Boo to the State Fair starting up this weekend. We admit that we’re a little bitter about needing to study for a few more exams this weekend when we’d rather be rockin’ the love shack with the B-52s during the opening weekend. But prices are kind of steep for the average college student (when you take all of the collateral fees into account). Not to mention the festival grounds are more crowded than Palm Walk at noon and all of the carnival rides spin us until our stomachs become sacks full of gastric acid, falafel, grease, fry bread, beer and deep fried novelties (deep-fried Coca Cola anyone?). If you’ve never vomited up deep-fried cheesecake after taking a spin in the Gravitron, then be warned. At least one redeeming thing for this year’s fair is Snoop Dogg’s visit. As long as he doesn’t bring the Biebs out of his bag of tricks, we’re cool.
Bravo to the Game Day Initiative for successfully exciting students enough to go to football games. Only 5,800 students showed up for our first home game and only three weeks later, the numbers increased to 8,100. It’s not quite the ideal number of ASU fans, and probably doesn’t take into account the blobs of students who leave at halftime, but it’s certainly a giant step toward building the kind of tradition and morale needed at ASU.
Boo to professional athletes’ disregard of consequences when sending pictures over the phone, specifically pictures of themselves naked. Greg Oden, Grady Sizemore, Darnell Dockett and now possibly Brett Favre are all athletes that have ended up with naked or near naked photos circling the Internet. Favre is 41 years old, so he might not understand how cell phone photography works, but he should have the maturity to understand that sending pictures of your manhood to someone could be used in the wrong way.
Bravo to Hoover Dam Bridge. It only took eight years and $240 million. The bridge, which goes over the Colorado River, will help travelers cut time between Las Vegas and Phoenix — which is usually slow, annoying and held up by those tourists gawking at the Hoover Dam. At the dedication ceremony for the bridge U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said that he hopes it becomes another wonder of the world. We hope not … imagine having to build another bridge to bypass the bridge made to avoid Hoover gawkers.
Boo to the Obama administration calling for an emergency stay on the recently repealed “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. Regardless of whether you think Obama is trying to take a more Congressional approach to the policy’s ban or that he’s the king of broken promises, the fact is he has a chance to embrace change. The official reason for a more orderly repeal is that it changes military personnel policy during wartime. We get that such big issues take time, but giving someone the freedom to be who he or she is and then blocking it goes against what this nation and those who are fighting for it stand for.
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