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As a straight, white, economically well-off man, I am planning to make a reassuring video for all the teenagers like me who may be struggling through hardships like piano lessons and AP Calculus. It will be titled as above. (To see a more worthwhile message, you might look hereP.S. Not inspiring? Ok then, how about: "It was bad? I'm sorry about ( Read more... )

An Internet search reveals that I'm not the first person to write a song parody with this general idea, but I thought of it myself as far as I know, and anyway the lyrics are original ( Read more... )

Write a song parody of Rebecca Black's Friday based on UN Security Council Resolution 1973. One scene should feature Barack Obama sitting in the back of a convertible, between David Cameron and Nicolas Sarkozy, singing:

I got this, you got this
My friend is by my right
I got this, you got this
Now you know it

Those lyrics, obviously, don't need ( Read more... )

Keeping track of the litigation and voting around gay marriage in California has been confusing for a while now, what with the negatives and double negatives, propositions and counter-propositions, votes yes and no. For example, yesterday I found an actual page that said, "Say No to Yes on 8: Oppose SB 5." So for confused but right-minded ( Read more... )

Hey remember that game where you try to put in 2 words and get exactly one google hit? It's much more difficult than it was 10 years ago! Oenophile tachyon, for example, gets 549 hits. Maybe I should try some misspellings?

1. That most of our men and women in uniform know what it means for the military to be apolitical; and

2. Rolling Stone.

L.A. Times: Probe to examine whether U.S. 'psy-ops' soldiers tried to manipulate senators

"Here's a lesson of history: Do not allow Democrats anywhere near foreign policy. Not even to keep them away from domestic policy. It's a mistake to ask those who don't even like democracy to defend it." - Ann Coulter


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If you are reading this, you are almost certainly privileged enough that nobody owes you any lucky breaks. Earn what you want, or don't. No excuses.

The same goes double for me, of course.

1. The ATLAS Project was our last best hope for peace. It failed. But . . .

2. Since the dawn of time, Man has . . .

Oh yeah, FYI, I am totally graduating this semester. For real.