Waiting ’til June: Dude, where’s my internship?
For as long as I can remember, my defense mechanism in the face of widespread disaster has been willful ignorance. I avoid any news that risks bringing me up to speed on the actual situation.
When the 9/11 attacks occurred, I avoided TV until 2002. When I finally forced myself to watch an HBO documentary showing [...]
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Senior class gift with a side of socialization
A while back, I theorized that the inbred socializing of Ivy League graduates might lead to a reliable revenue stream for top schools, once alumni hit their golden years. Now, I will examine the converse: Establishing pride among alumni for generating a revenue stream might ensure their later socialization. I will make my subject plain: [...]
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Beneath crass words, refreshing self-awareness
In an interview with Rob Tannenbaum in the February issue of Playboy, John Mayer gave everyone who loves to demonize him something to feed on when he volunteered a comment about his “hood pass.”
To quote Mayer: “I come on very strong…That’s why black people love me…Someone asked me the other day, ‘What does it [...]
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Arrest me, I doodled? Little tolerance for ‘Zero-Tolerance’
Last month, 12-year-old Alexa Gonzalez was arrested by school safety officers and led out of her Queens, N.Y., middle school in handcuffs. Gonzalez was escorted to a nearby police station, where she was held in custody for several hours until finally being released to her mother, Moraima Comacho.
The 12-year-old’s offense? Gonzalez was caught by her [...]
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