Rants

The super-spoof Meet the Spartans narrowly beat out the old Rambo franchise at the box office this past weekend, proving that old mercenaries don’t die, they just make remakes.

Tickets for next week’s Super Bowl are now ranging from $2,450 to $19,446, putting it just out of reach of the average college student.

Raves

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met Sunday in Jerusalem to talk about the deteriorating situation in the Gaza Strip.

Ill. Sen. Barack Obama won 50 percent of the 18- to 29-year-old youth vote in last Saturday’s Democratic primary.