DID YOU KNOW THAT THE UNITED STATES IS THE LARGEST MARKET IN THE WORLD FOR DRUGS, BOTH LEGAL AND ILLEGAL. UNCLE SAM IS ABSOLUTELY HOOKED ON DRUGS…..AND SHOULD WE BE SURPRISED ABOUT THEIR USE BY TEEN ATHLETES? NOT AT ALL? FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES….. November 28, 2008 High Schools Take On Doping With No [...]
BORING FOOTBALL? Couple has sex in bathroom as crowd cheered them on and their significant others watched Minnesota-Iowa game Football fans found action to cheer in Metrodome loo By John Brewer jbrewer@pioneerpress.com Updated: 11/26/2008 10:35:22 AM CST A couple of University of Iowa fans took a break from Saturday’s game at the Metrodome against the [...]
MASCOTS, COSTUMES, FREE SPEECH, EH WOT? FROM THE LA TIMES….. Claremont parents clash over kindergarten Thanksgiving costumes Some say having students dress up as pilgrims and Native Americans is ‘demeaning.’ Their opponents say they are elitists injecting politics into a simple children’s celebration. By Seema Mehta November 25, 2008 For decades, Claremont kindergartners have celebrated [...]
Barack Obama and the graveyard of hope (THE EAST AFRICAN JUNE 15, 2008) Wambui Mwangi (2008-08-11) I am finding it very difficult to join in the jubilation about Senator Barack Obama. Not that I want to deny the man his victory, but my impulse to celebrate keeps deflating on the idea that the best thing [...]
DID YOU AGREE WITH THE DISPOSITION? Kid can play football Matthew B. Stannard, Chronicle Staff Writer Monday, November 24, 2008 (11-24) 17:33 PST OAKLAND — An Alameda County judge ruled today that the organization that oversees high school sports in California violated state law when it found a Placer County foster child ineligible to play [...]
FROM LE MONDE, VIA TRUTHOUT, VIA PROF CARY FRASER…. Thank You, George! Saturday 08 November 2008 by: Frédéric Lemaître, Le Monde Mister President, Dear George At the moment when it’s good form to criticize you – unfortunately, even within these columns – allow me, instead, to inform you of my admiration. And to deplore your [...]
NEW YORK TIMES November 24, 2008 EDITORIAL The Rutgers Mess Rutgers, the biggest and most important public university in New Jersey, has spent millions of dollars furthering its ambition to become a major football power that might otherwise have been devoted to academics. It has done so during a period of rising tuition and budgetary [...]