Ugh, whatever

For those of you who are (and you know who you are), the Observer writes a glowing report on Jen Grubb and the Welsh football team. Gag me. Please. For God’s sake, she took a semester off school to train with the Women’s World Cup soccer team! Granted, it was a different sport… but they’re not that different. Why should amateur athletes have to compete with world-class talent in an interhall tournament?

Depressing

Remember when Father Garrick resigned over the University’s failure to add sexual orientation to the non-discrimination clause? He wrote to the Observer to give everybody an update on his life. It’s actually really sad; he moved out to L.A. but wasn’t able to find another university job. He resigned from the Congregation of Holy Cross because they wouldn’t offer him an assignment unless he refrained from identifying himself as gay and working for gay civil rights. He now can no longer work with Catholics in regular Catholic settings, because in the Church a priest has no official standing unless he is connected with a religious order or a diocesan bishop. To make ends meet, he worked as a security guard at The Tonight Show for four months. Rev. Garrick is happy to announce, though, that he has a new play opening in California. CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS? It makes me so angry I could spit. This good man was just trying to help people and stand up for his convictions and as a result his life has been ruined for two years. How can anybody justify this? I try to keep an open mind about Catholicism (especially with regards to this issue), but this… ARRRRGH. I can’t talk about it anymore.

*cough*

Here’s a really good argument for coed dorms at ND. My only problem with it has to do with the author, because I find the fact that he once hooked up with a student R.A. (who then lost her job and had to move from her dorm into PW her senior year) somewhat lessens the impact of his statements about gender relations. But maybe that’s just me.

Hurry up!

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

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.

“Misunderestimated”

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.