On Friday I was witness to a Bates tradition called the puddle jump. On the Bates campus there is a small pond, dubbed the puddle, and every winter a rectangle of ice is cut out of the center and bold students take the plunge. Of course, as this is a college campus, nudity is involved, [...]
So Friday on the Mike Malloy show, Mike was discussing the story about the Marines in Iraq killing innocent civilians. Doing a great job as usual, he had been contrasting the statements made by the Iraqi prime minister with the White House spin that he had been “misquoted.” For those of you who missed this [...]
This one is way too important not to help pass along the grapevine. At the anual White House Correspondants’ Dinner, Stephen Colbert (of Strangers With Candy fame) performed some of the best satire yet to be seen regarding the Bush regime. After his talk not only did Bush have egg on his face but so [...]
I’d like to recommend something on TV. It’s called “The First Amendment Project” and being shown on Sundance and CourtTV. Tonight was the first night (Wed will have same programming on CourtTV,) and featured two short documentaries. The first was a look at Fox v. Franken. That flap was over Al Franken’s book, Lies and [...]
Frozen Seaweed
On Friday I was witness to a Bates tradition called the puddle jump. On the Bates campus there is a small pond, dubbed the puddle, and every winter a rectangle of ice is cut out of the center and bold students take the plunge. Of course, as this is a college campus, nudity is involved, [...]