Weigel, I thank thee for linking to me. Code Red-type virus, I curse thee for making me unable to respond in detail to the article Dave’s venting about. However, my opinion on antiwar-protesters boils down to this: Dissent = good; Uninformed dissent = stupid and counterproductive. Perhaps it’s my 18 years in DC, but my ...

Dave Barry seems to have hopped on the bandwagon. It’s linked off his official website, so I can only presume that this is actually him. Fun note: He’s using the same template I started out with before I transformed it into what you see before you. He too, hates the dogs on the side. Anyone ...

Yay for dumb cops: Police Discover Supposed $660,000 Weed Bust Is Actually Hay. Some days I think D.C. and Chicago cops should have a contest to see who’s dumber. Clearly, it would go into multiple rounds…

When I left my apartment this morning, the temperature (not the wind chill, the temperature) was -4 degrees. One of the main reasons I moved here to Chicago is because I hate heat, and I swore that in exchange for non-brutal summers, I would never complain about the cold. I lied. I thought my eyeballs ...

Sarah posted this, a link to a “Past Life Diagnosis” thingy, and people have been having themselves diagnosed left and right. My Diagnosis: Your past life diagnosis: ——————————————————————————– I don’t know how you feel about it, but you were female in your last earthly incarnation. You were born somewhere in the territory of modern Korea ...

Adam, my roommate, has been appointed Editor in Chief of the Daily Northwestern! And there was much rejoicing, but a little sadness, since he will pretty much disappear from our apartment until June. I might see him when I come back from bartending, but otherwise, he’s gonna live at the Daily. Yay for journalistic masochism. ...

I just did 2 shots! God, I love my homework now. I was filling out index cards for all these random shots, and I saw 2 that I could easily make with stuff I had sitting around (the Brain and the Bloody Brain, which involve Peach Schnapps, Bailey’s, and Grenadine), so I figured, well, I ...

One of the better columns the Daily Northwestern has ever published: Friends, Your Sex Is Making Me Too Jealous.

I gotta heartily recommend you go see Chicago. If you know you hate musicals, then skip it. Otherwise, definitely check it out, it’s really, really well done, with a nice balance between the fantasy musical sequences and the movie-like sequences that move the plot along. Yay good movies! Although I’d like to see them a ...

Continuing with the roadtrip…I swear, I’m gonna finish this this week… From Shamrock, Texas, where last we left off, I headed off to my uncle James (my dad’s brother, who I still call uncle Jimmy)’s house in Springfield, Missouri. In order to get there, you have to cross Oklahoma. All of it. Oklahoma is a ...