A view from the hip

USA Today pulled a photograph of Condoleezza Rice from its website after a weblog revealed it was manipulated, giving the secretary of state a menacing, demon-eyesing stare.

I’m pretty sure someone got fired over this. She looks mean in both pictures.

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3. Massachusetts
4. New Jersey
5. Maine?

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46. California
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48. New Mexico
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Stay Saved Premillenialist Christians Shouldn’t Drive

I’m sure everyone here has been driving and seen the bumper sticker that reads “In case of Rapture, car will be unmanned.” While this never fails to inspire some very action-movie style daydreams and exciting video game premises, it also brings up a far more practical issue: should saved Christians be allowed to drive?

One would think that, if we don’t grant driver’s licences to narcoleptics, epileptics, or other people who may, at random, lose all control of their careening vehicle, we sure as hell won’t grant a license to someone who may just up and disappear without warning. But, this never seems to come up.

I’m willing also to consider legislation that would provide for them the right to pilot small, possibly electric city-cars that are speed-limited to 25 MPH, contain adequate warning lights and signage, and, upon detection of loss of driver (via a simple switch in the seat that disengages when the driver is raptured away) sounds a warning klaxon as it slowly comes to a safe, controlled stop under automatic control.

Amen!

Yale is banning drinking games from this year’s football game against Harvard and will shut down all tailgate parties after halftime — a move some alumni say could put a damper on one of college football’s oldest and most storied rivalries.

The Ivy League contest, known simply as “The Game,” dates to 1875 and draws nearly as many fans outside the stadium as inside. Students and alumni fill U-Hauls with kegs, grills and hard liquor

“We don’t want to send hordes of students to the hospital after each game. Drinking games are meant to get people drunk,”

I play drinking games mainly for the camaraderie and the love of the game.

What harm can a little binge drinking at Yale cause?

U.S. death toll in Iraq reaches 2,000

U.S. and Japanese officials have agreed to let the U.S. Navy station a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in Japan for the first time,

Although American troops have been based in Japan since the end of World War II, the Japanese public has long been wary of a U.S. nuclear presence

I couldn’t possibly understand why Japan wouldn’t want a US nuclear presence.

Oh shit I forgot about this

The decision comes 60 years after the United States dropped two nuclear bombs on Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki