“news” overload

I’m sure I’m watching and reading way too much “news” lately. I like to have it on in the background while I read. Not only do I know way more than I ever wanted to about things that I don’t care about and that I don’t think are very newsworthy (Paris’ stint in jail, for [...]

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lost in translation

My sister and I chatted online during George’s big speech last night. Our commentary was far better than anything you could find on the news. I wish I could print it all, but our actual commentary is filled with some seriously bad language. So, I’ll cut all that out and give you the translation we [...]

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Watershed’s 15 minutes

I never really imagined this blog would be of any wider public interest. When I write, I think of the friends and family out there who I know read Watershed. I mean, 99% of Watershed is about pretty mundane stuff- grad school, traveling, reading, movies, daily life etc. None of that would be of much [...]

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Ladies Home Journal: not entirely terrible.

You might remember my mysterious subscription to Ladies Home Journal (if not, read about it here, and here).
Yes, there is a ton of crap in this magazine. Actually it is 98% crap. There are way, way too many advertisements- and all the ones for pharmacuticals and diet pills really irritate me. When they have articles [...]

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illumination*

Things I learned in the news this week:

heterosexual people get AIDS too! (on the 25 year anniversary of the discovery of the AIDS virus)
the Canadian border is 4x longer than the Mexican border, but somehow has only 1/30th the amount of border patrol.
my 9 year committed relationship threatens heterosexual marriage. marriage must be defended from [...]

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lessons from my brief encounter with msnbc

As I mentioned before, I emailed the Abrams Report on msnbc the other day. I don’t usually watch the show as I think Dan is a serious shmuck. Well, I happened to have it on in the background while I was working on something else. There were a bunch of guys talking about the Duke [...]

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half of the time we’re gone and we don’t know where

Tonight I am working on my dissertation proposal. I am thrilled to be working on it. It is so much more fun and fascinating than the boring bread-and-butter job I spent a tedious day at. When I make the time, clear my mind of most of the self-doubt, and end the struggle in my head [...]

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of pinkos, feminists, termites and manliness

In case anyone missed it, Pat Robertson (who is seriously becoming more insane every day) made some interesting comments about professors on the 700 Club yesterday. Countdown with Keith Olberman ran the story last night.
“But it’s the professors, the 101 most dangerous academics in America, and that’s just a short list of the 30, 40,000 [...]

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must miss TV

I watch the news in the morning- Charlie, Diane and Robin on GMA. I don’t know why sometimes. I like to hear the headlines, and the weather, and having noise in the morning to focus on helps me wake up.
This morning the major focus is the problem of too many choices on TV tonight. The [...]

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back to the Monday morning rant

Why does last night’s episode of Desperate Housewives make the morning news as if the made-up (and it seems to also be badly acted) TV show is really real news happening? Every single Monday morning on the news they talk about this show. What about other real news going on the world? Or would that [...]

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God’s got the Hefty Bag

A story from the morning news that had Jo and I laughing… [emphasis mine]
Sunday morning, many Mifflin residents were “miffed” by the presence of some unexpected help in their cleanup efforts. [you know the news was just waiting for a place to sneak in that "miffed" part]
“It’s been kinda fun. There were a couple people [...]

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political stupidity I can’t handle anymore

tonight I was watching Hardball and it was about Fahrenheit 9.11. Now, if I was going to talk on a show where a certain film was the topic of discussion, I would actually see the film. I mean, isn’t it just a nice general practice to be acquainted with whatever you are going to be [...]

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news is hell and i can’t take it anymore

I am a news junkie- CNN, CSPAN, MSNBC etc… I can’t seem to stomach FOX anymore after reading a year’s worth of their news coverage before the war in Iraq for my masters thesis- but that’s beside the point. Anyway. I am going through serious news withdrawal. I like to wake up and drink my [...]

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