Blogs by The Ithacan

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bigspoon
04/17/2009 at 04:53 pm
With Easter officially over and Christmas more than eight months away, God needs something to do with all of His free time. I would suggest he finds a clever way to smite Octo-Mom, but apparently the Almighty prefers to waste time the same way we humans do: Facebook. Yes, you can now become a fan of [...]
ecodump
05/25/2009 at 12:19 pm
Waxman-Markey climate and energy bill passed in the House Energy and Commerce Committee!!! This is a landmark bill which is well on its way to becoming one of the biggest shifts in energy and environmental politics since the Clean Air Act. The vote passed 33-25 last Thursday. The bill sets up a cap-and-trade program on carbon [...]
collegeave
05/27/2009 at 09:48 am
Graduation and covering all of IC’s enrollment issues threw me off the College Ave trail … I haven’t blogged in at least a month. Embarrassing. But good news for me (and you) I’ll be updating more regularly now that I also work at The Chronicle. (Here’s where the disclosure comes in). The Chronicle has always been [...]
twocents
03/23/2009 at 01:00 am
You don’t have to know with certainty what’s right and what’s wrong, but you can know what’s stupid. … Taxing bonuses at AIG is stupid. Anything that Congress passes in a short period of time is pretty much stupid. -Adam Davidson, business and economics reporter at NPR at the Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism on writing about business
hattrick
04/15/2009 at 05:01 pm
Hey all. Since we last talked a lot of stuff has gone down in the world of college sports. Both tourneys came to a close with the UNC Tar Heels winning yet another national championship sending the Chapel Hill faithful into a complete frenzy. The UConn Huskies won the women’s tournament, giving Head Coach Geno [...]
thespectrum
04/01/2009 at 08:46 pm
The Obama Administration, as we have noted with some interest, seems to have a novel and altogether brilliant strategy for increasing revenues to the United States government: Nominate tax cheaters to high office, and rely on the ensuing media investigation to embarrass these nominees into paying up! Daft, don’t you think? Here is the O Administration’s [...]