Category: PW Blog

Damn this election. I wish Florida would hurry up and recount so I could know if I’m going to return to the US at all in the next four years. (i.e. If Bush wins, I’ll stay in the UK, thank you very much.)

Britannica.com is cool. I know I’ve already raved about “The Annotated Dennis Miller,” but you really should check out some of their other content. For example, rather than just review “Charlie’s Angels,” they provide a comprehensive timeline of women in the police force. The “Nurse Betty” special talks about the history of soap operas, and the “Girlfight” one covers the growth of female boxing clubs. Cool.

I can’t resist. Salon has a story about Dubya’s last stop on the campaign trail: Arkansas. A direct quote: “Of those who said that he didn’t have the courage to tackle Social Security reform, Bush said, ‘they misunderestimated me.’ It was not a joke.” You know what? If this guy does get in, he’s going to be a bigger laugh than Dan Quayle. Perhaps Indiana’s besmirched reputation can finally be put to rest.

I’ve been avoiding the Election issue today… but here’s another great article by my man Ebert.

Salon.com is running a very interesting story about a scientific study tying puberty to birth weight. Apparently Spanish researchers were trying to figure out why young girls are developing earlier and earlier, and this is the theory they came up with. My own experience (late bloomer; horrendously fat baby) would seem to support this. 🙂

Wow! ND has a bye week… and we move up four places on both the ESPN/USA Today Poll (we’re #12) and the AP Poll (we’re #11)! We should have bye weeks every week! 🙂

Now that the Weasels are officially out of the Interhall Football Playoffs, I feel I can finally give my support to Erin Place and the rest of the Off-Campus girls. LET’S GO SPAZ! BEAT THE DUCKS!

A great link from Kel, in the spirit of my earlier G.I. Joe post: “How to Catch the A-Team”.

The current ESPN.com College Football Poll asks “Who is the most exciting team in college football today?” There are seven options to choose from, including all three Florida schools, Oklahoma, Northwestern, Washington… and Notre Dame. What in the world? I mean, we didn’t even play last week! Sure, our quarterback tribulations have been pretty interesting, but I don’t think anybody would argue that we’re more exciting than teams actually in the hunt for the national championship. It’s like they just threw us in because they needed another name people would recognize, while also giving the anti-ND crowd the satisfaction of seeing our name way down on the list. (We’re in 6th, ahead of Washington.) But again… WHY?

Hahaha… The Simpsons plant “subliminable messagores.”