These came down (or up) from a friend six years ago……something to offend just about everyone…..
1. WHAT DOES THE AVERAGE MINNESOTA PLAYER GET ON HIS SAT’S?
–DROOL
2. WHAT DO YOU GET WHEN YOU PUT 32 ALABAMA CHEERLEADERS IN ONE ROOM?
–A FULL SET OF TEETH
3. HOW DO YOU GET A MICHIGAN STATE GRADUATE OFF YOUR PORCH?
–PAY HIM […]
FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES, AN ARTICLE THAT SIGNIFIES YET ANOTHER USE FOR THE INTERNET–SELF-INCRIMINATION. HERE THE ATROCITIES AT ABU GHRAIB, IN WHICH AMERICAN MILITARY PERSONNEL FILMED THEMSELVES IN A VARIETY OF ANTI- AND A-GENEVA ACTIVITIES, FIGURE AS AN ANALOGUE TO THICK HEADS WHO PLACE HAZING SELF-STUDIES ON THE NET…DUH. COMMENTS WELCOME.
May 18, […]
Given Dick Pound’s obsession of clearing the Olympic Games and world sport generally of performance-enhancing drugs, and given the incredible focus on San Francisco Giant Barry Bonds’ alleged use of steroids to get “big” and break records, I think it important to reflect on how “drugs” affect all of us, and how “performance-enhancing” is an […]
THIS ENTRY FROM THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, UNDERLINING THE POINT THAT WARNINGS, SCARE TACTICS AND PROHIBITIONS ARE NOT THE BEST APPROACH TO BOOZE, SEX, DRUGS, ROCK ‘N’ ROLL AND ANYTHING THAT TEENS EMBRACE AND WANT TO EMBRACE TO BE COOL AND/OR TO MAKE THEIR PARENTS SQUIRM…….
THE NANCY REAGAN APPROACH, “JUST SAY NO,” SUMMARIZED IN THE […]
We now have three Duke University lacrosse players indicted for rape and other niceties. Gwen Knapp, writing in the San Francisco Chronicle, takes a look at the culture at the university, long considered squeaky clean because of its basketball program and coach–seemingly above anything so petty as the alleged misbehaviours that have brought Raleigh-Durham […]
Turned out to be a great day in Kingston, so did not get any blogging, book-writing, or consultant/editorial work done. That can wait until tomorrow. Did, however, run into a Los Angeles Times op ed piece on the Bush administration’s leaning on President Vicente Fox of Mexico–with the message NOT to weaken Mexican […]
Queen’s University is wonderful at pussy-footing on the tough issues, trying to finesse questions in committees until it gets the right answer, ignoring pressing moral and ethical issues until they hit the papers, keeping a stiff upper lip behind closed doors, much like the College of Cardinals convening at the Vatican to elect a new […]