Politics

I really don't know what to make of this. It seems that everyone + brother is now hopping on the anti-BCS bandwagon. The coaches don't like the way the BCS works, leaving out worthy teams as certain "Big Conferences" get automatic championship bids while others have to claw and fight for them. The Fans aren't to happy with the BCS (unless you are a Texas, USC, OSU, or sometimes Flordia fan). Even President Obama has said he wants to push for a change in how College Football Championships are decided.

But now, even the House of Representatives have gotten in on the game. The Yahoo! News article linked tells us that the HoR has now passed a bill (well, a committee within the House has, at least) that states that you can't call it a Championship unless it's played through a playoff schedule. So, while so many Americans are unemployed or on the brink of bankruptcy, a war rages on, no one seems to be able to tell the American people exactly WHERE our nearly 1 TRILLION dollars worth of bailout money went, and no one can come to a decision on health care, They decided to try to regulate College Football. read more »

I was reading the local mail chatlist when once again the discussion started about "us versus them" in regards to the "natives" of Chatham County and the "transplants" who have moved in here over the last several years or even decades. The main target of my ire was Rita with the Hyphenated Name, who's basic argument was "Shut up, if you don't like it, go back where you came from" which has been a pervasive ideology across the south since Reconstruction. I decided to reply to her post, and every other post on the topic, and this is my reply:

I wanted to thank Rita with the hyphenated last name and the others who've jumped in to once again add fuel to the us/them argument. And I wanted to thank all those locals for once again reminding me in the most polite of terms that I am not "native", will never be "native", should not consider myself a "local", and should just smile and keep my mouth shut because being an "outsider" means that I don't have the right to want, work for, hope for, or embrace changes that could make my life better. read more »

ESPN has an update on the story about the High School senior who got 10 years in prison for getting a blow job. The article is very well written and honestly, this idiocy in Georgia makes my blood boil.

For history, the kid was a 17 year old senior in high school. He was a football player AND had a reported 3.2GPA. He was being recruited by a lot of schools and would have had a chance to make a good life for himself. His only mistake was getting oral sex from a 15 year old girl at a New Years party.

The sad part of this story is that if he had had full on sex with the 15 year old girl, he would have only been charged with a misdemeanor offense, gotten off and gone on with his life. However, since he had ORAL sex, he got charged with a felony. read more »

[note] This exciting election year coverage came to you live on 2 November 2004!

Wow... this years election is certainly shaping up to be an exciting one. It smacks of the 2000 election, but hopefully there wont be as big an issue over dimpled chads in Broward County as there was then. Personally, I am hoping Bush wins, but its going to be too close to really say.

It is amazing to me, watching the coverage how these people are claiming victory though, based solely on what the AP or some other news agency is saying. For example, here in NC, Richard Burr just announced, thanks the to the AP that he has won the Senate seat he is vying for. He IS ahead, but with only 65 percent of the precints reporting. How exactly does that work? What happens if those remaining districts report a different outcome, AFTER Burr gives the victory speech? Personally, I dont care who wins most these races. I voted Libertarian. But it still amazes me how he is out giving victory speeches when there is still a third of the state left to report the tally. read more »