BINGO

Roissy comes correct, as always:

“Feminism is, right down to its withered, cunty heart, a grotesque ideology mounted on a dais of lies. My goal is to mock it so ruthlessly that its practitioners and sympathizers, all of them, find it ever more difficult to pronounce in public life that they are feminists, to drive the true believers so far underground that only their raspy-throated, dusty-muffed sisters-in-arms are willing to entertain their insipid nostrums. This is total war, and in total war where the weapons are words, the goal is utter destruction through social ostracism. The icy wasteland of discredited ideologues and crackpots mumbling self-medicating catchphrases and hitting themselves in the forehead is feminism’s inevitable destination.”

How many feminists does it take to change a light bulb?

12.

One to screw it in,
one to excoriate men for creating the need for illumination,
one to blame men for inventing such a faulty means of illumination,
one to suggest the whole “screwing” bit to be too “rape-like”,
one to deconstruct the lightbulb itself as being phallic,
one to blame men for not changing the bulb,
one to blame men for trying to change the bulb instead of letting a woman do it,
one to blame men for creating a society that discourages women from changing light bulbs,
one to blame men for creating a society where women change too many light bulbs,
one to advocate that lightbulb changers should have wage parity with electricians,
one to alert the media that women are now “out-lightbulbing” men,
and one to just sit there taking pictures for her blog for photo-evidence that men are unnecessary.

Via: Medical Billing And Coding

Suck It

Yeah I haven’t updated in your entire life. Now that this is no longer an internet depository for my Red&Black columns I haven’t felt the need to post every week. And I thoroughly disengaged from politics and considering I now live in DC… I’m definitely not gonna start that backup.

Who knows what direction I’ll take this. Music will always get posts when I feel compelled. Sports, girls, psychology, whatever.

Stay tuned, or don’t.

¡Mayday! – Pass the 45

This band needs much more press. They’ve been around a few years; from Miami.

Boondocks FTW!!

Props to Aaron McGruder and will.i.am

Peace Out W&J, It’s Been Real

Today marks sixteen days until I graduate from Washington & Jefferson College. For the past month or so I have been holding an internal debate over whether I would mark the occasion for this, my last column in the pages of the Red&Black.

The thing is while I never planned on actually trying to write professionally, the last two years have given me a pulpit to educate, observe, rant, and proselytize in a semi-professional setting. I have enjoyed it. Once I settle in big Washington, a city I have reviled and ridiculed for the majority of my fifty columns, no doubt I will seek out a part-time gig opining in a rag that will have me.

I can thank the Red&Black for providing an introductory outlet that has sparked a passion for expressing my curmudgeonly behavior.

I have been under no illusions of grandeur during this stint; I know I have a small dedicated group of readers but otherwise my words have gone largely ignored. How I feel about that is a subject for another day when I have a few beers in me and there are no children within earshot.

My biggest regret however has been my inability to inspire a single piece of hate mail or at the very least a strongly worded disagreement. Granted, I devoted my efforts extensively to economics and we all know that stuff is boring! But I enjoy intellectually sparring with those who think I am an idiot; it is good for the soul. I just wish those on campus who wanted to punch me in the head spoke up and said so.

Liberal education when done right has merit. I have taken advantage of opportunities allowing me to draw, paint, and sculpt in Olin, see plays, take opera field trips, write about Shakespeare and the puritans in 1700′s Massachusetts, give presentations on SEC annual reports and Snuggies, and have a chemistry lab class about food and cooking. I doubt I could have touched as many bases elsewhere.

The above is not without a couple caveats however, as should be expected coming from such a paragon of honesty as myself.

Unfortunately W&J is very paternalistic and refuses to let anyone think or act independently, which is the complete antithesis of a liberal education. They hold our hands about everything and in terms of life and experience I almost feel like I have taken a step back since high school graduation. I had an incredible amount of independence and responsibility at the age of eighteen yet I do not feel like I have grown from there. At best I have had my progress on pause. This place is very stagnant and that is the biggest flaw in my opinion.

Who knows? I may feel differently if I had chosen a less grounded major. Since the accounting program develops a fairly tangible skill set, I definitely should have chosen a far cheaper school and saved myself upwards of $70k in debt. Realistically I could have learned most of the material in high school and started contributing productively to society from the jump. The more esoteric principles and standards could be learned on the job as my reliability was demonstrated to an employer.

That said I completely fault myself for the dissatisfaction with my choice of college. I simply did not take the process seriously enough in high school and I cannot in good conscience be outwardly upset. Live and learn is the philosophy.

So seniors, good luck with graduate, law, and medical school if that is the path. I tip my cap for willingly enduring more school and hopefully there are no diversions along the way. Those entering the workforce: stack that paper and hustle hard, make me proud. Anyone who may be entering military duty: Godspeed, stay safe, and many thanks for the service. Lastly, good luck to anyone still putting plans into place; I have my fingers crossed things settle soon and some peace of mind is attained.

Like Kanye put it on Graduation, no goodbyes, just goodnight.

Bird Peterson – Drankenstein

HIDE THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN.

This just might be a perfect mixtape. Bird Peterson combined two of my favorite (and apparently his) types of music: dirty south rap and trance. Yes, you read correctly and this mix BANGS.

From Mad Decent:

It’s 15 tracks that are all southern hip hop remixes, made from some of Bird’s favorite trance samples – but be warned – these aren’t meant for ironic yucks – this is just some damn good remix production with a solid theme- go Bird!

And Bird himself:

It’s based on an idea I started working with when i created the Dope Boys remix for Diplo’s recent Gucci Mane mix. This is my amalgamation of two trends i’ve always loved: the dirty south and the use of trance synths in current rap. Here I have taken 15 or so of my favorite southern rap songs and 15 or so of my favorite trance synth lines to create something thats not corny or funny, it’s simply the motherfudgin’ jam!

Get it here: DOWNLOAD

My Brush With Death: KFC’s Double Down

“It’s got two of everything! Two pieces of cheese, two pieces of bacon, and two pieces of chicken. So long bun.”

So goes KFC’s commercial for the new “Double Down” sandwich, a gastronomical feat of unmatched proportions. Chris Dazen, Red&Black Sports Editor, and I threw caution to the wind, flipped the bird to reaching AARP eligibility and tried the aforementioned wonder this past Sunday.

The sacrifices I make in the name of journalistic excellence are unparalleled.

Dazen ordered the breaded Original Recipe® while I went for the grilled version. According to KFC’s website, the former is 540 calories and has 32 grams of fat. The latter is slightly healthier, coming in at 460 calories and only 23 grams of fat. Sodium on the other hand is higher by 50 milligrams in the grilled sandwich.

The preceding information is nice and all, but irrelevant in my opinion. I do not care if health advocates are up in arms, this sandwich is good. The likelihood that I eat another before 2011 is slim however.

Team Blue Shitting on Constitution. In Other News: Water is Wet, Sky is Up, Elvis Still Dead

Direct from the New York Times last week:

The Obama administration has taken the extraordinary step of authorizing the targeted killing of an American citizen, the radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who is believed to have shifted from encouraging attacks on the United States to directly participating in them, intelligence and counterterrorism officials said [last] Tuesday.

Mr. Awlaki has been the focus of intense scrutiny since he was linked to Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people at Fort Hood, Tex., in November, and then to Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian man charged with trying to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Dec. 25.

As a general principle, international law permits the use of lethal force against individuals and groups that pose an imminent threat to a country, and officials said that was the standard used in adding names to the list of targets. In addition, Congress approved the use of military force against Al Qaeda after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. People on the target list are considered to be military enemies of the United States and therefore not subject to the ban on political assassination first approved by President Gerald R. Ford.

Most readers will be hearing about this for the first time because there has largely been a deafening silence in the news. But credit must be given where it is due. Keith Olbermann, usually an Obama loyalist, has harshly criticized the president for ordering the assassination without trial and has been the only relatively mainstream media personality to even breach the subject.