Let us be clear: This was the first time since the departure of Bear Bryant when the Cats had a legitimate opportunity to hire a coach who had proven himself at the highest levels of college football. For schools like Kentucky -- with a long history of poor football -- such opportunities are extremely rare. For the sake of all the devoted Kentucky fans who have spent decade after decade supporting one of the worst programs in all of college football, the University had to make this hire. Failing to do so, and throwing away such a wonderful chance, would be downright cruel.
But like most things in Kentucky, the UK football program is not run for the benefit of the people who it is supposed to serve. Instead, it is merely a plaything for a few wealthy and powerful folks who use it for their own convenience. And those people -- the same people who imposed Billy Clyde Gillespie upon UK's basketball fans just a few years ago -- apparently believed that Petrino did not meet their rigid moral standards. (We say apparently, because the folks who run things in Kentucky rarely explain why they do what they do.) So instead of hiring one of the best coaches in the country, they hired a guy who had never been a head coach at all. And then they, with their usual support from the local media, spent months trying to convince the Commonwealth that they had done the right thing. We were told that Mark Stoops had a great staff, a great new system, and one of the greatest recruiting classes in UK history. Today, on the first day of the new season, tens of thousands of UK fans drove down to Nashville, confidently expecting the New Cats to roll to victory against Western. After all, UK almost beat Western last year, when the Cats were 2-10. Surely the New Cats would have an easier time of it.
Meanwhile, Western Kentucky -- ecstatic with its opportunity -- had scooped up Petrino for itself. Yes, the Hilltoppers took some criticism from the press. Yes, some cynics insisted that Petrino would leave Bowling Green as soon as possible. But today, when the game started, Petrino and his staff were working for the Hilltoppers, not the Wildcats. And Petrino humiliated the Cats, beating them 35-26 in a game that was not as close as the score indicated.
Consider the following: every single player on Western's line-up would have preferred to take a scholarship from an SEC team like UK. No player on UK's team would voluntarily leave the SEC to play in the Sun Belt. So don't tell us that Western has good talent, or that they played hard, or that Joker left UK with no good players. UK lost this game because the Powers That Be in Lexington didn't want Bobby Petrino in their playpen. Period. UK lost this game -- as it has lost so many games in so many years -- because the Powers That Be are either indifferent to their responsibility to one of the best fan bases in the country, or are incapable of making decisions that will benefit those fans.
I would say that the UK Athletic Department got the result it deserved. But, of course, they got the result they wanted. Only the UK fans were hurt.
No wonder populism runs rampant in western Kentucky. No wonder so many of us grow up with so much skepticism of our supposed betters.
And hooray for the folks at Bowling Green who proved the importance of giving us different choices, so we can see how alternative policies would have played out. Good for them for making their fans happy. We can only hope that someday UK fans will have such people working for them. In the meantime, UK fans will have to wait for basketball season.
Imperial Teen has been around since 1994 putting out power pop. Influenced heavily by bands like Big Star, ELO, and New Order these guys have produced an album 18 years into their existence that shows a confident hand at producing power pop as well as a lot of energy. 
Here is the sens I have of Leann Rimes. At 13 she puts out a hit single. At 17 she appeared as herself in the movie Coyote Ugly, which I have never seen, and then that's pretty much it.
If you were 20 in 2012 when this album came out you would probably find this album very new and refreshing. If you were 40 in 2012 and you heard this album without any context you would assume it was some 90's artist that you had just never heard before. While so many female artists are borrowing heavily from the 50's and 60's and early 80's, Lana Del Rey does sound refreshingly different as she borrows heavily from 90's. 
This is one of those album reviews that is very easy to write. Why, well because Leonard Cohen is Leonard Cohen. If you like him you like him if you don't you don't. It's pretty much that simple. For his fans they'll be happy with this album. 
The name is familiar to me but that's about it. These guys have been around since the late 80's hitting their peak in the 90's and breaking up in 2004. The reformed in 2012 and put out this album and have since followed it up with three more. Yes that's right they put out four albums in a year. That should give you some since of their music. Inspired by 60's prog rock and punk bands like The Ramones, these guys are known for cranking out short, hook heavy garage rock.