Archive For The “sometimes my university is such a fucking clown college” Category
A few hours ago, I sent the following email to Temple News. I apologize if I’ve gotten any details wrong (I’m kicking myself for neglecting to mention health/excessive radiation as a reason to opt out). Honestly, I was mainly trying to provide background info and context while steering them in the direction of George and [...]
Enjoy! To kick things off, go visit Lauren at Oh Dear Lauren.com, a collection of open letters she’s written to various individuals, entities, random objects, and body parts. Arkansas Fire Chief Don Payne launches into a long overdue tirade about police abuse of power while fighting multiple traffic tickets in court. The police response? Shooting [...]
Apparently Temple University (my clown college) is under attack by four self-righteous jackasses (John Taylor – R, Denny O’Brien – R, Larry Farnese – D, and Mike Stack – D) who are pissed off because Temple decided to shut down an ill-performing hospital in lower NE Philly (specifically Kensington). Fueled by this anger, they have [...]
I am working on my second 7-10 page paper that is due this afternoon. I powered through the first one all night and finally took a nap with Libertarian Boyfriend somewhere around 6 am. I say “nap” because it’s now 9 am and I have been awake for about an hour. I am not a [...]
I have such a difficult time getting started on papers. This is ten times more true when the assignment is simply an idiotic waste of my time. This is even fifteen times more true when the idiotic waste of my time is for a professor who can’t give an organized lecture to save his life, [...]
As promised, here is the continuation of the Neo-con bourgoise hell. So, we came to the check-in table for the event and signed in. We made it through the creepiest parts of the event – or so we thought. Upon entering the room, we noticed that it was a sea of white faces. Well, with [...]
As I think I’ve mentioned before, Libertarian Boyfriend and I have a class together. (This class is taught by a half-braindead, war mongering Neo-con “historian” who probably thinks that both Full Metal Jacket and Platoon made the same pro-Vietnam War argument and who couldn’t give you a good, concise, historically and factually accurate history of [...]
The dramatic retelling is coming soon. This is what is being emailed to my TA: Drunkenatheist American Military Culture February 10, 2009 Extra credit assignment #1 – Abraham Lincoln: Commander-in-Chief Last night, I attended the presentation Abraham Lincoln: Commander-in-Chief, hosted by the Foreign Policy Research Institute at the Union League. While I realize the focus [...]
