I’m watching the National Spelling Bee finals right now and remember how, when I was a kid, I was convinced that spelling bees were some sort of highly effective torture device. I still have the missed words from my third and fifth-grade spelling bees burned into my brain.
T-O-M-M-O-R-O-W
Oops.
An appeals court has struck down the Allegheny county smoking ban that was to have gone into effect on May 1.
This news really, really disappoints me. Frankly, I don’t see this as a personal freedom issue. To me, it is completely a public health issue and I truly believe that smoking should be banned in all public places, inside and outside. I don’t care what people do on their own personal property. I have no objections if anybody wants to turn the inside of their house or car blue with cigarette smoke. But I don’t think anybody has the right to expose me to a known carcinogen against my will.
Graduation weekend here at CMU has come and gone. After three years here, I still haven’t quite wrapped my head around CMU’s idea of commencement, with doctoral hoods, diplomas, and degrees conferred at three separate ceremonies. This seems to me, a product of UW-Madison’s ruthlessly efficient commencement process, unnecessarily complicated.
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