Why You Should/Shouldn’t Go To College, Part Two: General Education Courses Are A Waste of Time (Updated)

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I maintain that a person should have a certain level of knowledge about everything, even subjects you don’t care about.

Violence and Contemporary Fiction

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Started a discussion about the role of violence in writing.

Levels of Stress

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There are levels.

Google, Twitter, Privacy, Censorship and Why Corporations Really Don’t care About You

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Who’s Internet? Our Internet! Who’s Google! Their Google. And they can do anything they want with it.

Martin Luther King Day and Me

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I’ve written a ton about class and race over the past year. It’s important for us to remember something today at the end of Martin Luther King Day. Some people believe it’s not a big deal to have a day off today.  But, I mean, we are doing it for a black civil rights leader. … Read more

The Occupation Will Be Televised, Part 2: I was Wrong

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This isn’t something that is going to start and then stop, a small hiccup that will end when the right breathing is found. This is the direct result of a broken system, like a busted engine, the oil leaking out.

Who Picks up Deer Shit?

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Surprisingly, this is an existential l question.

Why Anthony Weiner Matters.

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The spectacle of being an American.

Again. A short story by Jarvis Slacks

I’ve only felt that once and I’m so afraid, at night, I’m afraid I’ll never feel it again. At night, I think about how I’ll never feel it again and I feel so sad.

Utility

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You can’t force us to use your product. You have to make us want to use it.

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