Is WSU eating its hat right now?

As I listened to the presidential debate last night, I couldn’t help but think back a year ago when WSU was a favorite for hosting the vice presidential debate in Spokane. Instead of being proud to host such an honor, WSU made an incredibly stupid move and said it was a presidential debate or nothing. For some reason, maybe it was the fact that we’re a school of 18,000, maybe it’s the fact that we don’t have a prestigious reputation, maybe it’s because WSU was biting the hand that wanted to feed it, but we lost it all, but don’t take my word for it, here’s what Tate told The Seattle Times:

“We had an offer to host the vice presidential debate, but we decided, with the focus we had right from the beginning of getting one of the three presidential debates, that we were just not in the position to accept the vice presidential debate.”

The last vice presidential debate was watched by more than 43 million viewers according to the same article.

Administrators shook it off saying no one would care about the vice presidential candidates anyway. But since Sarah Palin entered the picture, is WSU just kicking itself. She’s blogged, reported on and talked about more than McCain and though I disagree with her on almost every political platform I can’t deny that the girl’s got moxie.

If I was a betting (wo)man I would bet that the vice presidential debate is going to be watched by even more people this year than previous debates, if only for our desire to hear how Palin will dig her way out of not knowing anything about foreign policy.

So is WSU kicking itself? Cursing that charismatic Palin for breathing life into the second fiddle position. I hope so, that’s what they get for being greedy. That’s what they get for denying Eastern Washington a chance to shine in the political stage. That’s what they get for turning down a chance to bring some prestige and recognition to the school. Sure it’s not as sexy as a presidential debate, but it’s better than no debate.

I hope next time when someone throws them a life preserver they’ll take it instead of demanding for a rescue boat.

Baconated woot-off

I survived my first real woot-off these past couple days. I didn’t get much, all the cool stuff I wanted to get sold out almost instantly. I did get a nice printer, though, which is good because I’ve been printerless for almost two years. But today when I checked the status of the woot-off I found that it had ended and this was the last item:

Go Cougsars [sic]. For those who aren’t aware, this was an Evergreen inside joke. And to Dan: I think there’s still some bacon salt in the ME desk (yeah I took one and hid it, wanna fight about it?).

In other weird things I found from the internet: Here’s pictures of a woman who rummages for grocery lists then makes characters out of them and performs in grocery stores. Neat.