Friday, October 25, 2002

Freedom Of The Press Meets Angry High School Jocks. Plastic::Media::Print Media: After a sarcastic high school newspaper article, student is sacked by football team as part of pep assembly. Can you hear the lawyers calling? [Plastic: Most Recent] Something similar to this happened to a friend of mine at college...he wrote a column in one of the student newspapers, and boy was it sarcastic - wonderfully fun stuff, ripping on everyone from the sexual assault support team to the football team and back again. Well, after some joke at the expense of the football team (I can't remember what exactly, but it was kinda funny), a few of the less-than-bright members of the team decided to get revenge. They broke into his dorm room while he slept, unplugged his phone, and beat the shit out of him. This is at Oberlin College, mind you, ultra-left wing touchy-feely school. The only things our football team is known for are that Heisman coached there early on in his career, and we had the absolute worst varsity college football team in the country during the '90s - one win. Hell, Swarthmore, who had the nation's longest losing streak after we somehow beat Thiel in '97, played us a couple years later, won, and promptly disbanded their football team - ending on a winning note and all that. But these idiots thought that they had to beat up someone for pointing out how bad the team was in a comical way. I forget how the whole thing wound up discipline-wise...the all-male dorm that served as Jock House, for all intents and purposes, got gender-integrated the next year, and a couple of the attackers got suspended, if I remember correctly. Fucked up.

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Jurisdictions Will Weigh Options, Including Death. When law enforcement officials meet today to discuss what charges to bring against John Allen Muhammad and John Lee Malvo, the main topic is likely to be the death penalty. By Adam Liptak. [New York Times: National] Speaking of "aw hell", Alabama wants to get the death penalty on 17 year old John Lee Malvo...check that, Lee Boyd Malvo. New name, I guess. He's a friggin' kid...there's hints of abuse and other mistreatment by Muhammed, allegations of brainwashing...so yeah, let's exceute him. If I had the time, I'd dig up the stat on how many countries execute their children...it's something like 5 or 6, including the US.

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Get This Partisan Started: Dubya's Federal Election Army. Plastic::Politics::Politics:Dubya: With the shoehorning of official duties and party fund-raisers, and the deployment of Federal appointees to the campaign trail, has Bush trumped his predecessors in using public office for partisan gain? [Plastic: Most Recent] Short answer: yes. Long answer: Oh hell yeah.
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Microsoft decals don't stick in NYC. The city of New York orders the software giant to remove butterfly decals that were plastered all over midtown Manhattan as part of a promotion for the launch of MSN 8. [CNET News.com] I remember there being a big deal about the Peace Love And Linux graffiti that IBM did a few years back - I loved them and giggled whenever I found 'em. Microsoft decals, though...bleh.

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Aw, hell...Paul Wellstone is dead. Possibly with his wife and kids on board the plane as well. Not only is this a tragedy for Wellstone's family, this is a tragedy for America: one of the great liberals is gone. This is really, really sad...
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