This had to be done, it simply had to be done.

Good for these guys. John Kerry comes out in front of a bunch of California college students and proceeds to say that lack of seriousness regarding your education will get you stuck in Iraq. He's met by a rousing chorus of indifference from the Democrats, white-hot anger from the Republicans, and, as pictured, the best response of all from the troops themselves.

So Kerry says it was botched joke. No. A reverend, a priest, and a rabbit walking into a bar is a botched joke. He claims he meant to say that not being serious about your education would cause you to get us stuck in Iraq. So it was yet another shot at Bush's intelligence. It's amazing, you'd think the Democrats would rather elect a public speaker than an actual leader.

What's even more amazing is that, at first, Kerry refused to apologize. Well, he did apologize Wednesday, so I guess everything is okay now. One positive thing to come out of all of this is the fact that the media actually called a Democrat out on something. It's frustrating though, knowing that if a conservative had said the exact same thing they would have been crucified before they could even think about apologizing.

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Why is it that foreign language professors feel the need to talk to you in the language they teach, even when not in class? You don't have biology teachers walking up to you and asking you about cell structure, or history teachers asking you about the War of 1812, yet every time your spanish professor walks by they always say "Hola, como estas?" and you suddenly find yourself struggling to answer a question in a language you detest.

And then there's this teacher who is quite possibly the most god-awful excuse for a professor that has ever existed. She has never handed out in sort of study guide, grading rubric, or any sort of warning about what mood she'll be in. She counts off points if you use extra material to validate your point. Even though she is teaching a junior level course, she wants sentences to be roughly third-grade in style and construct. She should be at a middle-school, not in any college anywhere, because that is exactly how she treats her students. I can't wait on teacher evaluations. I normally don't even use the yellow comment sheets, but this time I think I'll use about three or four.