It’s the fifth week of the semester and I think I’m already starting to get a case of senioritis … granted, I’m still coming off that cold and I don’t feel all that great as yet, but I’m already starting to feel a bit of drain. The homework load for this weekend is obscenely big, so hopefully I can get a good start on it during the week and I won’t get burnt out at the end. The fun part about the counseling I’m currently…

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Gallup Poll Analyses – Americans Grow More Doubtful About Iraq War Dubya’s approval rating is now down below pre-09.11 levels, more people than ever are saying the war in Iraq is not over, more people than ever think that the situation in Iraq wasn’t worth going to war over … is that blood I smell?

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Well, Safe Sex Education Night made the front page of the campus paper and got a pretty good-sized article, so I’m happy. Hopefully between the Matthew Shepard Vigil and the GLBT Political Forum next month, Spectrum’s visibility on campus will shoot through the roof.

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Ah, you always know it’s the end of summer when the Cincinnati Bengals get mathematically eliminated from the playoffs. By some miracle we got the Bengals game here in Toledo, and of course it’s another close, painful loss. Ugh. Of course we’ll get Bengals-Browns next week, making this probably the first time Toledo’s gotten three straight Bengals games since the Bengals’ last heyday in the early 90s. (And of course back then I was a Colts fan, so I didn’t get a chance to enjoy…

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New on Backwash: “SEX, SEX, SEX, SEX, SEX”. I was getting sick and tired of my columns not receiving any feedback, so I decided to just go for everyone’s basest instincts. Actually, the column is about sex education, and my own efforts in that regard, so it’s not an inaccurate column title. It’s just purile. Then again, so am I.

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