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A Post!
My posting output has dropped off considerably, as has my sleep since the baseball postseason began. I wrote off the Sox like everyone else when they fell behind 3 games to none, but somehow they pulled it out and exposed the Yankees as the overpaid, steroid-ridden, cheating frauds that they are. Go punch a wall over that, Kevin Brown.
But I'm drawn back online after reading in Student Life that frat parties are now officially dry until the end of the semester. So the Sox stomp all over the Yankees, and the frats are deprived of their precious alcohol, all in a span of 24 hours. It's like my birthday and Christmas all rolled into one!
Of course the decision to enact Prohibition on campus has sparked the usual stream of emails bemoaning the "fact" that now students will be forced to drink illegally in an "unsafe environment" like their dorm room. Apparently hundreds of people crammed into a smelly, dark room filled with loud music and guys looking to get a piece is a "safe environment". Tell that to the people who got in a fight last week.
I still find it hilarious that supposedly-intelligent students don't comprehend why the school must follow state and federal laws. If someone dies of alcohol poisoning while at a school-sponsored event, the school is on the hook. Hence cutting down on kegs at WILD.
The school is not the Vatican, a sovereign nation amidst another, free to enact whatever laws it chooses. Students can't practice concealed carry if they're underage, and they can't drink if they're underage, whether they're at school, at home, or wandering East St. Louis. And if the school has to cover lawsuits by parents because their kids are allowed to drink to excess under the administration's watch, well you thought tuition was high now...
So face it fratties, you'll have to find something else to do on weekends besides wallow in your own crapulence. If you're lefthanded, learn to pitch. Maybe Steinbrenner will throw piles of money at you.
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That reminds me, Chris, I may have found a political party for you! Well, ok, maybe it's not perfect (they're wacko conservatives who support bible reading in public schools and oppose gambling and "the Homosexual Agenda"). Ok, so it's really screwed up. But I do believe it might be the only political party in America that opposes the sale of alcohol and other drugs. Here's the link: http://www.prohibition.org/. The Daily Show profiled them a couple days ago and I thought you would find them amusing.
Posted by: Eileen at October 21, 2004 10:00 PM
While I wholeheartedly support the right to fraternal crapulence, I have to admit I agree with you on this one, Chris. The reason for the brawl was that there were 400 people at a party registered for a maximum of 150 at a time, and people were drinking outside. My source (read: some drunken crapulator) tells me that the reason it started was that B&D guys made the reasonable request to people to go back inside the house - not to pour out their drinks, not to surrender them...just to go back in the building.
The frats brought this on themselves by flaunting the drinking laws and fire codes of the state. If people want to drink outside, just set up an orange safety fence like you're supposed to. It's not that hard.
Posted by: Brian at October 22, 2004 2:53 PM
Ah, at the end of game three I told my girlfriend, a die-hard Red Sox fan, that Boston would win the following three games at Fenway with home fan support, then carry that run back to Yankee Stadium for a first-of-its-kind victory. At the time she nodded politely. Now she wants to marry me. Go Red Sox!
(the sad thing is that even though my prediction was mostly on track, one can never discount the power of Pedro Martinez to destroy the hopes and dreams of Red Sox fans everywhere)
Posted by: Chris2 at October 25, 2004 7:40 PM
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