Wooo! We're number 1!

The Daily Cal, number 1 in web excellence, once again has a nonfunctional website. This is too bad, because there's a cartoon which desperately needs interpretation from Brad Aldridge.

Update: I guess they're back. Now with links!

Here we go: There's a pregnant woman, asking some dude "Oh, Honey! What will our baby boy grow up to be? A Rehnquist? A Scalia? A Warren?" The dude says "Sounds Risky to me. Honey, maybe we should reconsider." I couldn't figure it out. Is it a suggestion that we shouldn't even fill the vacancies? Or maybe require people to have faces before they have children?

There is a balance when it comes to cartooning. One needs to balance between the extremes of undecipherable and uninteresting. The Daily Cal, however, likes the extremes, I guess.

There's also some complaining from Pablo Lopez about how The Daily Cal didn't cover hurricane Katrina closely enough, which really says more about the dude who uses The Daily Cal to get his national news than it does about The Daily Cal. Anne Barrows is talking about... uh... something. I don't really know what it is. Any ideas? It seems to be in line with the equally inexplicable Ron Lowe letter in today's Planet.

Anyway, it turns out that I was right, as the front page had a giant "The Asians are coming!" warning, including a pie chart where more than half of the pie was labelled "Other." (in text form at the bottom of the web page, I guess)

posted by Beetle Aurora Drake 9/16/2005 03:07:00 PM #
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the rest of them come from Guam.

notice that the "breakdown" by national origin is neither alphabetical nor in order (descending or ascending) of share of entering class?

# posted by  Anonymous : 3:17 AM, September 17, 2005

 

as for the cartoon: isn't it really about late term abortion?

# posted by  Anonymous : 3:18 AM, September 17, 2005

 

wow, you're dense. the cartoon is so obviously about the supreme court hearings and roberts' refusal to give even a glimpse of his politics/beliefs thus making it impossible who he will turn out to be. its also a subtle roe v wade joke.

# posted by  Anonymous : 10:28 PM, September 19, 2005

 

Hah, anonymous, I think you missed the joke.

# posted by  Anonymous : 5:12 AM, September 20, 2005

 

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