The Magical Hanukkahtime Section Variety Hour is an eight-day festival of light reading. BC Magazine's sports editor spreads his Gentile love in every other section but his own. And because it's Hanukkah, the gifts of are substandard quality: in this case, it's an article. Today: BC Politics.

They say college is all about experimentation. A four-year span of errs — or in some cases, eight — will never carry over into the real world. Study well and play hard. That's what the seniors tell you during orientation.

Shyeah. How foolish I was to believe them.

As fresh meat at Bowling Green State University, I joined up with the campus newspaper with a starry-eyed dream to write a humor column and lampoon simple, universal things like early morning fire drills and high-priced mandatory meal plans. But after two years of weekly, punchy articles, something was missing (besides the jokes.) I wanted to do more.

Eventually I climbed the ranks to editor of the editorial page. My job was to sift through letters and guest columns regarding campus-related topics and co-ed age-specific issues. At least that's what the job description entailed.

Then came the fall semester of 2004. Presidential election time.

The letters and guest columns became more hardcore. Rants about do-nothing Dimwittocraps and hate-filled RepuglilKKKan'ts began filling the inbox, and little else. I had no choice. I had to print it. You'd think running a balance of each side's view would keep the paper's editorial view — and my sanity — in the middle. You'd think. But as November 2, the addiction took a cruel turn.

I came home from the newsroom after being called a partisan shill by a reader because I didn't print his partisan letter to the editor, and my roommate and her boyfriend were watching Outfoxed. I was in the kitchen cooking up the Ramen, and then I stopped. I turned.

"Um ... did that movie just say that President Bush was elected in 2000 because of Fox News?"

I had never seen Outfoxed, nor had I ever heard the claim.

"Yeah, that's what they're saying. You should really see this movie, it's amazing how they--"

"BULLSHIT. Just ... BULLSHIT!"

A spirited discussion on cable news then began 'twixt the three of us, where they cited instances pointed out in the movie, while my only evidence — and this isn't verbatim, although it might as well have been — went something like: "I work really hard on the Opinion page and there's no such thing as media bias and you guys are stupid."