Below you will find a photo of this man, riding in a side car on the way to his team’s ritual post-championship visit with the President of the United States. For your reference, the last time a Boston Red Sox team won a championship twice during an administration, Woodrow Wilson was in office.
Entries from February 2008
February 28, 2008
Couple Quickies
We here at Um have managed to bury ourselves in a mess of homework. Upshot? Y’all are gonna have to be satisfied with the bare minimum today. Our apologies.
–Word from the BBC is that some help might be on the way for the wronged folks over at Wikileaks. ACLU and EFF to the rescue, we [...]
February 27, 2008
A Quick Poll or Help Kanin do his Homework
Next Friday, I leave for Cuba. It’s an academic trip and, in preparation, I’m gonna need a bit of help from y’all. Please take a few minutes to click on that comment bar, tell me who you are, where you live, and if you’ve ever read anything written by Thomas Jefferson. Yup. That Thomas Jefferson. [...]
February 26, 2008
In Soviet Russia, Nuclear Testing Bans YOU
We here at Um have a certain affinity for ufology (yup, there’s a ufology–but, according to wikipedia, one “cannot obtain [such a] degree from a college or university”). And so it surprises us that we’ve not yet been afforded the opportunity to offer our thoughts about flying saucers, butt probes (YO!), and the like.
Maybe we [...]
February 25, 2008
More LOL CASTROS!
Someday, long after LOL Casto (or is it LOLCASTRO?) becomes an established meme, you people will covet Evan’s standing as the first contributor to these proceedings. When that day comes, wouldn’t you like to be able to console yourself with the knowledge that you were number two? Or three? Or four? Sure you would.
To help [...]
February 22, 2008
Jesus Fucking Christ Already With This No Sense of Humor Bullshit
So Max Karson is kind of a penis. But he’s the kind of a penis who’s got a history of being kind of a penis, and so his being kind of a penis hardly warrants this.
I mean, hey, jackass Dean of Colorado University’s J-School: HOW BOUT TEACHING YR KIDDIES ABOUT THEIR FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS? ‘Course, [...]
February 20, 2008
Web of TRUTHS!
Looks like there’s a First Amendment showdown a-brewin’ over the now-sorta-former Wikileaks web site: According to the New York Times‘ Adam Liptak and Brad Stone, “[t]he site…[which] invites people to post leaked materials with the goal of discouraging ‘unethical behavior’ by corporations and governments” was ordered shut on Friday by “Judge Jeffrey S. White of [...]
February 19, 2008
Looking For a Second Fidel
To adapt Brian McNamee: Fidel Castro is what he is. Which is to say that, as polarizing a figure as we’d like the now-former Cuban President to be, there’s no simple way to summarize the political impact of his nearly fifty-year (-and-counting) revolution. That said, I do think that it’s safe to note that his [...]
