Still in the grip of a tantrum, the Sooners have decided to take their ball and go home:Oklahoma would consider canceling its game at Washington in 2008 if the Pacific 10 Conference doesn't change its rule requiring league officials to be used at its home...
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A White Bear introduces us to the writing-related program activities of the early 20th Century novelist and poet Amanda McKittrick Ros, who indeed is plausibly described as the best worst.
Shorter Verbatim Harvey C. Mansfield: "To resist rape a woman needs more than martial arts and more than the police; she needs a certain ladylike modesty enabling her to take.
Bangkok:The Thai military launched a coup against Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra on Tuesday night, circling his offices with tanks, seizing control of TV stations and declaring a provisional authority pledging loyalty to the king.Rumors of a coup swept Bangkok today as the Thai military blocked...
Ron Moore hints at it on the 40th anniversary of Star Trek:Kirk, for me, embodied an American idea: His mission was to explore the final frontier, not to conquer it..
I guess if you're from Oklahoma there really isn't that much else to live for...The instant replay official whose failure to overturn a bad call led to a narrow Oregon.
Austin Bay escaped reality a while ago. Now he's found himself in some bizarre parody of reality, and he's trying to escape that, too: Iraq, albeit slowly and painfully, is getting stronger politically and militarily. Soon it will have more than one mech division. Eventually...
Remember that today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day. Act accordingly, ye scurvy dogs.
From Air Force Link:The Air Force chief of staff announced "Reaper" has been chosen as the name for the MQ-9 unmanned aerial vehicle.The Air Force is the Department of Defense's.
In an aside to an otherwise excellent post on the FCC, Amanda writes:Local ownership means, on average, that the audience is getting troubling high amounts of actual news, which is good for democracy and bad for BushCo. Is this really true? I have my doubts....
University of Oklahoma President David Boren.Suck it up, Sooners. Better luck at the track.
The Happy Feminist (who certainly wouldn't be happy if she knew that women were walking around...with breasts! If feminism stands for anything, it's that wearing an Ann Taylor top is.