I believe the phrase is, "Boom, there it is."

We interrupt your regularly scheduled Ellie babble for this important bit of gloating. mallen, this one's for you.

Syracuse paints the town orange
( Victory is so sweet! )

Syracuse 81, Kansas 78

For more images of Syracuse's glorious victory, just go here, it is a true thing of beauty. And for the full gorgeous stats, you can check this out. NCAA title champions, say it with me now, mmm, doesn't that feel good? And how does victory taste? Why a lot like Afghan food, as it so happens. I'm eagerly looking forward to that dinner, mallen, that is after you're quite finished crying over Kansas' defeat.

End gloating.

And for everyone who thinks I'm a bit overenthusiastic in my loathing of cockroaches: Hong Kong Health Officials Eye Cockroaches as Possible Carriers of SARS

See? They are disgusting little disease-ridden vermin. *shudder*

Not much to say about yesterday, it was a good day, passed by quickly, and class was as fantastic as always. For some strange reason my zill playing was complete shit last night. I'd like to blame it on my wrist, but that seems to have stabilized and working it every week is definitely strengthening it, so no good. Just an off night I guess, but on the plus side I seem to have gotten most of the footwork and that's something. More practice, practice, practice!

( A slight foray into politics... )

Correct me if I'm wrong...

I'm certainly no Constitutional scholar, but is there a passage or amendment in the Constitution that actually spells out that heterosexual sex is a protected right in this country. I don't think there is, but, it certainly makes the following argument kind of hard to swallow:

Backers of the Texas law assert there is no fundamental right in the Constitution to engage in certain sexual activity. To strike down the law, they say, could create such a right and lay the legal groundwork for recognition of same-sex marriages.

It's from the following article:
"Homosexual Conduct" and the Court:

An overzealous pair of Houston policemen, who arrested two adult men engaged in consensual sex in a private residence, have set the stage for the most important court decision on the rights of gay and lesbian Americans in a generation.

The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing oral arguments in Lambda Legal's case challenging the constitutionality of Texas's "Homosexual Conduct" law, which criminalizes oral and anal sex by consenting gay couples.

But does the following argument hold water?

Or the court can issue a much broader ruling, declaring American bedrooms to be protected by fundamental concepts of liberty and privacy and off limits to state scrutiny. Such a decision would invalidate all 13 sodomy laws nationwide, and would overturn a 1986 court precedent upholding Georgia's sodomy law.

I certainly like to think so, I mean that'd be my interpretation. Guess we'll have to wait until June to find out, though. And it would be so nice if the writers of the article had included bisexuals as well as gays and lesbians as being effected by this decision. Ah well, why quibble, right?