All posts by Sean Shannon

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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Bowling Green 17 — No. 5 Ohio State 24Marshall 27 — No. 6 Kansas State 20Toledo 35 — No. 9 Pittsburgh 31 The entire NCAA and the sports press are on notice as of right now: The Mid-American Conference is for real. (And stupid me didn’t go to the UT game because I thought our Student Government President jinxed us when he predicted victory in an e-mail yesterday. D’OH!)

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