Paging Harold Bloom

 According to the (subscription wall), this is what the college crowd is reading right now:

When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris
The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch and Jeffrey Zaslow
Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace … One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
New Moon [...]

Stay Classy, Eugene

An email from our buddies at EPD:
Local area Law Enforcement was kept busy on game day for the Duck’s season opener. The officers working the game itself ejected 60 spectators. 44 of those ejections were alcohol related. There were 7 related to disorderly conduct and the rest were misc. reasons such as trespass and possession [...]

Stay Classy, Eugene: Part Two

Money quote from of the game:
“I guess we were just distracted,” Washington running back Chris Polk said. “We’re better than this. I was prepared, but I didn’t expect (the crowd) to be this hostile.”

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Hope, Change, and the Urge to Vomit

Michael Moynihan at Reason has a video of what can only be called , or in his words, “a skin-crawling, wretch [sic]-inducing festival of crappiness” featuring such notable musicians as Jason Alexander, Margaret Cho, and Whoopi Goldberg (I think I spotted Herbie Hancock in there, too, which is really a shame). Evidently, this fetid pile [...]

Nancy Pelosi Drops It Like It’s Hot

Thanks to OC Alum Ian Spencer for sending in this video. It warms the cockles of my heart.
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Obama is the chosen one

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Two Can Play At That Game

John McCain as his running mate.
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Do you really want to Obama? Really?
“Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency,” said Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton.

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Totten in Georgia

I don’t have too much to say about except that it’s easily one of the most informative things I’ve read about the conflict in Georgia, bar none. Read it.
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Tees By The Impressionable Masses, For The Impressionable Masses

The Obama website that allows you to design and upload your own hope-tastic t-shirt designs. Users can then vote on their favorite entries, and the winner will presumably be put in production.
You can download a .zip file from the website with all the necessary logos and t-shirt outlines (Creative Suite required). Hmm, I wonder [...]

Climate Change

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