March 14, 2006

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Miss Deaf Texas Struck By Train and other curious diversions
  • I'm going to the DC blogger happy hour tonight. Starts at 7:00pm at Yuca. Hopefully it will be less awkward than the last one that I inadvertently went to.

  • Salon.com has some balls and publishes some seriously controversial photos and videos from Abu Ghraib. It's good to see any news media in this country actually being ballsy. Jon Stewart made a joke at the Oscars that went something like this: Two of tonight's Best Picture nominees are films about crusading journalists, standing up to power and corruption despite personal risk. They're period pieces, obviously."

  • In a headline seemingly ripped from The Onion, a woman crowned Miss Deaf Texas was struck and killed by a train. I struggled with categorizing this post as "Humor," but let's face it; that's fucking funny. Sure it's tragic that an eighteen-year old girl was killed, but it's a train!
    1. Trains are not motionless predators lying in wait, alerting prey only by their horn toots, finally pouncing on any who do not heed or cannot hear their warnings. Trains rumble. They create a lot of vibration. One knows quite in advance that a train is approaching.
    2. If you are deaf, you should not be playing around on the train tracks. If you are blind, you should not be driving. If you are anorexic, you should not go to a buffet.
    3. My prevailing theory is that she must have been really, really drunk.

  • I got the EFF internship in San Francisco! I'll be working in the Mission District for at least ten weeks this summer without pay. Yay! Here's hoping I get an Equal Justice Fellowship ($3250) from Georgetown for the non-profit work. Either way, it should be awesome.

  • Tim calls out our future President. I bet you're thinking Obama, right? Nope! It's Pierce Bush, displaying that fine Bush intellect we've all come to love. He says, "you know?" and "you know what I mean?" about 200 times.

  • You missed free coffee at Starbucks today. Yesterday was Steak And A Blowjob Day. If you were more on top of these things, your life would be significantly better.

  • Many of these Top Ten Most Annoying Alarm Clocks are hilarious, but all the cool ones are just concepts and not currently alienable. Also check out my friend Jacob's alarm-clock idea that will appeal to Econ geeks.

  • When I first looked at this article, I laughed very hard. I don't know, it just hit me right. The article, from Slate, is about What to do if your eyeball pops out of its socket.

Posted at March 14, 2006 1:03 PM | Comments (4)


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Congrats on the SF gig.
Did you see my post the other day about the deaf chick? I picture the train that hit her to look like the one I have posted.

Posted by: Jason at March 16, 2006 8:54 AM


OK, so the url didn't exactly take last time and I couldn't find an edit function. Had to correct it. Why else do you think I comment?

Posted by: Jason at March 16, 2006 8:56 AM


If it's only deaf people who shouldn't be walking near trains then I invite you to go walk in the same spot. Granted, it wasn't a smart choice for her to be walking there but it wouldn't be a smart choice for ANYONE to be walking that close to a train. And no, you don't automatically feel all trains vibrating the ground all the time. Gee, can you tell I'm a little annoyed by all the people laughing at this horrible situation and saying she's stupid simply because she's deaf?

Posted by: Lauren at March 16, 2006 1:58 PM


First of all, which Lauren is that? If you have a common name and aren't gonna provide a URL, then you've gotta be more specific about who you are.

Second, no one is saying she's stupid because she's deaf. People are saying she's stupid for walking near train tracks when she's deaf. I stand by my criticism of that decision. I have walked on train tracks before. I used to live very close to some train tracks. But I was never hit by a train. As of two summers ago when I was there, there were no maglev trains in Austin, Texas, which means that, yes, they rumble. A lot.

As I said, I think the most likely explanation is that she was really, really drunk.

Posted by: David Barzelay at March 16, 2006 2:13 PM

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