Showing posts with label current events. Show all posts
Showing posts with label current events. Show all posts

Thursday, July 12, 2007

Too bad she didn't have a blog, too.


Dear College Students, especially Miss [Your State Here] Hopefuls:

Don't post pictures of people biting your boob on Facebook. They will come back to haunt you.

Not that it actually MATTERS, because how many people have embarrassing pictures of themselves on the Internet? It shouldn't be shocking that most people in their early twenties get drunk every now and then and take incriminating photos of their debauchery. Should it really matter? Not really, because it's just stupid, silly behavior, as long as no one is hurt and laws aren't broken.

I think our parents should just be glad they lived in a time before the Internet and digital photography.


Related: Miss New Jersey Is Physically, Not Ethically, Quite Flexible [Gawker]

Thursday, March 01, 2007

Angelina explains it all.

Megan sent me the link to Angelina Jolie's editorial in the Washington Post yesterday, which I sent to Gawker (the associate editor responded, "Love her bio: 'The writer is a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees.'"). (It should say something that my Outlook inbox is filled with unanswered emails from my colleagues, yet I'm going out of my way to tip Gawker Media.) Anyway, I didn't read the article, but it reminds me that I have to admit that I have no idea what's going on in Darfur. I know it's bad, but I don't know how bad. I guess I could read the Wikipedia article or something, but wouldn't it be a lot easier if there was just a movie about it? What's George Clooney waiting for anyway? Is it going to take ten years like it did with Rwanda? There's absolutely no excuse, considering this movie exists, and that hasn't even happened yet.

I suppose I could just read Angelina Jolie's "article," but I find it somewhat degrading when a woman who five years ago wore a vial of her husband's blood around her neck tries to teach me how the world works.