Brett Favre is a Jet - so let’s make some money!

Now that Brett Favre has been traded to the New York Jets, I am going to pre-order Madden NFL ‘09 and NEVER OPEN IT. Here’s why: typically, the best player of the previous year gets to be graced on the cover of the upcoming year’s Madden NFL game. Such notable players as Michael Vick, Vince Young and Shaun Alexander have all taken center-stage for the popular franchise. However, there is a curse attached to the game - any player who is placed on the cover ends up either getting hurt during the season or performs well below their usual standard.

Iran and U.S. use same tactics to drum up support for war

Instead of just showing the three rockets, which would have been scary enough, Iran’s state news agency desides to digitally insert a fourth one, as the New York Times “The Lede” reports today.

Bittersweet weekend: I graduate, Tim Russert dies

Throughout the past year, I had one long-term and one short-term goal to fulfill. My long-term goal was get my degree completed. My short-term goal was to watch Tim Russert on “Meet the Press.”

This weekend, I completed the long-term goal: I graduated from the University of Washington with a Bachelor’s of Arts degree. I majored in Communications-Journalism and Political Science, and minored in History.

Weezer makes video filled with youtube pop culture

Leave it up to the nerds of Weezer to  make a video filled with youtube pop culture references. I think when you get parodied, that means you made it? Way to go youtube! Now lets just hope you can win your suit for copyright infringement against Viacom…

Military videos detailing life in Iraq are blogs too

Videos provide a type of realism that blogs with words just can’t provide. This video “Stories from the Frontlines” is great for anyone who wants to learn the lingo that Marines and soldiers use while in Iraq. A must-see video!

Will President Barack Obama be King’s “dream?”

What would Martin Luther King say today with a headline like this: AP Tally: Obama effectively clinches nomination.

More than 40 years ago, King announced to the world that he had a dream:

In a sense we’ve come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the “unalienable Rights” of “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

Many in this nation are overjoyed that an African-American man has the best chance ever to be the next president of the United States. White people voted for Barack Obama, African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, possibly a representative from every nation on this earth voted for him.

Obama’s wife said this: “for the first time in my adult life I am proud of my country because it feels like hope is finally making a comeback” several months ago. I, like her, am also proud that my country is trying to shed 400 years of oppression through slavery, racism and segregation. Perhaps America will continue this momentous occassion and propel Obama to the White House and make Dr. King’s declaratory statement that we, America, will be “free at last.”

Military blogger Colby Buzzell is going back to Iraq

Colby Buzzell, a military blogger who published the book My War: Killing Time in Iraq, which started as a blog, has been recalled to the Army to go back to Iraq, according to his blog. Colby has been in the Individual Ready Reserves since leaving active duty several years ago. Here is what he said in his book about if he was ever called recalled:

If I ever get a phone call saying, “Hello, Mr. Buzzell, this is the United States Army calling to congratulate you on being called back to active duty!” I swear to God I’ll say, “Dude, I’m way too stoned right now to be talking to you, hold on. Here, talk to my live-in boyfriend Stevie, and tell him exactly what you just told me, but make it quick, because me and him are about to make love to each other, now that these Ectsasy pills that we swallowed are kicking in.”

You didn’t text-message break-up!

For Kathy: Here’s the video we discussed in class. For all those who have been text-message break-upped, I now feel your pain. But… new social medias help make break-ups easier with text messages, but if you can see your significant other in person, the power of interpersonal communication can still override the detachment of technology, and you can save your relationship.

Why need a band when you have a keyboard?

This is wicked cool!

Democrats protest democrats over how to seat delegates

UPDATE: Democrats reach a deal and seat the Michigan and Florida delegates with half a vote each. More interesting than the decision was the mini-fight that occurred after the decision was announced. From the New York Times story:

The deep wounds among Democratic partisans — and the unification challenges awaiting the party — were laid bare when the committee voted on Saturday evening. Supporters of Mrs. Clinton jeered the decision, loudly booing and hissing the members of the group as their faces were shown on a large screen in the room.

One woman, wearing a blue “Team Hillary” shirt, shoved a man in a suit and tie wearing a small Obama button on his lapel. Another woman in a white Clinton shirt hung her head in her hands.

 

Democrats today are protesting themselves as committees from Florida and Michigan debate on what should be done about how to award delegates to both Senators Clinton and Obama. While both candidates agree both states’ delegates should be seated, Clinton thinks that all the delegates should count, thus resulting in a large delegate gain for her. Obama, on the other hand, wants only half the delegates to be seated. The protests bring up questions about how unified the Democratic party really will be once Clinton or Obama has been named president.