Category Archives: General
A Damned Shame
Hunter S. Thompson from the best cover letter ever: As far as I’m concerned, it’s a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy, and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity. If this is what […]
Memorial Day
I have mixed feelings about claims we should support the soldiers no matter what the politics of a war. I recognize that there are pragmatic as well as humanitarian reasons for doing so. When they kill they do so at the behest of the collective; they do so not as individuals but as America. I […]
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Jerky Merging
I‘m done with school for the year, and so, also with my exciting four-hour commute up to Connecticut. Especially after the thaw, that already painful commute got further complicated with lane closures as they tried to repair the damage of Father Winter. When a lane closes, the remaining lanes move slower. It’s that simple. People […]
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