Archive for August, 2008
With harsh criticism coming from MADD against the Amethyst Initiative, is a national discussion and debate needed over the growing alcohol problem on college campuses and across America today?
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Tags: 1984, 21, Act, age, amethyst, binge, college presidents, drinking, driving, initiative, MADD, Minimum, National, responsibility, underage, university
Der Fadderland Knows Best
First off my name is Kurt, I will be guest writing on TWB from time to time as Josh has invited me to. I hope that you will find my posts as interesting, thought provoking, and witty as I have found Josh’s to be, though I know I have huge shoes to fill. Now that [...]
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Tags: Education, Germany, Home School, Human Rights, School
I admit that it certainly is trendy to compare modern political leaders with their brutal predecessors (especially in the case of communist countries such as China and Russia), but I noticed something while reading the news today that eerily reminded me of something I learned a class I took on Mao Zedong. Namely, the Hundred [...]
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Tags: beijing, china, hundred flowers campaign, mao, Olympics, protest, protest zones, zedong
In a stunning revelation today, inside sources report that handsome singing pop sensation, Josh Groban, has been faking it the whole time. This story goes all the way back to 1998, when Grammy-winning producer David Foster discovered a young talented singer by the name of Norm Johnson.
Foster faced a dilemma, as Norm’s face was less [...]
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Tags: faked, groban, johnson, josh, lipsyncing, norm, opening ceremony, satire
What Stanford-Cal Rivalry?
It seems that the BBC has finally reunited those two ancient rivals in a single sentence by referring to the lead author of a recent medical paper as a professor “from the University of California at Stanford.”
See for yourself! (Sorry guys, the BBC has corrected their mistake)
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Tags: bbc, berkeley, cal, stanford
Rule 51
“As with previous games, our athletes will be perfectly free to express themselves, so long as it is done in a manner consistent with Rule 51.”
Spokesman Darryl Seibel, U.S. Olympic Committee
What exactly is Rule 51?
Tibet flag won’t fly at Beijing Olympics
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Tags: beijing, Olympics, protest, rule 51, tibet
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