Okay, I'm not a huge Unofficial fan, but

is this the best they can do?



And you know, I like that Nick Burbules guy. He gave a talk about blogging at the Y that I mentioned here. Nick, come on... What are dorks like me going to do? Why not take a page from Students for Environmental ConcernS book, and plan something sweet that gives students a viable option to be not-completely-heinous:



You're welcome, by the way, for this all-access pass to my email.

Who gives a rat's McAss?

Christopher Thompson wrote this article for TIME today about what's shaping up to be a "word war" this summer. McDonald's is pissed because Oxford English Dictionary currently defines the word McJob as "an unstimulating, low-paid job with few prospects, especially one created by the expansion of the service sector." They'd prefer that OED change the official definition to "reflect a job that is stimulating, rewarding ... and offers skills that last a lifetime." ...Word war? How about the real war/s?

I also came across this little tidbit on the BBC site. Pope Benedict, a critic of the world's "unbalanced use of energy," and of the environmental damage that makes "the lives of poor people on earth especially unbearable," is replacing the existing roof of an auditorium in Vatican City with a solar-paneled one. And here I thought the coolest thing about him was that he sort of looks like Monty Burns from The Simpsons!