I wish I had done a thesis on this topic and won the coveted chancellor’s prize for excellence from Melbourne University.

“I was interested in where myths turn up in less obvious forms, and there wasn’t much work on the early years of television and its relation to myth,” Dr Baker said.

I’m not sure if you guys have read this yet, but I saw it on the Washington Post today. As if it weren’t hard enough to quit smoking, tobacco companies are trying to keep new (mostly) young and black smokers smoking.

How? By increasing the amount of nicotine in cigarettes by 10-30% since 1998. There should be laws against this sort of thing. Racism, exploitation, and addiction are grounds for some serious law suits.

The nicotine in Marlboro products, preferred by two-thirds of high school smokers, increased 12 percent. Kool lights increased 30 percent. Two-thirds of African American smokers use menthol brands.

Can you imagine if other drug companies started increasing dosages by 25%? Beer, cholesterol medicine, or Viagra! I think lots of randy old men would be suing with their 45+ hour erections, don’t you?

Turkey beat Lithuania today in the FIBA World Basketball Championships in Japan (there was a 4.8 earthquake during the game). They are playing for 5th-6th place – hey not bad ok for a team that wasn’t suppose to qualify and barely got in the damn tournament in the first place.
The final result was 95-84 in overtime. Now they face either France (who sucks this year) or Germany (damn good). Hopefully it’s France, let’s see them try to headbutt a Turkish player 🙂

USA plays Greece tomorrow…go USA!

For you teachers and students, I think I may have already posted this on the forum, but it might be worth your while to check out books.google.com. It is a collection of books that you can search, and many even get the full download.

If you’ve got any of those high school or college books you don’t really need to buy, but gotta skim, this might be the tool for you.

Save your parents a few bucks if you can and search for that perfect quote to cap off your 15 pages of BS for English 101.

L’avant Poste, always looking for ways to hack school and fight the educating efforts of teachers everywhere.

Yes, the hair is coming off. I was going to do it yesterday evening, however I have a major dilema. I have no idea how to get the back where my skull meets the rest of my head. It kinda grows in an unusual pattern, and I think it might be a bit tricky. I will do it on Friday, no fail.

It must happen – I will abort and go bald in the event of a disaster. Expect before, during, and after pictures this weekend.

See how I whore myself in the interest of L’avant Poste? 🙂