Overheard by Overread

Dafthead in the breakfast line:

"Can I get a muffin without any meat in it? I just want the bacon."

Ah, bacon. It truly is a miracle product.

Overheard

Best overheard: From a female student looking at her neighbor's laptop in the back row of an undergrad class I'm taking: "Oh my god! It's like three tranny hookers!"

I tried so hard to eavesdrop for the rest of the conversation, but no luck

Runner up, walking back to the office, "No, the first testament was like so cool! Everyone went around smiting each other!"

Politics Comes To Campus

Overheard:

"No! Edwards' wife has, like totally normal hair!"

Question of the Week (Perhaps the Month)

(undergrad furiously typing on her cellberry thing): Is it "'abstinence makes the heart grow fonder' or 'absence'?"

And better yet, the question was aimed at me. I feel good that I can help out the leaders of tomorrow like this.

(alternate title: 'Bush's New Sex-ed Czar Speaks')

Of Handbaskets and Hell

Overheard in a very swanky deli:

"No, man. It all started on 9/11. They killed 3000 of our civilians. We owe them some civilians. I mean how come on 9/11 they kill 3000 civilians and it's no big deal, but when we kill some it's this huge deal?"

Sometimes it's hard for me to understand why we elect some of the people we do, why certain tv shows stay on the air and some fail, why a frightening percentage of the world sees the US as a threat. Then I hear something like this.