Rooster in Review: No, not that Miami!
A Vietnamese student is surprised that there are no beaches at Animal Torture University.
I covered college football in my previous life, so I’m attuned to the difference between the University of Miami and Miami University.
One is a sun-soaked campus with a decent football team along the beach. The other is an animal torture syndicate in the backwoods of Ohio.
It’s a lesson that a Vietnamese student reportedly learned the hardway!
From Aime Pearcy of businessinsider.com:
When Valerie Do, 19, applied to study at Miami University in 2021, she was excited by the prospect of spending her days lounging on beaches in the sun in Florida, surrounded by palm trees like she'd seen in the movies.
As an international student living in Vietnam, she couldn't visit the university before applying. So when the university sent her an acceptance letter welcoming her to Ohio, Do felt confused.
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Miami University in Ohio was founded in 1809 and named after the Great Miami River in southwestern Ohio. The name of the city of Miami, Florida, is derived from the Native Tequesta name "Mayaimi," believed to mean "big water" or "sweet water," according to Encyclopedia Britannica.
"I realized there are no beaches; it's just a cornfield in the middle of nowhere in the Midwest of America," Do told Insider.
This reminds me of my old Swahili teacher at Ohio State. He said when he accepted the job, he found a place to live in Mount Gilead because he assumed that the local mountain would remind him of his home in Kenya.
Needless to say, he didn’t last there long before moving closer to campus!
This week in Ohio Man…
I’ve lived next to train tracks in my life. It’s annoying at first but honestly, it’s human nature to get used to the sounds and vibrations that accompany them. Besides, our country’s economy would collapse without them!
But one Ohio Man is learning a hard lesson about the penalties of trying to mess with trains. Namely, that it’s a federal crime.
From Jack Shea of wkbn.com:
CLEVELAND (WJW) — A Cleveland man is facing federal terrorism related charges, for allegedly trying to cause trains in the city to derail, by sabotaging the tracks.
According to a complaint filed in federal court, FBI agents contend that 43-year-old Joseph Findley attempted to cause derailments by freight and Amtrak passenger trains, by jamming various metal objects into the tracks and rail switches, which allow trains to move from one track to another.
Findley lives with his parents near the CSX tracks in Cleveland’s St. Clair-Superior neighborhood.
His mother, Mary Findley, told FOX 8 Monday, “he’s never been a bad kid, never, he was always good. He’s no terrorist, somebody’s making that up.”
Probably a bad sign when you’re 43 years old and your mom is describing you as a “kid” to local media.
This week on The Rooster
Just because it’s normal, doesn’t make it legal. Thoughts on disgraced Cincinnati politician P.G. Sittenfeld hours before a judge sentenced him to 16 months in prison.
The Bust Up List: Back to the Swamphouse Edition. The most flagrant offenders on my radar as the Ohio Legislature reconvenes to the detriment of anyone making less than $250K a year.
When the content gods smile upon you. My encounter with John Kasich, Josh Mandel accused of being a deadbeat dad, Brian Stewart owns the Special Election debacle, and more!
THOSE WMDs. How Netflix crushed the Latin American password black market… A lab test that experts liken to a witch trial is helping send women to prison for murder… How Millennials killed the guest room… Parents say they’re struggling with their own mental health amid growing youth mental health crisis… What do we owe the octopus?