I have not been blogging much in the last week or so, as I have been occupied with the Holidays, all the Bowl games, and prepping for next semester, but I did want to take a moment ant wish everyone a very happy New Year. A couple of quick New Year’s Eve notes: 1.) Tomorrow …
Archives for December 2003
Not Dead…
I am not dead… Just unmotivated. Too much college football.
Blame Canada!
I expect the Luddites and anti-free-traders will seize on this info: Investigators tentatively traced the first U.S. cow with mad cow disease to Canada, which could help determine the scope of the outbreak and might even limit the economic damage to the American beef industry. Dr. Ron DeHaven, the Agriculture Department’s chief veterinarian, said on …
Absence of Alarmism
Is it just me, or has the American public reacted pretty admirably despite the glaring “Mad Cow” headlines in the papers and on the news? I have yet to see signs of a full fledge hysteria, much to the media’s dismay.
Deanurysm’s
This sort of thing has got to give his staff headaches. Dean then: Some Dean supporters privately say Dean’s admonition for southerners to stop voting based on “guns, gays, God and school prayer” is offensive to many voters. “Coming to the South during the church hour on a Sunday morning to tell southerners what they …
Christmas Wrap-Up
Christmas was fine, despite having the flu. I never got rid of that cough from about a month ago, and it just got worse and worse until I finally had a full-on cold. Really quite annoying. I shuffled arounf my parent’s house feeling miserable, while my father chased me with a lysol bottle yelling at …
Earthquake in Iran
The news seems to get worse and worse by the minute in Iran. Up to 20,000 dead? Unimagineable, although it is hard to see how anyone could have survived this: Just tragic. I also must admit that every time I hear a news report pointing out that the earthquake was a 6.7 on the Richter …