Posted 10/31/2003 06:43:00 PM by Douglas

Allison Brown has some interesting observations of the differences between women and men, and why women don't make good libertarians:

I, like most women, see the individual person, not the representation of so much of what is wrong with society today. We tend to ignore the forest and look at the trees. Men, in general, are much more able to look past the trees and decide what is best for the forest as a whole.

She makes some other observations that are kinda broad (he he, get it? broad) but that one is dead on.

Posted 10/31/2003 06:41:00 PM by Douglas

Let's say you're the leader of the free world. Fifteen years ago, your dad held the same position. But now, instead of doting you with adulation, he awards your biggest enemy. That's right, folks, the 2003 George Bush Award for Excellence in Public Service is going to Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy at the George Bush Presidential Library in College Station, Texas, on November 7th. I sure hope I can get tickets to that! Here's the condensed version:

Father Bush has done it in his own preferred nuanced way -- the way Establishment gentlemen operate -- but he has revealed the depth of his disagreement with his impetuously uninformed son.

Ouch. Sounds like Poppy's pissed.

Posted 10/30/2003 10:43:00 PM by Douglas

Thanks to the Coen Brothers, I’ll never be able to hear “Maricopa County” and not crack a smile. But this is actually pretty sad, considering the circumstances.

Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time.

Posted 10/30/2003 10:15:00 PM by Douglas

In the middle of the Victorian era in America, the largest structure in North America was built in the middle of a river. It took almost 15 years to build, and only 27 people died during the construction. For comparison, 96 died 50 years later during the construction of Hoover dam.

So, for anyone that’s walked across, flown under, proposed on it, or jumped off it, keep in mind that when it was built, it was the tallest structure on either shore.

Posted 10/30/2003 07:46:00 PM by Douglas

Hey! That guy looks like Kenny Rogers! Well now you can submit a photo.

Posted 10/30/2003 07:41:00 PM by Douglas

Guinness Book of Records: What an unabashed waste of time. I wonder if he got all 154 clothes pins on his face if he'd been happy with himself, of if he'd gone on for 156.

I wonder if he puts this on his resume.

Posted 10/29/2003 09:26:00 PM by Douglas

Dustin Hoffman is an idiot:

"I was particularly surprised by the omission given my opposition to the loophole that makes it legal for 18- to 20-year-olds to buy handguns at gun shows," he added.

There is no such thing as a "gun-show loophole" and every anti-gun nut out there only exposes their ignorance when they make such asinine statements. Every sale from a Federally licensed firearm dealer must follow the same paperwork and background checks that every other dealer must follow. A sale at a gun show from one private citizen, selling their own property to someone else, isn't a "loophole". It's more like a garage sale.

Anyway, why is the NRA making lists of people that are on opposite sides of the political spectrum? We know the NRA are in trouble, but making a list of "people we don't like" is just a little too Jr. High, it seems.

Posted 10/29/2003 09:15:00 PM by Douglas

Insurance companies rule the country, example #587. How much do these "black boxes" cost, and what benefit am I getting from it, since I'm the one that paid for it. (The one in my car, anyway.) Since it seems like the only useful purpose they would have is to asses liability after a collision, I really don't see how they could justify a universal implementation.

And why are we just now finding out about them if they've used them for 13 years? It doesn't sound like we're getting the whole story on this one.

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Posted 10/29/2003 08:43:00 PM by Douglas

So after supplying Al Franken with a truck load of free publicity when he came out with his new book, Fox News then set their sights on The Simpsons for making fun of their crawler. I wonder how long it took them to realize they have the same boss? But that's not the best part of this:

"Now Fox has a new rule that we can't do those little fake news crawls on the bottom of the screen in a cartoon because it might confuse the viewers into thinking it's real news," he said.

So it wasn't that Fox News go upset for the ridicule of their right-leaning news with such quips as "JFK posthumously joins Republican Party" or "Study: 92 per cent of Democrats are gay", it was that a viewer might turn on their TVs, tune into The Simpsons, see the crawler, and actually think they were watching Fox News.

Posted 10/29/2003 08:35:00 PM by Douglas

If you're making a controversial movie where you play Jesus Christ and you get struck by lightning it may be time to talk to your agent.

Posted 10/29/2003 08:24:00 AM by Douglas

What a tragedy. One less topless club in Amarillo as The Cage closes its doors due to lack of zoning compliance. I think a strip club next door to an ice cream parlor sounds like a great idea, although it's best to be sure you're in the right place when you asked for a "dipped cone."

Also, what is it about strip clubs and "Grandfather clauses" that makes me thing of dirty old men?

Posted 10/28/2003 05:22:00 PM by Douglas

Yet another list. Top ten discoveries Thermodynamics should be higher than 9, but I'm a bit biased.

Posted 10/28/2003 05:15:00 PM by Douglas

A very interesting piece on diamonds, their inflated value and scarcity, and how one company made it that way. Never underestimate a woman and her affinity for shiny things.

Posted 10/27/2003 08:13:00 PM by Douglas

Celebrities. Is there anything they can't do? Dennis Miller is an idiot, but that's not what really bugs me about stories bitching about the government wasting money. NASA may be a bloated inefficient bureaucracy, but it's certainly not a bottomless money pit, either. NASA receives 0.7% of the total federal budget. It sounds like he's not upset that the government is wasting the money, but that it's not wasting it the way he wants it wasted.

Posted 10/23/2003 10:23:00 PM by Douglas

Concorde: RIP. 100 years after the first heavier than air, powered manned flight, we get this progress. Pilot Dennis Toeppen says it best

"I feel like we are kind of taking a step backward technologically today."

For the first half of the 20th century, it was "faster and bigger" in all of aviation. But when the average Cletus didn't want to pay to go supersonic, it made air travel look like getting on a bus. Which is what it is now. Although I could probably never afford it, I'm going to miss it.

Posted 10/23/2003 09:43:00 PM by Douglas

There's just so much of this reparations story that I find amusing, I just don't know where to begin.

• How in the hell did they get they get a $500,000 check from the IRS? I had no idea it was that easy to get half a mil. I figured there was a cutoff, $10K, $50K, somewhere in there, that would raise a few eyebrows at the IRS before they just sent out a check. Apparently not.
• It's even possible to blow that much money in a week? Man, did they even sleep? Is anyone surprised that they bought a Benz?
• Now that they got their money from the United States government, they are now renouncing their citizenship and saying the federal court has no jurisdiction over them.
• They were angry with the legacy of slavery in this country, and their actions put them behind bars. Irony, anyone?

Posted 10/23/2003 09:26:00 PM by Douglas

Hiring illegals and passing the savings on to you. The truly ironic part is that anyone that shops at Wal-Mart to save 14 cents on a box of pop tarts isn't going to care if they break the law. They just want cheap, imported crap.

Posted 10/23/2003 09:14:00 PM by Douglas

Having recently taken a trip to the top of the UT tower, I find this story particularly interesting. I knew he brought a bunch of stuff up there and he planned to make a day of it (and almost did), but jeez. You'd think a guy carrying a footlocker to the main building would raise an eyebrow. I guess not. Here's another pretty good source of The Tower Sniper.

Posted 10/22/2003 07:54:00 AM by Douglas

This is scary. I think we can all agree that photographing people in public for "purposes of sexual gratification" is probably a bad thing, but it seems like determining where that line is may prove to be difficult. Obviously, if you're filming a video camera up some girl's skirt, that probably doesn't have a happy ending. But does that mean taking pictures of a woman in a bikini at the beach is illegal? And why does videotaping someone's crotch without their knowledge in Texas carry the same fine as trapping a skunk in your yard in Oklahoma?

Posted 10/22/2003 07:53:00 AM by Douglas

I can understand the point of view of the animal control guy: He doesn't want to get sprayed by a skunk any more than the rest of us. But to fine a woman $500 for trapping the skunk in her yard with an "unapproved" trap? I think it's a smaller threat to the community than if she pulled out her .22 and started firing away at it, which I'm pretty sure is plan B in a situation like this.

Posted 10/21/2003 09:06:00 AM by Douglas

Here's the follow-up story to the "fellatio and breast cancer" story that I linked to last week that was quickly taken down, obviously for legal reason. I had a feeling CNN would be all over that guy, like a duck on a June bug. It's funny that real papers picked up on the story and ran with it.

Posted 10/17/2003 10:44:00 PM by Douglas

Just what Texas needs: another freakin' lotto. Last I heard, Lotto Texas wasn't doing that hot. So what's this one going to do for their sales? The only way I'd buy one of these things is if they "lotto" us into a state income tax.

Posted 10/17/2003 10:42:00 PM by Douglas

Lilek's take on Tarantino's new one, Kill Bill: Vol. 1, pretty much sums up my thoughts of the movie and the director:

It's like the dialogue he wrote for "Crimson Tide" - it clangs on the ear. It jumps up and down and demands attention. Listen to me, listen to me! I'm a clever boy who knows the distinctions between Silver Age Jack Kirby "Silver Surfer" comic books and the latter artists whose work will always stand in their shadow! None of this matters, but I know the difference and you don't, and that makes me matter.

Here's another piece from the Star Tribune, (which may require registration.) It's not that he doesn't make good movies, and the violence doesn't really bother me. But his general weenie-ness accompanied by the "If you knew as much as I do about film noir from the 60s and Hong Kong from the 70s, you'd really enjoy this more" attitude that makes me want to watch baseball. Lileks has the perfect spin on his "tough guy" image, as well:

What makes it worse is knowing that if QT ever used mob money to make a film and fell behind on the payments, he would be shrieking like a gored pig the moment they started to bend his pinky back.

Posted 10/16/2003 04:26:00 PM by Douglas

If there's anyone that still doesn't think that google is the best search engine out there, read this. I had no idea it was so cool. I saw the calculator function a few weeks ago, but it was the conversion stuff that I thought was really interesting.

Posted 10/16/2003 04:25:00 PM by Douglas

Another brilliant ideas from the annals of middle management. If this school district really wants its employees to plan pregnancies around their sick days, maybe their employer will allot a specified time for them to become impregnated? I'm sure it'd be better than that film they show in Jr. High.

Posted 10/15/2003 03:46:00 PM by Douglas

You gotta feel sorry for poor Steve Bartman. Not only does he have the unfortunate last name of a music video The Simpsons released in the early 90s, he now has to deal the nagging criticisms of keeping the Cub's curse alive. The headline here is pretty funny, too: The spit hits the fan after souvenir try goes awry

The Cub's loss isn't his fault. Anyone would have done the same thing if they didn't see Alou headed their way (which he obviously didn't). But it wasn't Steve's fault that they gave up 8 runs in the 8th inning. That's was all Cubs.

Posted 10/14/2003 04:09:00 PM by Douglas

The Many Benefits of Sex I wonder if this is going to be published in next month's issue of Duh! magazine? I don't need a fancy medical study to tell me that sex helps with depression.

Posted 10/14/2003 04:06:00 PM by Douglas

No more men. I've heard that most genetic diseases are carried along the Y chromosome, but this little nugget may be too much. Where are the little girls going to come from if there aren't any little boys? This is bad news for NASCAR and the NFL, but good news for Martha Stewart and Meg Ryan movies.

Posted 10/14/2003 09:28:00 AM by Douglas

Here's the follow up to the Oz-Fest in Liberal.

Posted 10/12/2003 07:47:00 PM by Douglas

Kinky Friedman for Governor! "Don't forget, man's ability to delude himself is infinite." How could you possibly argue with such wisdom as these three excellent points:

• Let's see what happens together
• How hard could it be?
• If you elect me the first Jewish governor, I'll reduce the speed limit to 54.95

Obviously, Kinky's got soundbite for every occasion, but top this one:

"But if Lance Armstrong and Willie Nelson stay out of the race, you're probably talking to the next governor of Texas"

Hell, he'd do just as good as Arnold.

"Some things are too important to be taken seriously, and this is one of them."

All this coming from the man that ran for Justice of the Peace in Kerrville under the slogan "I'll keep us out of war with Fredericksburg!" He didn't even win that election and he can claim that one as a victory.

Posted 10/12/2003 06:53:00 PM by Douglas

Well, it looks like the munchkins are back in Kansas, Toto. Liberal, Kansas, to be exact.

Posted 10/11/2003 10:19:00 AM by Douglas

Take the "Which FARK Cliche Are You" quiz!

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Posted 10/10/2003 04:34:00 PM by Douglas

"There're Munchkins in there!!" I don't know why it strikes me as funny that the Oz Munchkins would stop by The Big Texan in Amarillo on their way to the reunion in Liberal, Kansas. Maybe it's the picture of the munchkin with the free, 72oz steak. I wonder if he finished it in a hour? It's sad that Toto made more money than the munchkins did. And how do you pay a dog, anyway?

Posted 10/10/2003 04:34:00 PM by Douglas

Ah, the perfect futility of zero-tolerence drug laws at schools. The glorified baby-sitter / social worker at the school that had to enforce this rule had to do so with a straight face. At least you'd hope.

Posted 10/10/2003 04:34:00 PM by Douglas

You see a headline that has the words "91-year old man" and "bank robber" in the same sentence and you're not read it? If for nothing else, you want to make sure you don't have any money at the banks he's successfully robbed.

Posted 10/10/2003 04:33:00 PM by Douglas

This is the reason there's so many ugly cars? I don't think it's that simple to say simply "we want something different." I like the whole "cars designed by wind tunnels (and congress) basically suck" approach.

Posted 10/10/2003 04:31:00 PM by Douglas

"After falling from a shrimp boat, she spent a night in the gulf". This woman's got to be tough as nails The only guy that could come close would be the guy that hacked off his arm with a Swiss army knife.

Posted 10/09/2003 06:08:00 PM by Douglas

This one's from May, so I'm a little late in the bashing of Bush's joblessness, but the numbers are pretty damning. I'm not one to oft quote The Nation but even Jimmy Carter had a positive number. Interesting, non the less, when you hear G'dub say today the economy has turned around. Something to think about with the election 13 months away.

Posted 10/09/2003 04:24:00 PM by Douglas

Beer saves man's life. Anyone still questioning the usefulness of the sweet, nourishing nectar of the Gods should just. . . .um, have a beer, I guess.

Posted 10/09/2003 04:23:00 PM by Douglas

This guy does an excellent job with the CNN looking website, but I must admit, it wasn't the URL that tipped me off that this was fake. It was this:

In a study of over 15,000 women suspected of having performed regular fellatio over the past ten years. . .

They were able to find 15,000 "suspected" of having regular fellatio? Yeah, right.

Posted 10/09/2003 04:22:00 PM by Douglas

Miller Beer: Is there anything it can't do? When you're robbing a bank with beer, it's probably best to take a breather once you've made your get away.

Posted 10/09/2003 04:21:00 PM by Douglas

This lady's got some balls: Big ones. Your son dying on the job is one thing, but committing suicide after he goes postal and kills 3 others? Good luck.

Posted 10/08/2003 06:57:00 PM by Douglas

I was thinking about going down for the free anonymous depression screening, but then I thought, "What's the use? No one cares anyway." This sounds like an "old people with nothing to do on Thursday" screening. But at least there's a video!

Posted 10/08/2003 06:36:00 PM by Douglas

Why do all these stories make it sound like cell phone providers are terrified of the notion of number portability? If any of the cell companies were worth a damn, they'd be trying to get ready for record numbers of new customers on November 24th, as opposed to bracing for their existing customers fleeing like rats from a sinking ship.

With consumers able to keep cell phone numbers, they will be more likely to switch carriers. That should spur competition, bringing better prices and services, consumer advocates say.

First off, check your bill: I've been paying for this crap since July. It's as if they're finally having to admit that their service sucks, and the only reason people stay with their provider is because of their number. Get ready for 5 year contracts.

Case in point: After 2 and a half years with a provider that rhymes with rent, I need a new phone. I currently don't have a contract, but to get $100 credit for a new phone, I have to sign another 2 year contract. Looking around the store, I see that they only have one $100 phone; the cheapest one there. However, if I was a new customer, I could get two kick-ass Samsung phones for $79, for the same two year contract!

I tried to explain to the troglodyte behind the desk that I could get a better deal if I terminated service and started over, but if I was going to go to the trouble to do that, I was going to start over with someone else.

He told me that sounded like a better idea. I'd do it, if I thought there was a better one out there.

Posted 10/07/2003 11:48:00 AM by Douglas

Small town Vs. Wal-Mart, part 3,210. I wonder who's going to win this on? Small towns don't have a good record in this fight.

Posted 10/07/2003 11:45:00 AM by Douglas

Words of wisdom on prescription drugs from Ron Paul.

Prescription drugs are tremendously expensive, but the solution is not a wasteful new one-size-fits-all government drug entitlement. To lower drug prices, we must eliminate government interference that prevents healthy free-market price competition.

Reminds me of this quote from P. J. O'Rourke regarding Hillary's health care plan in '93: " If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free."

Posted 10/06/2003 07:26:00 PM by Douglas

Wanna write a poem?
What the hell is a haiku?
Just keep the format.

Posted 10/06/2003 07:24:00 PM by Douglas

Global warming, anyone? Argue with the satellite. It's silly to interpret a short period (like 10 years) and extrapolate long term climate trends. It's also myopic to see the North American glaciers disappear and think its due to cow flatulence. The one good upside of all this is that global warming/raising sea level will probably, once and for all, flush Houston into the sea like the gigantic turd that it is. Learn to swim, folks.

Posted 10/06/2003 07:16:00 PM by Douglas

You jump out of a plane and still manage to hit a bridge on your way down? It seems that the forces of nature, whether it's wild animals or plain ole' gravity, are having a hell of a time this week reeking havoc on humanity. Or maybe this is President Bush's unemployment plan: All these chunder-headed dunderpates just off themselves.

Posted 10/06/2003 12:06:00 PM by Douglas

This may be the only blog in the world that hasn't done a list of some sort, so in response to last week's 10 technologies that need to die, I've come up with my own list of my own. Here they are, in no particular order. Things that need to disappear:

• Skate Boards. Say you're the parent of a teenaged boy. What is worse news? He got a skateboard, or he started smoking? I don't think smoking is as much of a waste of time as skateboarding, and it's certainly less annoying to the general public.
  
• Portable DVD players. Do you really need to watch movies all the damn time? I know, most people justify these things by using them in their cars, usually for kids. Yet another opportunity to get your kids to mindlessly stare at a screen, rather than the world that is going on around them. They don't get enough TV at home?
  
• Blogging. Ok, there are some decent ones out there, but the majority of them are overwrought high school girls or wannabe politicos [sometimes both] that think they can do a better job than The New York Times if they'd just get a chance. News Flash: Nobody gives a shit what you think about fuel cell cars. Just think of all the bandwidth blogging is robbing from legitimate porn.
  
• Sports commentators. They're everywhere; on TV, radio, newspapers, magazines. Everywhere you look someone's getting paid to internalize the actions of athletes. It's time we left the children's games to the children and opened a dialog about things that really matter: Entertainment news.
  
• Humans with wild animals. You've got the guy getting killed by the bull at the rodeo, you've got this story about they guy in NYC that had tigers and gators as pets, and of course, you have Roy mauled on stage in Vegas. What part of wild in wild animal is ambiguous?
  
• Grocery store discount cards. Why on earth do people carry around different bar-coded cards on their key rings just so they can save 17¢ on a box of Grape-Nuts? I know the stores do this for marketing reasons, but there's got to be a less intrusive way for them to figure out how much cheese I eat a month. Yet another reason HEB is the promised land of grocery stores.
  
• Insurance. All of it. They love to point out the fact that they're always there after a disaster picking up the pieces in your time of need. The truth is they're in it for the money. You pay into the system your whole life and they have mountains of data that shows that statistically, you won't ever need them. Because if you did, they'd have to raise your premium. What if you saved that money and took care of your own crisis?
  
• Car Alarms. Every time I hear a car alarm go off, I think to myself: Oh no! That's the sound of an automobile in peril! It needs help! If only there was some caped superhero that would rescuse all the cars that are so desparately crying out for help. Seriously, does anyone even notice these things anymore? They're the annoying background noise, the hot poker in the auditory canal, of modern living.

Ok, enough of that. I'm sure I could get more than eight items, but really, who cares?

Posted 10/06/2003 12:06:00 PM by Douglas

The weekly fuel cell cars are the wave of the future article. The world would be a better place if every vehicle created no pollution and was powered by fuel that was cheap, clean and abundant. But that's not the world we live in. Aside from being explosive and highly unstable [like Courtney Love], hydrogen is very hard to come by [un-like Courtney Love].

Posted 10/06/2003 12:05:00 PM by Douglas

Good to see that A&M now posses some important holy relics. And to think that UT got stuck with a Gutenberg Bible. I'm sure the average brain dead aggie would put the same veneration on a lawn mower muffler and some aluminum shavings as most people put on a Gutenberg bible. After all, what the hell would an aggie do with a book, anyway? All the pictures are already colored in.

Posted 10/06/2003 12:04:00 PM by Douglas

Pumpkins: a real growth industry. Remember: you've got to sell your pumpkin futures before Halloween!

Posted 10/04/2003 08:43:00 PM by Douglas

18 year old rodeo dude, killed by a bull. As the saying goes, you fuck with the bull, you'll get the horns. This doesn't happen near enough, IMHO.

Posted 10/04/2003 12:15:00 PM by Douglas

Aggie Bonfire: the triumph of hope over experience. I'm sure the lack of a bonfire there is a violation of their civil rights, or some such tradition.

Posted 10/04/2003 12:14:00 PM by Douglas

Good to know that the shoe department at the Brownwood Wal-Mart is still safe. This reminds me of the McKenzie brothers in Strange Brew when they tried to get a free case of beer by raising a mouse in a beer bottle. "You gotta get a baby mouse. . . "

Posted 10/04/2003 12:14:00 PM by Douglas

Poor Lusi. All he wanted was to go and score some dope, and how was he thanked? With a bullet in the head.

"His wife was reading the paper, and she said, 'I think you shot the police's dog"' Baptiste said. "He said 'Tell me you're kidding."'

This is pretty sad, but I don't now why I think it's funny that a farmer shot the Sheriff's drug dog.

Posted 10/04/2003 12:13:00 PM by Douglas

I think the billboard sounds pretty funny. But if the billboard had shown the woman with a leather strap tied around her, intentionally constricting her genitals so she'd buck more and be more aggressive (such as the case with rodeo bulls), well, that would have been too much. For a billboard, anyway.

Posted 10/04/2003 12:13:00 PM by Douglas

Yet another shining example that we don't live in a just universe. You're driving down the street, 18 years old and happy as a clam. You drive through an intersection because you have a green light, then WHAM! Some asshat kills you and puts your friend in the ICU because he's running from the cops. No Justice for something like this.

Posted 10/04/2003 12:42:00 AM by Douglas

Roy attacked by, get this, TIGERS Who'd a thunk it?

Posted 10/04/2003 12:38:00 AM by Douglas

The latest round of SNL bashing, and I must say that some of it is deserved, but I think the author hasn't watched the show in quite a few years, and doesn't have a clue as to what she's talking about. I'm going to tie in these next two quote, because they belong with each other:

The last really good utility player the show had was Ferrell, whose loss was felt acutely last year, and now with the departure of Chris Kattan, it has also bid farewell to its most impressive weirdo. Jimmy Fallon can hit high notes, as can Tina Fey and Rachel Dratch, but after that, the quality drops off alarmingly.

"SNL" has also largely abandoned genuine political satire. Granted, it has always mixed its cerebral humor with a generous helping of straightforward silliness, but it seems recently to have adopted a remarkably toothless attitude toward current events.

Obviously, this yahoo, hasn't seen Darryl Hammond. He's a genius, no ifs, ands or buts. Political satire, or just plain impersonation. The man's a master.

SNL may be in for a rut, and it certainly has seen many before. But to compare it to The Daily Show, well, that's just apples and oranges.

Posted 10/02/2003 10:50:00 PM by Douglas

Great piece about more gun laws not resulting in less crime. And here's another one from another source. This is the kicker:

An independent panel has found "insufficient evidence" to rate the effectiveness of various gun laws in the United States.

Come on. . . who could argue with that?

Posted 10/01/2003 01:44:00 PM by Douglas

A very interesting piece regarding our current (lack of) educational system. A bit hyperbolic at points, bordering on conspiracy theory nuttery, but good points, non the less.

". . . the aim of public education is not to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence. ... Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim ... is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. That is its aim in the United States... and that is its aim everywhere else."

That may be a stretch (then again, it might not), but Inglis' 6 points regarding the purpose of the public school are pretty much right on the money.

Posted 10/01/2003 01:44:00 PM by Douglas

Who would have thought that a good portion of life at UT would consist of drinking yourself stupid? Oh yeah, everyone I knew in college.

It's also nice to see this $3.2Million research is called "The UT Experience!" I guess "Drunk!" would have been blissfully understated. . .