Information Overload 6:

Freddy's Dead

(Well, from our little experiment last issue, I now know that at least a few people read this column, if only to see if they are mentioned in it. For people like that, I’ll warn you ahead of time: I wrote this with a hangover after a party that occurred a few weeks before you’ll be reading this, so don’t be surprised if your words are here to bite you. Anyone else who wants write-access to my brain: Get in line)

Okay, I’ve kept quiet this whole time over the FlyTrap issue, because I figured that everyone else was talking about a few blowjobs and lies more than enough to make up for me not doing so. But now that’s it’s kinda sorta over, my two cents: If it was about sex, well what’s the point of becoming the leader of the free world, aka Alpha Male #1, if one can’t get some on the side? And if it was about an abuse of power: Does a POTUS’s lying/perjuring himself in a civil matter affect the running of the country? And if it was about lying to the people of the country he supposedly serves: A)Doesn’t every politician, don’t we know and expect this from every politician, and didn’t we specifically elect this one with the knowledge that he was prone to this kind of thing. B)The POTUS should have more power than the rest of us. That’s what he’s there for. I don’t want him accountable at the same level the average person is. And with this, I shut my mouth forever on the issue…Everybody’s homework for the next few weeks: Research into what tangible policies/legislation/any non-talk-show-appearing-work Bob Barr has done as a member of the House. Because, frankly, I said I would, but I’m just too damn lazy…Just read a newsgroup post worrying that ANAK is acting as the secret government of Georgia Tech, and as the lapdog of Pres. Clough is insuring that all of his desired goals are implemented easily. Now, I’ll publicly state that I am not a member, and therefore am not the most informed person to talk on the subject (although, I do know some people who have been "outed" as members, and as far as I can tell (which isn’t too far) I don’t quite see it), but if it turns out to be true, well, good for them. To get anything done at a place as large as this Institute, there needs to be a small group of people who take it upon themselves to decide policy and implement it. Committees agree on nothing but beige…No, I didn’t mean for this issue’s column to be the pro-fascist edition…Interesting Question: Is it something about the C.S. program that causes their students to always wait until the last minute to do anything, or is it something about people who always wait until the last minute to do anything that makes them enter the C.S. program?…Interesting Question (equal air time edition): What is it about me that causes me to attack C.S. majors so? Is it that I am so opposed to their actions that I can’t keep quiet, is it that I’m afraid that they are negatively affecting the culture of the school, or is it just me lashing out against certain C.S. majors in the most passive-aggressive way possible?…

(The opinions expressed above are not those of the North Avenue Review, which has no opinion, nor even necessarily those of the author, who has all too many opinions. They are merely a collection of various thoughts, beliefs, and ideas collected over the previous three months. However, feel free to write to the paper at the addresses in the front on any or all of the above.)

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