Tomorrow the serious news will be invading the consciousness of even the most ardent sports fans. It is, in case you hadn’t quite realized yet, the battle for the White House, Obama vs. Romney, the greatest showdown of 2012.
Intermission understands how busy Wednesday nights are at Stanford, and
we get that even the most civic-minded students may have missed some or all of last
Wednesday’s presidential debate.
“I like PBS. I like Big Bird.”
If this was all that Mitt Romney had said about the Public Broadcasting Service during the first presidential debate this week, I would have had nothing to write but, “Me, too.” Instead, he declared that he would cut government subsidies for PBS as a way to save money and put it toward “more important” uses.
With celebrity sightings in the dozens, street fashion bloggers toting cameras-a-clickin’ and that weird thespian display from Clint Eastwood, pundits and tweeters have had good reason to call the national conventions $18 million circuses. But who are we to judge the political hooplah? Intermission is concerned only with the cultural hooplah, and here we give it points in a nonpartisan bi-columnal breakdown.
As a freshman at Stanford, Romney put his pranking skills to work in service of one of the nation’s great college rivalries.