I've started a new blog, Speaking Liberally . Hopefully I can do a better job of updating that blog than I did in the last year of this one.
http://thesquire.blogspot.com/2007/12/official-last-post-probably.html
In case it's not been obvious, updating the blog has slid off my radar screen. It's not that I don't have opinions - I do. It's just that I don't have the time to read the vast amounts of stuff I...
I've been looking for this image for a while, and now that the Chief is gone, it's rather appropriate to post it here.
http://thesquire.blogspot.com/2007/02/this-seems-pertinent.html
One of the things the Pro-Chief crowd likes to tout is the fact that the current regalia used by the Chief was given to/bought by the university from a member of the Ogala Sioux. They seem to thi...
http://thesquire.blogspot.com/2007/01/one-more-bit-of-supposed-ligitimacy.html
The You Don't Know Jack website has had a daily Dis or Dat for the past couple months, and today's, titled Run for Your Mushroom asks you whether a term is the name of a Smurf or a point of the...
http://thesquire.blogspot.com/2007/01/ill-take-dat-cookie.html
And my, did they get some choice new bits : > One member of the Facebook group said she didn't think the group was > racist. > > "I'm sure that when the group was started...
http://thesquire.blogspot.com/2007/01/trib-has-its-own-story.html
There I was, thinking I was mostly done with blogging, or at least this blog, and then someone goes and makes a threat against a Native American student for being anti-Chief, along with someone e...
http://thesquire.blogspot.com/2007/01/more-comments-on-recent-stupidity.html
Via the university MASSMAIL system comes the following letter from the Chancellor, sent out at 4:29 this afternoon. It appears that Chief Illiniwek does create a hostile and abusive environment o...
One seems to get the impression that Nothing Happened in a lot of places in 1897.
http://thesquire.blogspot.com/2007/01/on-door-on-south-side-of-bourbon.html
I don't have much to say nowadays (Why? I dunno) but I guess I'll keep blog up to occasionally share my wisdom. For example, the next UIUC student to start a blog that is intended to be read by ...
http://thesquire.blogspot.com/2007/01/still-around-kinda.html
New Democratic Election Strategy: Fuck the South . Less Abridged FDL: The Democrats in 2006 re-learned the lessons of Harry Truman - the Dems can win without the South, and are probably better o...
A headline on the CNN.com webpage right now, that leads to a video link that I'm not about to pay for, reads "Controversial nativity has Gary, Joseph, no baby". Let's think about this for a mom...
http://thesquire.blogspot.com/2006/12/another-classics-lesson.html
With 11 of 12 precincts reporting, it looks like our guy Matt has a seat on the county board.
http://thesquire.blogspot.com/2006/11/many-happy-returns.html
So, the Dems have taken control of the House - huzzah - and have a shot at a hair's breadth majority in the Senate. While we wait for that, I now get to see if my prognostication comes true and...
http://thesquire.blogspot.com/2006/11/await-with-baited-breath.html
Jim Macdonald over at Making Light : > VOTE. TODAY. > Today it’s important to go to the polls and vote. > > Vote straight-ticket Democrat. > > > A vote for a Republic...
http://thesquire.blogspot.com/2006/11/quoted-in-its-entirety.html
Kevin Drum points out why laws mandating an ID be presented to vote disenfranchises people , using Arizona Prop 200 as an example. > The new law has disenfranchised native Americans who�...
http://thesquire.blogspot.com/2006/11/because-myers-has-already-invoked.html
Since I'm a working stiff and taking Friday off to go to a wedding, I don't have the day off today to help get your butts to the polls. However, you still need to go there. Myself, I'm psyched be...
While I was on the Northwestern University campus this past weekend, I took a walk around their campus and saw this. As much as I don't like their campus (the older buildings are great, but the ...
The following dose of stupid appeared in today's News-Gazette: > In newspaper advertisements and media releases Thursday, the Judy > Myers campaign warned voters of possible vot...
http://thesquire.blogspot.com/2006/11/ill-take-bullshit-alex-for-200.html
Digby's prognosticating that when the GOP loses one or both houses of Congress, they'll claim vote fraud , even after the incidents of the 2000 election. I dare someone to tell me with a straigh...
Someone's knitted a hat and scarf for the Alma Mater. I got some pics with my camera phone - once I figure out how to get them on my computer I'll see if any of them were decent and possibly post...
http://thesquire.blogspot.com/2006/10/wish-id-thought-of-that.html
HowManyOfMe.com There are: 2 people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name? For the record, it said there were 2,280 people with my last name, and 245,974 with my first name.
A Tribune story today contains the word "milleniums" as a plural for millenium. Yeah, I know, it sickened me too. For those who don't know - as a second declension neuter noun, the proper plur...
http://thesquire.blogspot.com/2006/10/ewww-improper-pluralization-of-latin.html
Someone recently landed upon the blog by asking ask.com for the definition of monosaccharides . I would heavily urge this person to increase their knowlege of the classical languages as used in ...
http://thesquire.blogspot.com/2006/10/general-edification.html
Judging by the recent search hits for the blog, a bunch of premeds with inflated opinions of themselves have gotten their poor MCAT scores back. To answer one of the questions asked - no, once y...
http://thesquire.blogspot.com/2006/10/guess-youre-going-to-grad-school.html