On behalf of UC Berkeley we are sending this message to Cal families to update you on recent news regarding the 2011-12 tuition . . .
A 9.6 PERCENT TUITION INCREASE!? I THOUGHT YOU WERE A BUNCH OF GODDAMN HIPPIES WHO DON’T CARE ABOUT MONEY!
Unlike highly recruited athletes, kids who are highly recruited academically don’t get to go on TV and turn over hats so everyone knows what college they’re going to.
Northwood doesn’t have highly recruited athletes, so there’s a Facebook site where they can check in and state their college choice.
Also unlike athletes, who are evaluated on a 5-star scale, Northwood students are evaluated on a 3-star scale, according to the commencement program that I have right here in front of me:
*** = Highest honors (4.3 GPA or above) ** = High honors (4.0 or above, but below 4.3) * = Honors (Not sure; close to a 4.0 but not quite there)
It looks like Cal got the best recruiting class this year with three 3-star prospects and no one lower than 2 stars. USC and Stanford each got one 3-star recruit, as did Harvard and Yale.
To the kids going to Cal: GO BEARS!
To the kids going to USC: FIGHT ON!
To the kids going to Stanford: CONGRATULATIONS DORKS!
To everyone else: BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME!
And to the girls below: I don’t know you but you made me laugh . . .
MEXICO (PIX11) — Mexican drug traffickers are abducting bus passengers and forcing them to fight each other like gladiators according to published reports. The winners of the fights are then ordered to become assassins.
This would make GREAT television! I’m pitching it as a reality show/game show hybrid.
Working title: Who Wants to be a Mexican Hit Man?
It’s a video update!
Sounds Better Than it Really Is Award: Free Slurpee Day — It turns out that a “slurpee” is actually a beverage . . .
If you’re fat, don’t say you “work out,” just say you “exercise.”
. . . pay attention to these helpful tips.
Space Shuttle Atlantis Lifts Off for Last Mission
Hall of Fame manager Dick Williams, who won two World Series titles with Oakland and led two other franchises to pennants, has died. He was 82.
Williams also managed our local club, the Angels, although he was better known for his work with other teams.
I remember he once said to an umpire, “They’re not just booing that call. They’re booing your whole career.”
RIP Dick Williams
Here’s the latest slideshow
Here’s a young man enjoying the beach at Cannes, probably as a high school graduation trip with his friends.
He looks like he’s enjoying himself, clowning it up for the camera . . .
On June 1, 2011, the City of Los Angeles reached a significant milestone in its historic preservation program: the approval of City Historic-Cultural Monument #1000, the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance building at 1999 W. Adams Boulevard in West Adams. The Golden State Mutual Building is a very fitting recipient of this honor. Built in 1949, this six-story commercial building was designed in the Late Moderne style by architect Paul R. Williams 1894-1980. Williams was the first certified African-American architect west of the Mississippi River, the first African-American member of the American Institute of Architects, and also served on the first Los Angeles Planning Commission in 1920.
FARGO — An eyewitness here says a Fourth of July fireworks accident decapitated a Fargo man Monday night. Police identified the victim as Jesse William Burley, a 41-year-old father of two, who enjoyed life to its fullest, said Burley’s stepfather Chuck Asplin of Fargo.
If by “enjoyed life to the fullest,” you mean “had no fucking sense.” He died doing what he loved — being a complete asshole.
Maybe I can’t say that I enjoy life to the fullest, but at least my head is still attached to my shoulders . . .
I was a son to my father . . .
And he taught me and said to me,
“Let your heart hold fast my words. . . .”
If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. — Mary Engelbreit
Town of Onondaga, NY — A Parish man who was participating in a motorcycle helmet protest ride was killed this afternoon when he went over the handlebars of his motorcycle and injured his head on the pavement, state police said.
Posting this for the irony, not because I think helmet laws are a good thing.
Should we require people to wear crash helmets in their cars? It would save a lot more lives than motorcycle helmet laws.
Hard-working Americans should not be forced to protect themselves from fatal head injuries.
FREEDOM!
“Don’t you find yourself getting bored?” she asked of her sister. “Don’t you find, that things fail to materialise? Nothing materialises! Everything withers in the bud.”
“What withers in the bud?” asked Ursula.
“Oh, everything–oneself–things in general.”
