Archive for the 'Rants' Category

Fatally Stupid

May 9th, 2006 • Current Events, Rants

So I’m watching “Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America” on ABC.
Not only is the entire story brutally overdone, most of the acting feels like it’s being done off cue cards.
I’d turn it off, but then I’d be missing out on what everyone else will be mocking tomorrow.

The ‘G’ Word

January 30th, 2006 • How it Happens, Opinion, Rants

So I was sitting at my desk after school today, observing a discussion going on behind me. One student had earlier discouraged another from using “gay” in a negative sense (e.g., “This homework assignment is so gay”). My advisor (teacher) was praising the discouraging student for his actions. This fueled the larger discussion on the […]

Cringe

January 5th, 2006 • How it Happens, Local, Rants

The new set
Alright, I have been crazy to see the new WCCO set. What was I thinking? Yeah, I guess the set was everything I could have hoped for — a classy new desk and the widely promised giant window, but there’s one thing I didn’t quite picture: the whole “community” looking in. With the […]

For Lack of a Better News Site

December 31st, 2005 • Rants, Web Picks

“Sigh”
The emotion that I feel every time I click a link on a site and discover a “this article was not found” or “this article has been purged from the free news archive.”
Likely the best news site around is MSNBC. Its templates stay in-sync (unlike CNN, though I suppose for archival sake, it could be […]