Not only did New Moon have the biggest opening day EVER (beating The Dark Knight), but it finished third in opening weekend history (behind The Dark Knight and Spiderman 3).
“Rhode Island’s top Roman Catholic leader has asked Rep. Patrick Kennedy to stop taking Communion over his support for abortion rights, the diocese said Sunday.”
This is absolutely ridiculous. Shame on the Catholic Church. One’s political views should not determine whether someone can take Eucharist. The Eucharist is a sacred right, not something that gets a Bishop’s name in the paper. I don’t see the Church kicking out people who support the death penalty.
The Church should be inclusive, not exclusive.
Students at UC-Santa Cruz vacated an Administration building they had taken over as a protest to tuition hikes because they were threatened with arrest.
This is the problem with my generation. Even when we find something that is worth protesting, we give up when we are threatened with something that may negatively affect our personal future. I’ll be honest, I probably would have left too. But, can you imagine where we would be at today if the protesters in the 1960s quit upon threat of arrest?
Banks are buying risky, discounted mortgages. They then reduce the mortgage so the homeowners can afford payments (good deed). By doing that, they can then refinance the mortgage through FHA and other government-backed programs. They then sell the mortgage and pocket a sizeable profit, with most or all of the risk now on the government.
The Blockbuster near me is going out of business (though I would argue that has more to do with a failing business model due to Netflix and Redbox than the economic crisis).
I was able to buy Babel, Casino, American Gangster, and Fever Pitch for a little over $20.
Plus, they had a 7” digital picture frame for $42. I bought it.
Roger Ebert goes on a Limerick binge. Here are two of my favorites
- A commenter
A student from Champaign-Urbana
Did stunning things with a banana
If she huffed and blew
She could even out-do
Rivals with cigars from Havana
Ebert’s response:
Two horny students from Madison
Checked into a lenient Radisson.
They f*cked through the night
On the left, then the right,
And their parents inherited a grandson.
My friend Natalie taking a trapeze lesson. I don’t know where she finds this stuff, but it looks awesome.
I can’t get my wireless router to work since I moved. I can connect to the ‘local network’, but not the internet. (I can get online directly through the modem). So I called Linksys for product support and they would only help me if I paid them $25. Since I only paid $30 for a new router when I bought it, I told them to fuck off.
I now refuse to buy any future Linksys products and you should do the same.
Come on Senate, pass this shit (especially the State Appropriations bill).
When I was in high school and summers during college, my friends and I got together on Sunday nights to play soccer. We only had two rules in our games: (1) No keeping score; and (2) No hands. How is it that a bunch of carefree Iowan teenagers did a better job of policing the rules than FIFA? Ireland got screwed.
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse student Adam Bauer has nearly 400 friends on Facebook. He got an offer for a new one about a month ago. “She was a good-looking girl. I usually don’t accept friends I don’t know, but I randomly accepted this one for some reason,” the 19-year-old said.
He thinks that led to his invitation to come down to the La Crosse police station, where an officer laid out photos from Facebook of Bauer holding a beer — and then ticketed him for underage drinking.
The police report said Bauer admitted drinking, which he denies. But he did plead no contest in municipal court Wednesday and will pay a $227 fine.
He was among at least eight people who said Wednesday they had been cited for underage drinking based on photos on social networking sites.
Christ.
I just love when police action is about money, not justice. The underaged should be smarter, but this still irks me.
They are fools for pleading no contest (essentially a guilty plea). Do you know how hard it is to prove that there was alcohol in the container that they were drinking from. I don’t care if the photo showed a bottle of beer with the Natty Light label facing the camera. A good lawyer could point out that there is no proof of what is in the bottle. (Whenever I had open container cases, the officers would always have to testify about the smell of alcohol and the color and consistency of the drink). It is harder than it seems.
Dear California,
Education matters. You should fix this.
Sincerely,
Al
Still no phone call, but the rationale for the smaller class size in January has been made clear. I had previously thought that the full appropriations bill had been passed for State, but it turns out that’s not true. State is still working on a Continuing Resolution. The 70 or so spots in the January class uses up the last of the CR money. They can’t offer any more spots until they have money.
What does this mean? If the appropriations bill is passed before Congress’ Christmas break, we believe they will offer more spots for January class. This works well for me because I can start on short notice. Conversely, it appears that no offers for February will go out until that appropriations bill passes. So, while I had hoped offers would start the week after Thanksgiving, it looks like we may be waiting longer. Waiting longer means that there is a chance that people will be cleared and placed on the register above me.
So, if you happen to work on the Hill or know someone who does, please try to get the appropriations bill passed.
I went out to get into my car this morning and I noticed that the side mirror had been broken. I started cursing under my breath before I quickly realized that wasn’t my car. But, where was my car? It wasn’t parked where I left it. I kept trying to figure out who in the world would want to steal my 200 Ford Focus, when I noticed the sign - “Parking is for residents only. All others will be towed.”
Now, clearly, I am a resident. I forgot, however, to put my parking decal on my car. So, they towed it. (For the record, there is no shortage of parking spaces in my complex. Why they have such stringent parking rules and enforcement is beyond me).
I phoned the tow company and someone groggily answered. They confirmed they had towed my car. The guy said he would meet me at the impound lot. I asked him to pick me up (since I didn’t have a car to get there), but he told me it was close enough to walk. He was right and I actually beat him there. It cost me $65 to get my car out of the lot (I wanted to break into the lot and put the decal on the car and say he just missed it, but the place was locked up well enough to prevent that). I was 45 minutes late to work.
But that will not control my day. I will still have a good day.
