A lot has happened in the past few days. I saw Michael Moore on campus Monday, had my second chemistry test Thursday, turned in my first paper for History today. Oh yeah, got my first essay back, finally, Tuesday. I got a C-. Not surprising, as I know nothing about writing. I know a little more, but not much. Oh, I understand what I have to do to write a paper, but something just isn't clicking. We have a meeting set up to talk about my writing. I guess mostly we will talk about my lack of skills. The professor is kinda cool, she holds her 'office hours', so called because it's supposed to mean they will be available in their office, at a coffee shop called Bentley's. Whenever I hear 'office hours', I still think someone's getting in trouble, cause that's what they call it when a Commanding Officer in the Marine Corps holds non-judicial punishment proceedings....

And you should see the email she sent out to all of her students, what a riot. I thought about putting it here, but if she somehow got wind of this thing, and decided to see what it is I write about for fun, it could very well piss her off, putting her email on the Internet. I'm definitely saving it though.

Ordered a laptop, finally. Earlier this week I needed to do some stuff on the computer, important school shit, and my wife was gobbling up the news. It will be nice to have a laptop at school so I can do any writing that I need to do on my own machine, but this week it sure would have been nice to work on another machine out on the patio, and not hog the machine inside. My wife is a voracious reader, and she is always on here when I'm not, reading everything she comes across. So, I called Dell. It will be here in a little over a week possibly. It would be nice if it were here before Thursday, I could use it to write about the shit Ann Coulter talks about as she speaks. Yep, she will be here Thursday, and I have tickets. Here's some comments from the opinion section of the school paper, just to give an idea of what a stir this is causing...

Coulter generalizes Muslims as murderers
I was killing time in the bookstore today and decided to leaf through Ann Coulter's new book, "How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must)" to get a good idea of what she will be talking about in her speech on campus next week.

I was appalled at the level of hatred and racism she displayed toward Muslims. She generalized all Muslims as snarling, vicious murderers who want nothing more than to come and slaughter all of us in our sleep.

And let's not forget about her now infamous suggestion that we should (in reference to the Sept 11, 2001 hijackers) "Invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them all to Christianity."

Then there's this one...

I also find it hard to believe that Michael Moore will be any less of a thorn in John Kerry's side. Does anyone remember any large scale attacks on Clinton? Yes, I know, the oral sex is not that big a deal. Except for the fact that it was occurring while he signed the "Defense Of Marriage Act" into law.

And one more...

Ann Coulter is one of the most inflammatory and bigoted figures in the news. Just take a look at a few of her quotes, as they speak for themselves. When speaking about Muslims shortly after Sept. 11, 2001, she declared, "We should invade... Christianity." If there were any who doubted her hatred of Muslims after that comment, she would make sure to set the record straight Sept. 11, 2003, when she said, "It's always so comforting when Muslims cite the precise verse from the Quran that tells them killing is wrong. Don't all empathetic human beings understand that instinctively? What if they lost their Quran that day and couldn't remember?"
Aside from the fact that the messages behind these statements contradict each other, it is clear that she has nothing but disdain for those of the Muslim faith, to the point where she views them as subhuman.

Coulter especially hates liberal college students, as shown in her address to the Conservative Political Action Conference: "When contemplating college liberals, you really regret once again that John Walker is not getting the death penalty.

Ok, enough about her. While Moore was speaking, a number of Republicans were waaaay up in the cheap seats chanting, "Four more years!" He tried to ignore them for a while, then ridicule, but they interrupted too much. They were escorted out finally, but they had strategically placed themselves throughout the arena. Every ten minutes or so they would start up again. After one group was ushered out, the next group would start in. They sure did keep security busy. :) It was kinda humorous.