Scottish Nous

Slipping Girls the Mickey

So the national organization has kicked out the frat boys of Phi Kappa Tau.  They have until Sunday to find a place to live, and some of them who are leaving for fall break, will be coming back homeless.  This is so depressing.  Send me an e-mail if you want to adopt a local fraternity boy.  Brendan Egan, for example, is one of the homeless:

I had a test on Monday and I couldn't even think about it because I'm just trying to find a place to live right now and it's not easy.

This after nine girls where taken to the hospital for suspected alcohol poisoning and it was discovered that two of them had been slipped GHB - one a near fatal dose.   Someone didn't get their unconsensual sex.  All I have to say is, "Not my friends, Brendan. Not my friends."

Be Part Of The Cause Of My Suffering

This is a self-referring link, which refers to its self-referringness, to my donation page.  I am still accepting donations for the 2005 Race for the Cure.  If you click that link, you can see that I'm 83% of the way towards my soft "goal".  It's a "soft" goal because, if it's met, I'll just up it.  In fact, I've already tripled it thanks to generous philosophers.  Now let me give you three good reasons to spare five bucks.

First, your $5 could make breasts everywhere happy!  That's a great reason in itself.  But in addition, you would be partly responsible for me having to wake up at 5 am Sunday morning.  This is not the only way in which I will suffer.  I will likely be experiencing much pain during, and after, the 5K run.  My joints don't take this sort of abuse anymore.  You know you want to be part of the cause of my suffering.  Lastly, if you don't like to be part of the cause of other people's pain,  let me appeal to your good character in an attempt to coerce (or persuade) you to donate.  That is, let me use your goodness as a weapon against you.  Since you're a good and virtuous person, you wouldn't mind parting with just one beer this weekend for a good cause now, would you?

Dread Pirate Roberts

As I argued here, Roberts' confirmation is unacceptable.  The decision came the day after the first black, female federal judge, Constance Baker Motley, died.  Only twenty-two Democrats opposed the decision to confirm - a clear indication that both the Democrats and Republicans in the Senate are morally depraved and intellectualy incompetent.  The Cliffs of Insanity have been scaled and we can only hope that we will not, in the next several decades, be plunged into the Pit of Despair by a Rodent of Unusual Size.  Right now, it's anybody's guess.

2005 Race For The Cure

Due to already heavily stretched charitable budgets, this is no doubt a bad time to be soliciting montary contributions, but if you feel so inclined, I'll be running in the 2005 Komen Denver Race For The Cure; any donations, however so small, would be very much appreciated.  And it's so easy: Click Me To Donate! What do you say?  $5? 

New Orleans Flood Map

You can see the near real time water depth at any point in New Orleans at the Flood Map.  Click the map to get the water depth.  [Via Majikthise]

What We Knew

The Times-Picayune's 2002 Special Report: Washing Away reads like prophesy.