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Archive for March, 2003

March 14th, 2003 by Sho

When you download pirated music, you ride with Osama bin Laden.

In some weird, reality-bending path of logic, the Department of Justice has suggested that there are links between terrorism and peer-to-peer file sharing (e.g. Kazaa). I can’t wait for government-paid ads on TV where some murdered family comes back from the dead to accost someone who downloaded the latest Avril Lavigne album.

March 14th, 2003 by Sho

More OC in the ODE

The Daily Emerald published a great letter today by OC Publisher, Bret Jacobson. He explains our position, defends our actions in a succinct manner and blasts those who have attempted to censor us.

No doubt we disagree with many people, but we have never stooped so low as to try to silence them.

March 14th, 2003 by pete

Higher Education

A community college president was busted for possession of marijuana. More specifically, possession of 72 plants worth $20,000. Whoa.

March 14th, 2003 by Timothy

Ripped from the Headlines

Bill Clinton: Second Worst President Ever. Is he just too naieve to realize that the US being the biggest power on the block is probably a good thing in the long run? Does he not realize that the real problem with interest rates will be the massive amount of government spending, not the tax cuts? That’s my only issue with the budget, it’s bloody huge…but it might help in the short-run. Oh, and he forgot about the Somali Bantu which is sad, great that this folks might finally get a chance in America. Better than being enslaved and starved, that’s for sure.

And, while I’m on the subject of sub-Saharan Africa, anybody remember Rwanda, didn’t think so.

This is a great guide to the Oscars.

March 14th, 2003 by Skeletor Ogboggle

Rambo On Meth

It’s a big day for Oregon at the movies this Friday. Both The Hunted and Spun have their premiers today and both were filmed in the green state. Apparently, Spun was actually filmed in Eugene. Does anyone recall seeing Billy Corgan or Brittany Murphy walking down 13th Street, circa 2001?!

And as far as The Hunted goes… Does a ex-special ops soldier coming to grips with his violent past while lurking in the Pacific Northwest woodlands sound familiar to anyone?! Well, how about the crusty, former mentor tracking him down?! C’mon…

March 13th, 2003 by pete

Brothers in Evil

The Buffalo Beast presents their choices for the 50 Most Loathsome Americans. Granted, it’s mostly Republicans, but it’s funny as hell. And they put some good digs in at Michael Moore, Joe Lieberman and Sheryl Crow. The Ann Coulter text is funny as hell. Eva Braun meets Sex and the City meets Alpha Rho Lambda.

March 13th, 2003 by Chris

Sophmoric, maybe, but mysoginistic? Nay!

Well folks, the Emerald has slapped us. I can’t say it wasn’t a funny read, because it was. But I must say I was disappointed by their insults. I figured they would be above that, but alas, they were not.

March 13th, 2003 by Sho

Eat an Animal for PETA Day

PETA has hit a new militant vegan low as they compare meat-eaters to Nazis. I especially like the visual analogy of Holocaust victims and animals on the website. And I thought vegans were supposed to be sensitive. Dear lord.

Seeing this makes me want to participate in Eat an Animal for PETA Day.

March 13th, 2003 by Brett

Fucking Racists?

No, says Clifford D. May. Fucking race baiters, then? Probably. As he says

“The allegation that any of this springs from anti-Semitism is probably unfair — although the result will be, without doubt, to fuel anti-Semitism’s fires. Those flames today burn most hotly on the Left. One recent example: the banning of Michael Lerner as a speaker at an antiwar rally because, though dovish regarding Yassir Arafat and vitriolic toward Israel’s Ariel Sharon, Lerner doesn’t endorse the delegitimization and eventual annihilation of Israel, doesn’t agree with such leftists as Kirkpatrick Sale who recently wrote that Israel “should be abandoned” because “there will continue to be violence as long as Israel exists.” (You see the logic: No Israeli existence, no problem. We might call this the Left’s “final solution” to the Jewish problem.)”

This is good reading for anyone who doesn’t see the increasingly obvious connection between the anti-war left and anti-semites. In the name of fair play, however, Pat Buchanan has a tedious and equally anti-semitic piece here Props if you can make it all the way through this shit, I couldn’t.

March 12th, 2003 by Timothy

Jeeze

I cannot believe that Elizabeth Smart is alive. Weird, but was she brainwashed?

On A Scarier Note: Japan deploys ships to Sea of Japan because North Korea may be testing a missile.

And SCOTUS granted a stay of execution in Texas.

March 12th, 2003 by Chris

Europe is Just Full of Interesting Tidbits

Anyone remember Miami Vice? How about Nash Bridges? Well the star of those two shows,Don Johnson, seems to be in a little bit of trouble. He was caught driving in Europe with $8 billion in bonds he says he was going to use to buy a car. I guess that’s the new codeword for cocaine.

And the Serbian Prime Minister seems to have gotten on someones bad side. I guess someone felt he looked better with some holes in him.

March 12th, 2003 by wwb

I Am Not Impressed

From today’s edition of The Trentonian:

    An underage Princeton University coed was found drunk, incoherent and covered in vomit outside the controversial Colonial Club over the weekend. … The coed, whose name was not released, was taken to Princeton Medical Center, where she was treated and later released. The incident was the latest in the ugly history of boozing by students of the Ivy League school considered one of the most prestigious in the nation.

You can read more about it here. What’s more, The Trentonian (apparently New Jersey’s answer to the New York Daily News) also gives it a few more column inches here. This is a big deal at Princeton these days — I’ve been following developments on this one for a few weeks. So far, the only conclusion I’ve come to is that if I went to Princeton, I’d already have become a celebrity — an international drinking sensation, even!

Damn obscurity. I need a drink.

March 12th, 2003 by pete

Attack North Korea?

Why not, says Robert Greene in The New Republic.

Also, an interesting article on Howard Dean, a potential George McGovern style foe for the ’04 race.

March 11th, 2003 by pete

OC Rip-Off Alert

Check out this funny story from Vanderbilt. I seem to remember the OC pulling a similar prank…

March 11th, 2003 by Bret

Help Wanted Deadline This Week

Though the OC always accepts staff applications, we are quickly approaching our deadline for next year’s staff leadership positions. All positions have been opened to all to ensure the highest quality staff possible. We encourage our avid readers to look through our “Help Wanted” post to see if there are any positions that might suit their talents and interests. Print out an application and have them into EMU 319 by ***March 15*** for any position other than contributor. Come help us continue to make this the best damn publication on campus.