Since last August, I’ve been Tiger Weekly’s Editor in Chief. With the start of the new semester, a new editor will be taking over: Kayla Falgoust. She’s been an incredible Music Editor, and I know she’ll do wonders as Editor in Chief.

I’ve enjoyed my time at Tiger Weekly, but it wasn’t meant to last forever. In May I’ll be graduating and leaving Louisiana for a law school somewhere north of the Deep South. Since I need to spend this semester picking a law school, including by doing a lot of traveling to visit schools, I figured it was better to let a new editor take over while I was still around to help her get ahold of things.

So, look forward to seeing Kayla’s work. Farewell, loyal Tiger Weekly readers! It’s been a trip.

If Al Franken wins the Minnesota Senate race as expected, I will have correctly predicted every Senate race this year, along with being one electoral vote off (thank you, Omaha).

 So, in this New Year, I’ll dust off the crystal ball and offer my predictions for 2009:

*Withi

You say we haven’t seen Obama’s birth certificate.

Have you seen the birth certificate for George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, or Richard Nixon?

…Would be easier if I knew where I wanted to live. I’ll probably want to live in the Midwest, Mountain West, or Mid Atlantic (which I define as Pennsylvania to North Carolina). Maybe the Pacific Northwest.  

Aside from UCLA, all of the schools I have applied to are north of Louisiana, in North Carolina (Duke, Wake Forest), Virginia (U of Virginia, William and Mary), Pennsylvania (Drexel), New York (Columbia, NYU), Connecticut (UConn), Michigan (U of Michigan), Missouri (Washington University in St. Louis), Washington (University of Washington-Seattle), and Minnesota (University of Minnesota). So, that makes thirteen completed applications, and at least three to go (Iowa, Harvard, Cornell). I’m also looking into some other schools, like Colorado, Utah, and UC-Davis.

Here are three gems from last week.

“She shouldn’t have gaven me a 2 out of 20.”

“I have two papers to do, and I haven’t even picked the topic for one of them. Should I do incest?”

“I view God the way I view my ex-boyfriend. We’re cool, but we don’t really talk.”

I saw gas being sold for this price in southeast Missouri (yes, I only saw it because I was dumb and didn’t stop - I had to pay all of $1.37 per gallon at the next stop).

I’m back at home now, after travelling 1100 miles in less than 24 hours. I like to take the long drive at a more leisurely pace, but I was trying to beat an ice storm.

Amazingly enough in this day, all my car has is a plain radio. No XM, no MP3 adapter, not even a CD player. I had to hear - that is, turn off - way too much Nickelback. But I did pick up a few interesting tidbits in Missouri at 4:00 AM, like a report from the BBC about unrest in Bolivia and a pastor saying ”I don’t believe in cavemen.”

And you thought I was backwards for not having a CD player. Seriously, there were no cavemen? I thought the whole dinosaurs thing was funny, but this just blows my mind.

Illinois Governor Rod Blagoevich, a Democrat, was arrested today. Among the charges were that he tried to sell the appointment to Obama’s former Senate seat.

While, in the short term, this is bad news for the Democrats, as was the loss of Democrat William Jefferson, Congressman from New Orleans, in the long term they’ll be better off without those crooks bringing down their name.

Civilization, Doom, Pokemon, and Crystalis for the NES.

I haven’t played any video games in years.

“Obama’s current approval rating is also more than 50 points higher than President Bush’s current approval rating, which now stands at 28 percent — with 71 percent disapproving of the way Bush is handling his job as president.”

http://us.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/09/Obama.poll/

http://www.alternatehistory.com/

Yeah, I know, I’m a geek. But it least it isn’t a new political blog.