Word: stupidities
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...short. A good point is scored about the seepage between the realities of adolescent life and the ways it is portrayed in the media. Finally, Matinee assaults the general goofiness of American life in the period -- bomb shelters, duck-and-cover air-raid drills, general prudishness and even stupid nutritional beliefs...
Could MOD have been stupid enough to leave behind such a confession? One member says the gang was framed by a rival hacker who liquidated the Learning Link himself. The defendants' court-appointed lawyers claim the feds have built an elaborate Mafia-like case against rebellious yet relatively harmless kids. "Being arrogant and obnoxious is not a crime," argues attorney Michael Godwin of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a group that defends exploratory hacking. As for Masters of Disaster, he adds, "it's just a way-cool name. Teenagers aren't going to call themselves the Electronic Birdwatchers Society." While most...
School Fight Songs: They've got "All Hail Northeastern." We've got "10,000 Men of Harvard". An anonymous Northeastern administration staff member labeled the Huskies song "stupid." She sang it to me, and I'd have to agree. So let's sing again, 10,000 men of Harvard gain victory today. Fight song, score for Harvard...
...laid a hand on Amy Fisher." He praised his old network, NBC, for behaving "honorably and as gentlemen," then remarked, "What I will miss most are the back rubs from Irving R. Levine. The man is a master." A reporter asked if any of Letterman's familiar bits, like Stupid Pet Tricks, are still the property of NBC. "They own the rights to my old ice-dancing routine," he replied. When will his new show on CBS begin? "In August," he said. "And we should probably finish up around Labor Day." Then to CBS president Laurence Tisch, sitting...
First to substance. It is obvious, or should be, that the only thing worse than breaking a stupid promise is keeping it. Clinton is right to say it would be foolish to keep those pledges that changing circumstances dictate should be shaved or abandoned. Consider a few currently causing the media apoplexy...