Saturday Morning Quick Hits: Thank God Finals Ended

Three minutes ago, I sent in my last paper for the Fall 2007 semester.  Finals are over, thank God!  After spending nearly three days without sleep, this will be a tired edition of Saturday Morning Quick Hits:

• Note to self the following things are not good in combination with each other: no sleep for three days, 2 cans of Rockstar, 5 Jello chocolate and vanilla swirl pudding cups, drinkable yogurt, and apple cider airborne.
• If John Rawls’ A Theory of Justice is a silly thought experiment, and as completely unimplementable as I think it is, why do I use it so often to write papers?
• Here is a good frame buster: Waterboarding doesn’t simulate drowning. It simulates death.  Stop doing it!
• This Weeks Nice Thing I Say About Steve Novick: His article in Harpers this week was really good press, and he didn’t talk once about Merkley.
• Danny Haren was traded by my beloved Oakland A’s yesterday. I am crushed but “In Billy Beane We Trust.”
• Speaking of baseball, I enjoy rebuilding teams, as I find the strategy behind building a team absolutely fascinating.

There will be a special Sunday post here on Forward Oregon. Tomorrow, before I go home for the holidays, I will be writing about the Merkley-Tester event in Portland tonight.  Hope to see you there.

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Tags: QuickHits, Baseball, Dan Haren, This Weeks Nice Thing I Say About Steve Novick, Finals, Fall 2007, Jeff Merkley, Jon Tester