Big Ups & Backhands: Feb. 2-Feb. 5

by Kaimin Staff | February 5, 2010 | Montana Kaimin

Do you feel the need? The need for speed? BU&BH does, especially since we got our new Toyota. It’s either speed or crash into a storefront. So yeah, it’s a need.

All-knowing Backhands to Google for reportedly working with the National Security Agency. Seems pretty fishy to us. We’ll be sure to look into — wait. Our Gmail’s just been disabled and a picture of us showering taken via street view has been posted on the Google News page. Never mind, guys! The cloud knows all!

Ruddy Big Ups to Eastern Washington University for changing the color of its playing field to red. Washington-Grizzly Stadium’s field is red sometimes, too … when we stain it with the blood of the Bobcats! Roooowwwwrrrrr! Go Griz!

Backhands to Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz for announcing his resignation with a Twitter post. Class things up a bit, Schwartz. Etiquette dictates that you post a vague, brooding status on your Facebook page, and then when someone asks you what’s wrong, you reply: “Didn’t you hear? I’m resigning as CEO of Sun Systems! :(”

Blue and eight-feet-tall Big Ups to James Cameron’s “Avatar” for beating his other huge movie, “Titanic,” as the biggest money-maker at the movies ever. It’s a great accomplishment for Cameron, and a nice freebie to headline writers who can’t resist the “Avatar sinks Titanic” option.

Weird-hair Backhands to Illinois prosecutors for pressing fresh charges against Rod Blagojevich in order to speed up the start of his upcoming trial. Look, if Blago’s in court, how’s he going to get his own VH1 reality show? Anything that delays the man’s rise to reality show superstardom is not OK with us.

Over-hyped Big Ups to the Super Bowl. It should be a good one this year. There’s a pro-life ad, some controversy about a gay-dating-site ad that got pulled at the last minute and (one hopes) a wardrobe malfunction of some kind. We also hear tell that a football match of sorts may take place. Shoot, the pre-pre-game special is starting. We better go.

Thanks for coming along for the ride. The good folks at Toyota let us trade our faulty Camry for a new Prius. No gas pedal problems there, and surely they wouldn’t let lightning strike twice and severely overlook a problem with another key safety feature like brakes would they? They would? OK, storefront it is.

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