Quickhits for Jan. 8, 2015

Hate, hate, hate

We hate the Dallas Cowboys: Tony Romo is a Duke fan. They only won their recent playoff game after an egregious picked-up flag, and now team owner Jerry Jones has compared New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to Nelson Mandela.  The most frustrating thing about all of this is that the Cowboys are good, too. 

Best semester

Hot take, coming right up: Spring semester is the best semester. The weather gets continually better rather than worse, and all of the nightmares associated with new living arrangements in the fall have probably been smoothed over. Plus, your resolutions to be more scholarly give your grades a helpful early boost.

Insult to injury

We hate nothing more than trudging up the hill after a heartbreaking UNC loss in the Smith Center, and it doesn’t help that Duke’s basketball team is — and there’s no less offensive way to say this — really, really good this year. We’re not sure what sort of rat elixir Coach K’s concocted, but whatever it is, it’s working. 

Derby Kilauter

Kirby Delauter! Frederick, Md. councilman Kirby Delauter recently made a Facebook post chastising a journalist for printing his name — again, Kirby Delauter is an elected public official — without his permission. This is already the best and most satisfying meme of 2015, and it’s hard to see anything topping it.

Times of want

It sucks, but it happens to us every semester: People get back to school and kind of forget the DTH exists. As a result, our early semester letters and Kvetches tend to be on the scarce side. Please, don’t let that happen this semester. It’s a new year! Print journalism can be cool again! Anything is possible! 

Crowded gyms

We appreciate people getting their health on in the new year. Heart disease and other afflictions associated with a sedentary lifestyle are among the leading causes of death in the United States. All that aside, it doesn’t look like we’ll be able to find a free squat rack until about Feburary, and we’re a little pissed.