News
On a random note, yesterday night there was a possum hanging out on the steps up to the LAC computer lab. It was pretty cool to see.
I know this is old hat in the blogosphere, but it turns out that the cartoons that the Muslims around the world are so incensed about were actually republished months ago in a major Egyptian newspaper, without anyone complaining. Why are they all protesting the republication of these in secular newspapers now? As far as I can tell, it’s due to propaganda put out by the various governments in the region, but I don’t see the goal of it all. What are these people trying to protest? I’m having difficulty finding a valid reason for anyone, particularly a religious group, to hate Denmark (unless you’re really anti-drugs, but that’s totally off-topic).
On another news topic, Sadam Hussein’s trial has broken down once more, with the defendants’ lawyers boycotting the trial, and the defendants refusing their substitute lawyers, forcing guards to drag them to the courthouse, and shouting through the whole thing. I can pretty much understand this – if you get caught for genocide/etc, you can’t really do anything except stall and make everyone else miserable while they try to bring you to justice.
Oh, and Cheney shot his friend while they were hunting, which I think is pretty funny.
We seriously have a possum on campus? That’s totally amazing!
I know! Though at first I was afraid it would feel threatened and try to attack me. But it just kind of sat there watching as I walked by. It was bigger than I expected – bigger than a guinea pig and smaller than a small dog. I had no idea there were possums around here.
There’s quite a few possums in the trees by Dorsey, along with a family of raccoons. They can be rather scary at night.