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Will Work for Food, Whether They Like It or Not
You just won the NCAA Division I men’s basketball national championship. What are you going to do next? Beg for food, apparently. At least that’s what University of Connecticut star player and guy-with-two-last-names Shabazz Napier seemed to feel like doing when he told reporters that he sometimes goes to bed hungry, left unsatisfied by the […]
Christopher Columbus Superfraud
The desire to explore is in us all. Whether it’s hiking further down a trail, trying a new restaurant, or strange pussy we all have a desire to explore new things (strange pussy excluded for heterosexual women). But how strong is this desire in reality? It has been romanticized for sure, and I do it […]
Shaping Up
Nationalism can be an at times trivial thing. Some Americans tout our freedom, which I get, but others tout our football, which I don’t. It gets flipped around very easily. Europeans will tout their football in spite of ours. In reality, football doesn’t matter and shouldn’t have an impact on your sense of nationalism. But […]
Don’t Stop Beliebing, Hold Onto That Feeling
Fandom. It’s not logical. Millions of Justin Bieber fans have come out in support of the pop star after his arrest for drunk driving, resisting arrest, and driving without a valid driver’s license. Why come out in blind support of him after he did something so horrible? I know most of his fans are young […]
Assassin Nation
Martin Luther King’s dream didn’t die with him, but America’s long history of social and political figures being assassinated did. It’s so easy to ignore for someone my age, 29, just how commonplace assassinations were. There was JFK, MLK, and Robert Kennedy in the 60s. There was at least one attempt on Ford’s life in […]
Bridge on the River Deny
I’m all fired up about this New Jersey thing. Unlike most people, assuming that Christie really knew nothing about it, I’m willing to largely give him a pass on this. It seems like the type of person who is trying to villianize him for this was just lying in wait to villianize him over something […]
Rob Ford Says the Darndest Things
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford filed for reelection today, the election being slated for this October. As a refresher course, this is the man who admitted having an alcohol problem and admitted using crack cocaine after a photo or video circulated of him using it. I’m sure politicians have had drug problems before, but it also […]
The Tradition of Olympic Violence
Recently there have been two bombings in the Russian city of Volgograd, which is significant because it is a transportation hub near Sochi, the Olympic host city in 2014. Because some people are shocked and appalled it’s easy to forget how routine incidents like this around the Olympics really are. I wasn’t alive for this […]
Pregnancy Creates the Best Moral Dilemmas
We have a brain dead woman being kept alive by life support. She clearly stated to her husband that she did not want to be kept alive by machines. The solution is simple enough, right? You remove her from life support and mourn the dead. Plot twist! The woman is pregnant. And in the great […]
Duck Dynasty Keeping It “Real”
Phil Robertson is real. He recently did a real interview with GQ. In that interview, he said described homosexuality as a sin and expressed a preference for “a vagina” over “a man’s anus.” That opinion is pretty heavy intellectually stuff and is, as far as anyone can tell, real. As a result of those comments, […]
Capital Fools 