One of the Academy Award nominees for Best Documentary is at the Ross in Lincoln right now.  It's called 'Iraq in Fragments', and is really a pretty remarkable achievement, though it takes a while to realize that.  The film is done in three acts, focusing seperately on Sunni's in Baghdad, Shiites in the South, and Kurds in the North.

Each section ( Read more... )

There's a show on BBC called Top Gear, and they took a road trip to America on last week's episode.  The whole thing is hilarious, but the interesting section is when they bought 3 junk cars and drove them from Miami to New Orleans.  To make things more interesting, they painted slogans on the cars that weren't exactly popular in the south (Hillary ( Read more... )

Even though the problems of Africa are basically swept under the international rug, the continent still gets a good bit of attention, thanks mostly to George Clooney, Matt Damon, Bono and the celebrity adoption craze. Let's face it though, most of us think all celebrities are spoiled twits, and clearly the country's main interest in them is their ( Read more... )

You might not all be football fans, but who doesn't like a spectacular finish?

The Lakeland, Florida Dreadnaughts (what a great name) are the #1 ranked team in the country.  They're also the 2 time defending state champs, having beaten St. Thomas Aquinas both times.  They faced Aquinas again this year and built a 35-0 lead midway through the 4th ( Read more... )

I'm down to one Economics final and my semester will be over, and since it's not til Thursday, I can breathe a little...just a little though, because I have a stack of work that's about to fall over and bury me at my "real" job.  I'm determined to actually start writing something worthwhile, and so earlier this afternoon I spent way too much time ( Read more... )

Today is World AIDS Day, and it has provided me the motivation to get off my duff and start writing about things that matter. I started this blog in the hope that it would provide me some motivation to write, but since my daily life clearly provides no material, and my personal life, is well, personal, I've been left a little lacking in topics.

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Random Observations...
I gotta study...but I just don't care right now...so I'll kill a little of my time and yours.

--You can tell a lot about somebody from their MySpace profile, and I don't mean the stuff they write...yes I am a judgemental piece of crap...but you can...

--I still smile everytime I think about Borat...I never go see movies twice, ( Read more... )

What had been something of a dream season ended with a resounding thud tonight. Losing is always hard to take, but getting blown out and having the kids feel so bad for feeling like they'd let everyone down was the worst. We'd been spectacular over-achievers all year, and going 11-1 and winning a game in triple overtime just to get to the Semi- ( Read more... )

Unbelievable ( Read more... )

I tend to measure my life by my failures...I tried to avoid them for a long while, but once it became clear that that was impossible, I just set out to fail in grander and grander fashions (though ironically, I'm sort of failing at that too). The failing part still sucks, but I figure it requires a certain amount of success just to put yourself in ( Read more... )