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| From CollegeFootballTalk.com:
WHY NO GATORADE SHOWER FOR
MANGINO?
If the e-mails we've received over the last six hours or so are any
indication, the No. 1 subject on the minds of college football fans after
Kansas beat Virginia Tech in the Orange Bowl is this: Why did a Kansas
assistant prevent coach Mark Mangino from getting a Gatorade shower?
The
Fox cameras showed a couple of Kansas players preparing to douse their
enormous coach in Gatorade, but several Kansas assistants got in the way,
and one physically removed the Gatorade bucket from the player's hands.
Is
there a health concern that makes it dangerous for Mangino to be covered in
icy liquid? Or was it just a matter of comfort? Or does Mangino think the
Gatorade bath is poor sportsmanship? The world wants to know. ------------------------------------
If my favorite college coach can't get a Gatorade shower due to health concerns, then this only adds to his legend. Go Kansas Fighting Manginos!
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| I absolutely can not wait to go back to State College. I need to be productive again, and I need the gym, Taekwon-Do, and the weight room again. I don't know how unemployed and retired people keep busy with themselves. At least cheaply.
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| I'm bored as bored can be living at home these past few days, so I'm making a Xanga entry. Those last couple entries were rather emo, so they're gone.
I never check this thing, or what people write in it, save a couple I have on RSS feeds. I'll have to make it more of a habit, cause this page is turning into a wasteland!
What's been new in my life?
-Been hanging out a lot with old friends, and newer old friends. I want to get back to State College, however. Lansdale has a way of sucking your soul out of you, one commercial at a time.
-Last academic semester before student teaching starts on the 14th. I've got Quantum Chemistry, PChem Lab, Special Education, Cell Biology, Transition Metal Chemistry, and Korean. I can't wait to finish up school, so I can get out and start doing my thing.
-Went to a New Year's gathering at Roy's house, which was nostalgically fun. I got to meet Roy's new girlfriend, which was pretty cool. As is the case with all of us, it's pretty weird to watch all the people you have known evolve into the real world and make future plans, not expecting people to do certain things. Some people have realized their potential, others have not, but we're all still cool cats in this rat race.
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I got into an interesting discussion about politics at the New Year's party. I asked a friend what his big issues are for the upcoming Presidential election, and he said that abortion and marriage were his big issues. The abortion one is touchy, so I don't like arguing that one, not sure what my political stance is on it, all I know is that I would do my best not to put myself in that position. The marriage thing always confuses me, though. When asked about why gay marriage is a big political issue for him, he gave the tired line that marriage is a capitalized "Sacred Institution" that shouldn't be open to homosexuals. How long has it been since marriage has been treated as a Sacred Institution in the United States? This is a classic example of Christians picking one sin over another and giving them relative importance. I am sick and tired of Christians demarcating themselves as "above" certain vices. Sure, we may lie, cheat, steal from people, we might have sins of the mind, we might lust over the opposite sex, we might broker a business deal in church, we might screw up in one of the millions of ways that God says that people can screw up, yet we don't have it in our hearts to say "you know what, you don't have to be perfect, either."
People marry for lots of reasons, for money, for power, for possible tax reasons, for depression, for lust, for just settling for some guy/girl cause you're 35 and still not married, but hardly for love anymore. All those things are, according to the spiritual Rulebook that apparently is the Bible, sinful. Okay, so being gay is sinful. But it's okay to let all that stuff go on, and pinpoint a certain group of people and say "You can't, cause you're sinners." You guys are Christian persecutors. Love the gays. Treat them like your brothers and sisters. You all came from the same decaying organic matter that God made you with. You're all worthy of hell and damnation. Show some unity.
Politics is not religion. Say that you can't have a Christian marriage if you're gay. But if you do that, I expect you to stand up at each wedding you go to and object if there's a marriage going on that doesn't fit God's billing according to the holy Rulebook. Because my Bible says to love your neighbor as thyself, because we're all screwups, we're all sinners, and we all make mistakes. And I'm fully aware that it is NOT our job to judge one sin as more valuable or worthy of our gossip or political battles as any other. We are not to play God. We are not the judge.
This whole issue of gay marriage is stupid. It's clear that an American marriage is different than a Christian marriage, and they will never be the same. Who knows, maybe if gays actually think you're on their side (GASP), they might actually want to listen to you about what a do-good, loving person you are instead of hating your absolute guts for being a spiritual hypocrite.
I'm done. Fire away.
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| Hey everyone, I've decided to start writing again.
More to come when I'm not bogged down by homework.
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