Slog - Comments on The Morning News http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_morning_news_286 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... Copyright 2008 Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:05:48 -0800 Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:24:06 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Mr. Poe It's too early for Croyt. Not enough coffee yet.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_morning_news_286#c809828 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_morning_news_286#c809828 News Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:54:38 -0800 Comment by flamingbanjo As far as I'm concerned, this news item from Australia is today's hot story so far.

]]> flamingbanjo http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_morning_news_286#c809833 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_morning_news_286#c809833 News Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:03:25 -0800 Comment by Christin 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?)

]]> Christin http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_morning_news_286#c809834 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_morning_news_286#c809834 News Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:03:52 -0800 Comment by June Bee @3 I'll volunteer! Where is it?

]]> June Bee http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_morning_news_286#c809835 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_morning_news_286#c809835 News Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:07:59 -0800 Comment by Cato the Younger Younger 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!!

]]> Cato the Younger Younger http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_morning_news_286#c809837 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_morning_news_286#c809837 News Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:24:17 -0800 Comment by elenchos 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.

]]> elenchos http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_morning_news_286#c809842 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_morning_news_286#c809842 News Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:32:42 -0800 Comment by Gitai 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?

]]> Gitai http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_morning_news_286#c809849 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_morning_news_286#c809849 News Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:40:57 -0800 Comment by June Bee Gitai, aside from Bionic Woman, bits of the Ken Burns pbs docu on the Great War will be our TV Fall Season highlight.

]]> June Bee http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_morning_news_286#c809851 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_morning_news_286#c809851 News Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:45:02 -0800 Comment by christopher 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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]]> christopher http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_morning_news_286#c809866 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_morning_news_286#c809866 News Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:03:25 -0800 Comment by infrequent @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.

]]> infrequent http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_morning_news_286#c809870 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_morning_news_286#c809870 News Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:16:14 -0800 Comment by L-Train8 What the hell is the "Wooderson Effect?" Kids today and their crazy slang talking.

]]> L-Train8 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_morning_news_286#c809875 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_morning_news_286#c809875 News Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:25:09 -0800 Comment by QuimbyMcF 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.

]]> QuimbyMcF http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_morning_news_286#c809881 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_morning_news_286#c809881 News Mon, 24 Sep 2007 10:41:46 -0800 Comment by GoodGrief Were the Boy Scouts hiding in that park rest room in Waynesboro where that priest got arrested?

]]> GoodGrief http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_morning_news_286#c809893 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_morning_news_286#c809893 News Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:00:50 -0800 Comment by June Bee 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.

]]> June Bee http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_morning_news_286#c809895 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_morning_news_286#c809895 News Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:04:08 -0800 Comment by Katelyn Ahmadinejad: totally bitchin?

]]> Katelyn http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_morning_news_286#c809902 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_morning_news_286#c809902 News Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:18:41 -0800 Comment by laterite @11 :


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Wf-mRo7C2I

]]> laterite http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_morning_news_286#c809903 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_morning_news_286#c809903 News Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:20:32 -0800 Comment by cunei4m 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!!!)

]]> cunei4m http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_morning_news_286#c810120 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/09/the_morning_news_286#c810120 News Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:24:06 -0800