Spring Break
Yeas & Nays
Editorial Board
Issue date: 4/3/09 Section: Forum
Yea to spring term! New classes! Woo hoo! Oh, wait, it looks like we've ran out of enthusiasm …
Nay to the un-spring-like weather, and the fact that comments about the weather always seem to end up in Yeas and Nays.
Yea to being creative while desperate. Who hasn't crumpled up a piece of notebook paper to blow our noses? Oh, just us?
Nay to using a page from the Bible to write down the recipe for making methamphetamine, just as two people in Indiana did, who were arrested Tuesday for meth possession and manufacturing charges. Don't worry, they were arrested, and have a nice bunk bed in hell reserved for them.
Yea to Benny the Beaver, who gives us no reason to shoot BBs at him.
Nay to the three University of Oregon basketball players who were caught shooting at ducks with BB guns in a Eugene park on Monday night. Reportedly, no birds were hit; their free-throw record seems to relate to their shooting abilities.
Yea to Billy Mays, the OxyClean and KaBoom guy, for not for not beating up hookers, unlike ShamWow guy Vince Schlomi, who was arrested for repeatedly punching a prostitute in Florida. We wonder if a ShamWow can clean up blood.
Nay to people not suffering in today's economy and spending their money on ridiculous, frivolous expenses.
Yea to the six Europeans who traveled to Russia to embark on a 105-day virtual reality "trip" to Mars. The virtual excursion is to test how humans will handle the isolation involved in such space travel. We kid you not. At least they won't be spending money on stupid things while locked in an Earth-stationed spaceship.
Yea to men crying. It's okay to be vulnerable, man.
Nay having crying, or having emotional breakdowns for that matter, at inappropriate times, like the 19-year-old man who sat down on the floor of the New Jersey liquor store he was trying to rob after the owner triggered the automatic locks from behind the counter. The cry-baby most likely drowned his sorrows in the bottle of Hennessey he grabbed before the locks were activated.
Yea to finding weird stuff in your parent's home as a kid.
Nay to the parents in central New York who left weed lying around their house, which obviously was found by their seven-year-old and eight-year-old children, who promptly headed off to school.
Yea to the golden years of old age and senility.
Nay to the man, who claimed to be 114 years old, recently arrested in Nigeria for possessing 6.5 tons of marijuana in his home. The man reported that he thought the 254 sacks of weed were just rice.
Yea to the now possible sequel to "Pineapple Express": "Nigerian Rice."
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.
Nay to the un-spring-like weather, and the fact that comments about the weather always seem to end up in Yeas and Nays.
Yea to being creative while desperate. Who hasn't crumpled up a piece of notebook paper to blow our noses? Oh, just us?
Nay to using a page from the Bible to write down the recipe for making methamphetamine, just as two people in Indiana did, who were arrested Tuesday for meth possession and manufacturing charges. Don't worry, they were arrested, and have a nice bunk bed in hell reserved for them.
Yea to Benny the Beaver, who gives us no reason to shoot BBs at him.
Nay to the three University of Oregon basketball players who were caught shooting at ducks with BB guns in a Eugene park on Monday night. Reportedly, no birds were hit; their free-throw record seems to relate to their shooting abilities.
Yea to Billy Mays, the OxyClean and KaBoom guy, for not for not beating up hookers, unlike ShamWow guy Vince Schlomi, who was arrested for repeatedly punching a prostitute in Florida. We wonder if a ShamWow can clean up blood.
Nay to people not suffering in today's economy and spending their money on ridiculous, frivolous expenses.
Yea to the six Europeans who traveled to Russia to embark on a 105-day virtual reality "trip" to Mars. The virtual excursion is to test how humans will handle the isolation involved in such space travel. We kid you not. At least they won't be spending money on stupid things while locked in an Earth-stationed spaceship.
Yea to men crying. It's okay to be vulnerable, man.
Nay having crying, or having emotional breakdowns for that matter, at inappropriate times, like the 19-year-old man who sat down on the floor of the New Jersey liquor store he was trying to rob after the owner triggered the automatic locks from behind the counter. The cry-baby most likely drowned his sorrows in the bottle of Hennessey he grabbed before the locks were activated.
Yea to finding weird stuff in your parent's home as a kid.
Nay to the parents in central New York who left weed lying around their house, which obviously was found by their seven-year-old and eight-year-old children, who promptly headed off to school.
Yea to the golden years of old age and senility.
Nay to the man, who claimed to be 114 years old, recently arrested in Nigeria for possessing 6.5 tons of marijuana in his home. The man reported that he thought the 254 sacks of weed were just rice.
Yea to the now possible sequel to "Pineapple Express": "Nigerian Rice."
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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