Yeas & Nays
The Daily Barometer Editorial Board
Issue date: 1/30/09 Section: Forum
Yeas & Nays
Yea to payday and having our monthly alcohol budget replenished.
Nay to underage drinking. MIPs are expensive.
Yea to coffee. It's the perfect non-alcoholic accompaniment to an early morning power walk through the fog to an 8 a.m. class.
Nay to the icky weather. No one likes to follow their early-morning power walk through the fog across campus with an awkward, sweaty feeling in a too-hot classroom at 8 a.m.
Yea to Italian food, because it tastes good in any weather and any state of perspiration … but maybe not at 8 a.m.
Nay to the owner of Goomba's Pizzeria in Florida, who punched and pistol-whipped a customer who asked for a refund for a calzone that wasn't to his liking. Apparently the mob is doing well down in Florida.
Yea to free speech. We're going to complain about our crappy calzones if we want to! Yeah!
Nay to food service jobs. Just because the rest of us restrain ourselves from punching obnoxious customers who complain about their crappy calzones (why would anyone go to a place called Goomba's in the first place?) doesn't mean the thought doesn't cross our minds.
Yea to Google Earth. Besides providing users with pretty colors to look at when taking a break from Facebook (even though Facebook is a break from, you know, homework), the satellite image software helped Swiss police seize 1.2 tons of marijuana from a two-acre plantation found on Thursday. Sixteen were arrested, however, the whereabouts of the weed is unknown. Lucky Swiss police.
Nay to the man who used a cell phone to attempt a drug deal in the restroom of the Everett, Wash. police station while waiting to see his parole officer. Maybe the man thought he wouldn't show up on Google Earth?
Yea to drunken weekends with friends.
Nay to drunken weekends with friends that end with one's penis being bitten off by a raccoon, which happened to a man in Russia when he tried to assault the animal. The weekend started well enough, according to the dismembered party: "When I saw the animal, I thought I'd have some fun."
Yea to natural selection.
Editorials serve as a platform for Barometer editors to offer commentary and opinions on issues both global and local, grand in scale and diminutive. The views expressed here are a reflection of the editorial board majority. Disagree? E-mail a letter to the editor or guest column to editor@dailybarometer.com.
Yea to payday and having our monthly alcohol budget replenished.
Nay to underage drinking. MIPs are expensive.
Yea to coffee. It's the perfect non-alcoholic accompaniment to an early morning power walk through the fog to an 8 a.m. class.
Nay to the icky weather. No one likes to follow their early-morning power walk through the fog across campus with an awkward, sweaty feeling in a too-hot classroom at 8 a.m.
Yea to Italian food, because it tastes good in any weather and any state of perspiration … but maybe not at 8 a.m.
Nay to the owner of Goomba's Pizzeria in Florida, who punched and pistol-whipped a customer who asked for a refund for a calzone that wasn't to his liking. Apparently the mob is doing well down in Florida.
Yea to free speech. We're going to complain about our crappy calzones if we want to! Yeah!
Nay to food service jobs. Just because the rest of us restrain ourselves from punching obnoxious customers who complain about their crappy calzones (why would anyone go to a place called Goomba's in the first place?) doesn't mean the thought doesn't cross our minds.
Yea to Google Earth. Besides providing users with pretty colors to look at when taking a break from Facebook (even though Facebook is a break from, you know, homework), the satellite image software helped Swiss police seize 1.2 tons of marijuana from a two-acre plantation found on Thursday. Sixteen were arrested, however, the whereabouts of the weed is unknown. Lucky Swiss police.
Nay to the man who used a cell phone to attempt a drug deal in the restroom of the Everett, Wash. police station while waiting to see his parole officer. Maybe the man thought he wouldn't show up on Google Earth?
Yea to drunken weekends with friends.
Nay to drunken weekends with friends that end with one's penis being bitten off by a raccoon, which happened to a man in Russia when he tried to assault the animal. The weekend started well enough, according to the dismembered party: "When I saw the animal, I thought I'd have some fun."
Yea to natural selection.
Editorials serve as a platform for Barometer editors to offer commentary and opinions on issues both global and local, grand in scale and diminutive. The views expressed here are a reflection of the editorial board majority. Disagree? E-mail a letter to the editor or guest column to editor@dailybarometer.com.
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