Time for Senator John Cornyn to apologize and resign. Now. And perhaps he could give Representative DeLay a ride home? (Does he really want to think that one out too far, given the way Americans are supposed to feel about Congress?)

I only hope the date updated (4/1/05) on this professor’s webpage is indicative of the spirit in which it was offered. :| Link courtesy of EdCone.com

"…This is your time." Jackie Manuel #5 Jawad Williams #21 Melvin Scott #1 Images courtesy of Inside Carolina

You know, I kind of remember this, but I have no idea why I never attended it when I was in Blacksburg. Maybe I was always broke by that time? Nah, it’s only $20. :) I wonder why the site shows up as black with black text, though.

A rambling read, exploring the Indus Valley to the Exodus to Tanelorn, Michael Moorcock’s Eternal City. Courtesy of Fantastic Metropolis

A review of Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers, from The Revealer. Sample quote: In religious terms, according to teenagers, God cares that each teenager is happy and that each teenager has high self-esteem. Morality has nothing to do with authority, mutual obligations, or sacrifice. In a sense, God wants little more for us than to be good, happy capitalists. Smith and Denton elaborate: “Therapeutic individualism’s ethos perfectly serves the needs and interests of U.S. mass-consumer capitalist economy by constituting people as self-fulfillment-oriented consumers subject to advertising’s influence on their subjective feelings.” And to be good, happy capitalists, we should be good, unless if being good prevents us from being happy. ...

“84-year-old Pontiff ‘serene and calm’ after suffering heart failure.” “Pope John Paul II suffered heart failure and is in ‘very grave’ condition, the Vatican said Friday, but it said he was lucid and spent the morning celebrating Mass and receiving top aides, asking one to read him the biblical account of Christ’s crucifixion and burial.” One figures that resuscitation might fit in there somewhere, but he’s a tough old guy, so maybe he’s just soldiering on. ...

First, The Jackie Manuel Experience. Second, that “other” Carolina wins that “other” national championship. Go, Dave Odom!

Arrrrrrr! Link courtesy of White Noise Update: The Pirate Captain received 44% of the vote, forcing a runoff. Update, again: The Pirate Captain has won.

boringboring… Update: Another good parody site… I like the ad on the upper right. “Vaguely Depressed but still Naked.” :) And the original...