Late last week, the House of Representatives announced they were seeking additional funding for the Cash for Clunkers program. The program, which allocated 1 billion dollars in subsidies and government assistance to those trading older, less fuel efficient cars for newer models with better gas mileage, will shut down Tuesday without new funding despite being [...] Read more »
Tonight marks Ignite Boulder V, an event so enormously popular that they’ve moved to the Boulder Theater and begun charging for tickets. Despite purchasing my ticket well in advance, I’m not attending in protest to the way in which my presentation was treated. Several weeks ago, when submission and voting began, I was confident I [...] Read more »
Actress Eva Mendes rolls her Rs. In the American school system, students are usually given the choice of French or Spanish when it comes time to take a language. I know in the Denver area German is an option, but not in Boston. Seeing as I had been indoctrinated to French—my mom grew up in [...] Read more »
It’s 5 AM in Prague and I’m crouched in a stairwell. The second presidential debate just ended on CNN Europe and I kept running tabs of the whole thing. I’ll post the entirety of my notes below, but you’re better off just getting transcript if you’re interested. Matt’s disappointed. He thinks Obama bombed. Matt is [...] Read more »
Hammocks at Jeff’s Pirate Cove are clearly marked for “adult relaxation only.” For more adult pictures of Guam, click here. As I hiked past old ordinance, decaying weapons, the rusted silhouettes of old buildings and crumbled latte stones (that’s lah-tee, not lah-tay), I began to wonder what life on Guam is truly like. Here [...] Read more »
“Have you seen the god damn ratings?” he screamed, his red power tie flailing as we cowered in our executive chairs. “The fucking Teletubbies are beating us! I don’t even know what a Boobah is!” Mack Herbovitz slammed his fist on the table, the small glasses of ice water rippling with the force of the [...] Read more »
I know our President has promised that we would pull out several times. I also know he’s gone back on his word on each occasion so far. It’s sad that this has happened and that we’ve had to break promises, but it is not the will of the religious right. You see, my pastor told [...] Read more »
Today, I began reading Michael Moore’s Dude, Where’s My Country? I’m just over a chapter in and already I’m filled with anger and disbelief. This anger and disbelief is not aimed, as the book seems to intend, at the Bush administration. Nor is it aimed at Michael Moore, for his cries and questions are not [...] Read more »