was the ever-so-talented figure skater who got her boyfriend to hire a guy named Jeff Giloolie to whack the kneecap of her arch enemy Nancy Kerrigan with a pipe. Tonya Harding was then allowed to continue in the competition, but ended up being a national disgrace. Since then she’s taken stabs [...]
Filed under: Politics on October 11th, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I’m in a weird state of mind about the way things are going. My conventional rose-coloured glasses wants to believe that the economic bailout will actually make a difference. I’m not basing this hope on anything rational, but there IS something to the power of positive collective thought. All the people whose opinions I really [...]
Filed under: EWAKI, Politics, Teaching on October 4th, 2008 | 2 Comments »