Bad news. During a "study break", I was perusing The Technodrome, a website devoted to that classic cartoon series of the 80s and 90s, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The site's not the bad part; I'm glad to see a site devoted to an old favorite show going strong after 10 years, so it's headed for the sidebar. But there was some old news I'd missed posted there- Nickelodeon has acquired the rights to TMNT and is planning a new series and movie. That wouldn't be bad either, except that, like everything these days, they'll be in CGI, one of the numerous, though onerous, banes of my existence. Why adulterate the fine series, which lives so happily in the memories of all us Babies of the 80s?

Why, for that matter, was I thinking about the series at the library, you might ask? As my mind wandered whilst writing a paper (which I later finished), I was giggling about one of the sillier associations I've subconsciously made in my mind. For some reason, Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona (left) reminds me of Bebop (right) from TMNT. Hmm. What do the two gentlemen have in common? Kyl is certainly the more genteel of the pair. Well, Kyl and Bebop are both steadfastly against gun control!