March 15, 2006

  •   I Watched Seattle's Q13 Fox News last night, for some reason.  As I expected, it's pretty conservative - especially for Seattle.  Fox spent almost half its program hyping up the death of a handful of teenagers who died in a car crash while drinking and doing drugs.  It included a long "message to the viewers" from a parent of one of the kids that went something like this: "Never let your children have any freedoms at all, or the evil devil-children around them will convert them to the dark side and they will start drinking and doing drugs - and then they will die and you will feel horrible, just like I did."  (Okay, so he didn't say EXACTLY that, but it was close.)  This didn't surprise me.  What surprised me is that, in a brief interlude between news stories, they played part of an Alice and Chains song: "No Excuses".  Bitchin' .  What would've been cooler: playing ACDC's "Highway to Hell" during the entire "troubled teens drive drunk and die in car crash" segment.  That would have been WAY more interesting.

       The other day Adam mentioned that the feminist club at his college had an awareness-raising bake-sale.  I love the irony.  I like feminism, but I would still have mocked them if I had the chance: "So, you're making us aware that... a woman's place is still in the kitchen?"  Since hardcore feminists tend to have no sense of humor whatsoever, I probably would've had a large welt on my forehead from a high-velocity cookie impact.  But hey, free cookie :)

      My undergrads take their big final tomorrow.  The forecast calls for an ETERNITY of Grading one of Niels' arcane, complicated tests.  Multiple choice has been slain; evil reigns supreme.