[Former Notre Dame great Paul] Hornung told Detroit's AM-1270 The Sports Station (an ESPN radio affiliate) on Tuesday that Notre Dame must ease up on its academic restrictions because "We gotta get the black athlete," he said. "We must get the black athlete if we're going to compete."

The suit, filed by a Minneapolis law firm on behalf of three University of Wisconsin-Madison students, says taverns that agreed to eliminate weekend drink specials - a step strongly urged by Chancellor John Wiley - committed felony violations of both state and federal antitrust law, regardless of their intent.

A spokesman for the TV studio, Chris Alexander, said Hilton was walking around after falling off the horse, "but to err on the absolute side of caution, we made a decision to medevac her" to a hospital.

Riiiiiiight, Chris. If you've got that goose laying the golden egg for your shitass network, you definitely want to "err on the side of caution..."

"Whenever you're dealing with talent, you always want to be extra careful," he added.

This must be some use of the word "talent" of which I was previously unaware. I guess having a ton of money you didn't earn and being thrust into the limelight by a sex video makes you "talented."
- posted by Brian @ 4:32 AM |

The answer is that the right doesn't want gay marriage in any state under any circumstances for any period of time. They are the true anti-federalists. They don't even support something like the Hatch amendment that would make the issue procedural rather than substantive and leave the issue of gay marriage on the table for states to decide. Why? Because they know they're losing. They know that within a generation, majorities will emerge to support equal protection for gay couples. They have to prevent the next generation from ever having a say; and they have to prevent gay people from ever believing that they are truly equal, truly worthy of dignity and truly citizens of the United States.

"I've never been to a riot before, and I wanted to get in on the action," said Oba Opesanmi, a freshman wearing only gym shorts and socks who had just posed triumphantly in front of the line of stern-faced police officers. "We killed Duke."

(Thanks to WVSR)
- posted by Brian @ 10:26 AM |

Thanks to Jeff Kay.
- posted by Brian @ 5:50 AM |

(Washington-AP) -- D-C's police chief says 24-hundred warnings were issued to motorists the first week a speed camera was placed on Florida Avenue near Gallaudet University in Northeast Washington.

Does this indicate a different problem to anyone? Does this indicate to anyone else that perhaps the 25 MPH speed limit in this area might, just maybe, be too low? Just wondering.
- posted by Brian @ 8:08 AM |

(Thanks to Dave Barry, again)
- posted by Brian @ 5:23 AM |

(Thanks to Dave Barry)
- posted by Brian @ 5:19 AM |

Oh well, I still like him better than Justin Timberlake.
- posted by Brian @ 4:48 AM |

Your Empire State Building fact for the day: when the B-25 hit the side of the building the morning of July 28th 1945., it shot gas and flames into the offices. Some secretaries fled to a corner of the floor and opened a window; they figured they were dead. One woman – Judy Klemesrud - threw her jewelry out the window, believing that someone might find it and use it. No sense in having it get burned up. She threw away her engagement ring, convinced she’d never see her fiancé again. He was overseas in the service. Off went the ring, out the window. And I suppose she said her prayers.

She survived. Her fiancé made it back from the war. They married. She had a son.

UPDATE: I have no idea how the shit Milo did that retarded spacing thing, but I don't see slashdot picking him up any time soon. Anyway, I'll try and be updating with my daily jaunpiece all week over at matthearn.com; there's a very short update there now. --The Hearn (note correct use of <font> tag)

UPDATE 2: Turns out Milo did use the <font> tag correctly, but failed to tell anybody you have to highlight the spaces in order to see something cool. The putz.
- posted by Brian @ 8:49 AM |

We're training kids to think they have no civil liberties. Oh, I forgot. As long as they're prisoners, er, students, they don't.

The group's goal is to teach our teenagers the importance of good citizenship and exciting ways they can be involved in grassroots political activity to elect pro-family, pro-life candidates to public office.

I assume Daryl merely cut and pasted the second one from a news story or email he received, but still.
- posted by Bacon Dad @ 11:06 AM |

Yet a four-judge majority has ruled in favor of special benefits for a group of relatively affluent households, most of which have two earners and are not raising children. What same-sex marriage advocates have tried to present as a civil rights issue is really a bid for special preferences of the type our society gives to married couples for the very good reason that most of them are raising or have raised children.

On the other hand, I know a family consisting of two loving parents and two children. The parents are both male. By Mary Ann Glendon's logic, they should be permitted to be married, right?
- posted by Bacon Dad @ 10:39 AM |

And I'm told that the dead dude's name really is Fitsum Gebreegziabher -- it wasn't a matter of the person writing the story accidentally sitting on the keyboard.
- posted by Brian @ 8:15 AM |

We'll start with this, which is placed here not to tell about some guy who wandered out near the edge of the space needle, but for proper recognition of the division of the Seattle Fire Department that rescued him. They win the Cool Name Of The Week award.
- posted by Brian @ 4:35 AM |