Sunday, May 11, 2008

Week in Review

Posted by Josh in American Gladiators, Democrats, Election 2008, gta4, Kentucky Derby, Ryan Reynolds, week in review

This week went by FAR to slowly, perhaps because I spent the whole time counting down to this Monday, when a new season of American Gladiators comes back. It will have new events, new gladiators and the same rampant fanboyism from Jeff and me. Expect a more complete preview tomorrow.

But how else did we spend our time this week?

• A little more than a week ago we were enjoying the Kentucky Derby – and then spent most of Monday feeling bad for enjoying it.
• Indiana and North Carolina voted, and Senator Obama has pretty much wrapped up this election – partly due to massive youth turnout.
• I began plotting my vengeance against Ryan Reynolds.
• Sure, we are all broke, but at least we talk about it!
• If you can’t afford a PS3, at least you can get in on hating on the GTA IV critics.

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Monday, May 5, 2008

Your Morning News 5.5.08

Posted by Josh in Australia, Barack Obama, Big Brother, Cyclone, gas tax, hillary clinton, Immigration, Iron Man, Kentucky Derby, Myanmar, NARCs

Reports are starting to come in from Myanmar, where 3000 were killed and 4000 are still missing after a cyclone this past weekend. Cyclone = hurricane, sorta.

The New York Times has a longish piece on the fates of immigrants who have died in while US custody. 66 people have died while in immigration custody from January 2004 to November 2007 – nearly a million people in total have passed through the system. The list was only compiled after congress demanded it and only published when the Times made a Freedom of Information Act request. The absurdity in this one is not so much that people die in US custody (the numbers are low even though some of the stories are chilling), it is the degree to which families have no way to get information. They often don’t fiend out for weeks that a loved one has died and even then they don’t find out the full picture of what happened. Flag this one to read during your coffee break.

The Democratic Primaries, The Kentucky Derby, Iron Man, and Australians after the jump

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