Hey everybody... this is gonna be a short rant. Jeff is asleep and I've been keeping the monitor on long enough already. Just wanted to say that here's the new strip and you should all get psyched for r0x0r x-treme, an all day video game extravaganza. We will probably have a DDR Tournament and a Soul Calibur 2 Tournament. Saturday, April 12, noon-11:00 PM in the Pavilion Conference Center rooms 2 and 3. I'll update the post with more tomorrow... should also give me time to remember what I was gonna post aobut. ;)
     Okay, I'm awake, and here's the rest of the rant. I wanna say to all the pro-war people out there who haven't figured this out yet... leave the French alone. They're entitled to their opnion, and not supporting a foreign country in a war they don't believe them is totally their right. Is it possible that they're really pacifists and that they're not just doing it because they have oil deals with Iraq? I'd hate to break it to all you accusers and reactionaries, but it's the French public that protests war most of all, and you can't tell me the private citizens in France have oil deals with Iraq.
     So I'll admit, it's atrocious that a few radical protesters in France have defaced American and British WWII graves. And I'm sure the French authority is going to catch these criminals and make them responsible for their actions. I bet that if you went to France and (given you could speak the language) told the average person on the street that you're (A) American, and (B) Pro-war, they wouldn't accost you or harass you. Most French I'm sure wouldn't even see any real consequence in your existence. If you're lucky, you might end up in a political and social debate with the person, but they'd trounce you by citing news sources you've never heard of in your life.
     So what's with us renaming French Fries to "Freedom Fries?" When did this piece of stupidity rise to the surface? Does this show our solidarity against French opression? By renaming a food that was named after a culinary term, not the country? Frenching is a style of cutting, though the French themselves don't usually apply it to potatoes. French Fries got their name as a shortening of Frenched Fried Potatoes. Does this mean the potatoes are now Freedomed before they're fried? Can I go to a culinary school and learn how to Fredom things? Is it morally wrong that we're boiling Freedomed Potatoes in a boiling hot vat of oil? I'd say that's symbolic of something, for sure.
     There's someone on campus who has a huge sign in their window that says "Proud to be French and against the war" and then a little Tri-Colour underneath. I think today I'll walk over there and put up a sign facing in that says "Proud to be an American who respects the French opinion." Anyone who put that sign up must be feeling a little bit out of place right now, so maybe they'll appreciate a little bit of kindness. :)