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Monday, September 24, 2007

The Morning News

posted by on September 24 at 8:05 AM

Ahmadinejad in America: Iran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has arrived in New York. Today he will speak at Columbia University, tomorrow he’ll address the United Nations General Assembly. Protesters will follow him wherever he goes.

Juiced: Over four dozen illegal labs raided, 124 arrested in sweeping steroid investigation.

Picket Lines: The United Auto Workers sets to walk out on GM any minute now. Update: Make that NOW.

Marches: As 100,000 joined protesting Monks in Myanmar, the country formerly known as Burma is in danger of exploding.

Lost in the Ass of Nowhere Badge: Eight boy Boy Scouts missing in the North Carolina mountains are alive and well.

No Slapping MoveOn: Senator Patty Murray was one of the 25 senators who didn’t vote to condemn the lefty organization’s “Betray Us” ad in the New York Times.

Open For Business: After two years, the downtown tunnel has buses moving again.

Kids These Days: University faculty struggling to keep up with the Wooderson Effect.

Seahawks: A late touchdown and a recovered kickoff fumble nab the Hawks a win against the Bengals.

$200 Million the Quick Way: A little game called Halo 3 comes out this week, is expected to shatter records, destroy relationships, and generally bring productivity to a halt. (Note: Video below is NSFW.)

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It's too early for Croyt. Not enough coffee yet.

Posted by Mr. Poe | September 24, 2007 8:54 AM
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As far as I'm concerned, this news item from Australia is today's hot story so far.

Posted by flamingbanjo | September 24, 2007 9:03 AM
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Slog doesn't have anybody--contributor or reader/commenter--attending the Ahmadinejad event who can liveblog it, do they?

(Are we taking side-bets on tasers during the Q&A?)

Posted by Christin | September 24, 2007 9:03 AM
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@3 I'll volunteer! Where is it?

Posted by June Bee | September 24, 2007 9:07 AM
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Not a fan of the Iranian Pres being here but to call him speaking at Columbia University a betrayal of civilization like Fox News is saying is just over the top. (I am all for fundies of any stripe trying to make an argument that their make believe god is stronger then someone elses make belive god; ALWAYS entertaining!)

And the Bus Tunnel reopens: Odd how since it reopened it is just like it was never closed, I just fell right back into my old commute on Metro this morning and hoped out at Convention Place. The COOL part is I will not have to wait for the 71 by Macy's afterwork with all the druggies on the street. I will get to wait for them in the tunnel!!

Posted by Cato the Younger Younger | September 24, 2007 9:24 AM
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Medieval history associate professor Theresa Earenfight, 53, and two Seattle University colleagues recently went to the movies to see the teen sex comedy "Superbad" so they would know what their students were watching. It's important to learn the lingo, not so faculty can use it themselves, but so they can understand what students are saying.

Otherwise, Earenfight said, "You have no idea when they say, 'Totally bitchin' class,' if it's a good class or bad class."


"Bitchin" is slang that was introduced to a wide audience in the 1982 movie "Fast Times at Ridgemont High." That would be seven years before the freshmen were born.


You're only as old as your pathetic attempts to play catch up with the cultural references of the young. Which is to say, pretty fucking old.

Posted by elenchos | September 24, 2007 9:32 AM
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Swallows return to Capistrano. Parades air the day after Thanksgiving. The P-I writes its annual story about how young the kids are and how they don't know shit. Can someone look through the archives and find the article about how incoming freshmen at the UW know nothing of the Great War, and only vaguely remember that President Wilson led us into it, while quoting UW professors talk about their curiosity as to whether a "jazzy" class is a good thing?

Posted by Gitai | September 24, 2007 9:40 AM
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Gitai, aside from Bionic Woman, bits of the Ken Burns pbs docu on the Great War will be our TV Fall Season highlight.

Posted by June Bee | September 24, 2007 9:45 AM
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Comments on only 2 items- Thanks, Patty Murray, for supporting unpopular free speech! Ditto for the people hosting Amedinasantorum's college visit. I hope everyone in the audience flips his holocaust denying shitstain face the bird.
And while I agree with him being able to speak places in the US, I also agree with him being kept away from ground zero. He can act incredulous and smile at us like Alfred E Neuman, but anyone who believes in the shit he does should be kept the hell outta there.
What's a good analogy? He's a public figure sympathetic to the politics of the killers, visiting the scene of the massacre. It would be like Shinzo Abe visiting Nanking to make a stump speech about how the Chinese were asking for it! Yeah, that works.
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Posted by christopher | September 24, 2007 10:03 AM
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@6. ah yes, maybe so. but, we are talking about a Medieval history associate professor Theresa Earenfight.... in which case 1982 would be surprisingly modern.

Posted by infrequent | September 24, 2007 10:16 AM
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What the hell is the "Wooderson Effect?" Kids today and their crazy slang talking.

Posted by L-Train8 | September 24, 2007 10:25 AM
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Couple of clarifications. @6, 'bitchin' was actively used at lease as far back as the mid-60s. See reference here: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0003-1283(196510)40%3A3%3C193%3ANOCV1%3E2.0.CO%3B2-M

@8, the Great War refers to WWI, not WWII which is the subject of Ken Burns' latest PBS saga. Pretty good first episode, BTW.

Posted by QuimbyMcF | September 24, 2007 10:41 AM
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Were the Boy Scouts hiding in that park rest room in Waynesboro where that priest got arrested?

Posted by GoodGrief | September 24, 2007 11:00 AM
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Quimby..,

doh! i should have known by the Wilson mention. anyway, ww1 might be the great war, but i think Tom Brokaw lectured that WW2 was of the Greatest Generation. and thanks, didn't know that the Burns thing started already. EFFF! there's so much to do tonight! (cough* tcraft.comnation) and all i wanted to do was go folk dancing at seattle center.

Posted by June Bee | September 24, 2007 11:04 AM
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Ahmadinejad: totally bitchin?

Posted by Katelyn | September 24, 2007 11:18 AM
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Posted by laterite | September 24, 2007 11:20 AM
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I do really love this video...I should have known better when he flipped off the screen (like they could see him) but I watched until the end...even better that he slammed the door and then got so angry he left. I swear, I would never play with this guy; it's got to be ridiculously annoying to hear someone screaming constantly during play. (OH, DAMN!! I just used a semi-colon!!!)

Posted by cunei4m | September 24, 2007 3:24 PM

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