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Editorials October 19th, 2006
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From the Editor's Desk
Commenting on the news
Arthur
McLean

You know your college football team has a problem when people are no longer really shocked that they've gotten into a massive, nasty brawl. Oh, sure, all the folks on TV had to put on the act, but really, is anybody all that surprised that the University of Miami's football team found itself in this situation?

It's sad, but no longer shocking for a program that puts massive amounts of completely undisciplined talent on the field.

Thomasville in the news

Thomasville was again the subject of a feature in one of Alabama's major daily newspapers this week. The Birmingham News ran a feature on our lovely little burg Sunday. I haven't seen the actual paper, so I don't know if they ran the same 10-year-old photo the Mobile Reg - excuse me - the The Press-Register ran a few months ago, complete with mustache.

Speaking of the Press-Register, how many times are they going to tweak that publication's name anyway? I don't care what they call it, those in Mobile who don't like the paper have a name they've stuck with for decades, and it ain't going away anytime soon.

But I'm not going to be too harsh, everyday in the newspaper business is like living the old adage about not being able to please everybody.

Child labor

I'm a bit saddened by the news that Steve Irwin's daughter is going to be in a television nature show. The girl's eight years old. I feel like I've landed in the movie "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou."

Brand new nukes

Following up on last week's column, did you know that America is planning to build a new nuclear warhead? The old ones are just getting too old, apparently.

I have no idea what an old nuclear warhead would do if you tried to detonate it, and apparently no one else does either. So, we're going to build brand new ones.

But we're not going to test them. We're going to simulate them on computers. But the computers aren't powerful enough yet to simulate a nuclear bomb.

So, we'll have no idea what a new bomb will do either.

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