Memes and Whatnot

 While writing satire, it's important to take a bold stance on the matter at hand. Obviously, it's impossible for every reader to understand the point being made, writing in a bold and obvious fashion increase the likelihood that the reader will understand. Satirical writing thrives on being quirky and non-obvious. It's essential that the topic and style of writing isn't one that is overused and cliche.  In hindsight, I should've written the preceding paragraph in a manner that encompasses more than just writing, but I'm too lazy to fix it so we're moving on to Banksy's artwork. The piece was the one of the Napalm Girl.  It's important to know the context to this picture, so here's the original photo of the Vietnam War:  In the original photo, the first thing that caught my attention was the Mickey Mouse and the Ronald McDonald. Both of these were considered to be staples of the American lifestyle. What's interesting about the Vietnam War was...

Washington DC - In between his last coughs , McConnell tells his attending doctor to ensure that his death is not attributed to the coronavirus. Dr. Pei states that McConnell expressed a desire to maintain his image that the coronavirus is not in fact real but an institution created by the left to subvert the power of the right. She said "His pupils dilated so large I could see the empty cavity inside his skull. This happened when he remembered that the senate would now be able to pass the coronavirus relief bill." In an interview with NBC two weeks ago, McConnell explores the linguist aspect of political dichotomies. He stated, "There's a reason the right is called the right; it's because it's right. Checkmate libt*rds."  His last words were "Tell the left it was tuberculosis, asthma, high cholesterol, inflated ego, stupidity — but goddamnit please don't say it was the coronavirus. I refuse to die of coronavirus and become another statistic....

  My blog is quite aptly named: a Confused Political Compass. For those of you who don’t know, the image on the right is what a political compass looks like. I’d like to point out the false dichotomy that exists in our world. People get labeled either Republican or Democratic, conservative or liberal, authoritarian or libertarian, communist or capitalist, and so on and so forth. The political compass, however, does a good job of highlighting that these stances are more nuanced than two mutually exclusive ideas. I concede that while it's possible that two people lie in complete opposition of each other in the context of the political compass, say for example someone falls extremely far economic-left and extremely libertarian versus a far economic-right and extremely authoritarian. But again, there’s more nuance to this than those 4 categories. Add in for example liberalism and conservatism, now you’ve got a political cube. Keep adding more and more categorizations and you’re left wi...

I wanted to spend this week's blogpost doing something other than taking a dump on Trump, but the events that have transpired since my last blogpost have altered my plans.  First of all, I completely condemn any of you radical woke liberals who wish death upon Trump. You truly are the scum of the earth. No one — not even Trump — deserves death. Have some compassion people, he too is a person after all.  Now, back to your scheduled dump on Trump. It takes a lot of hubris, my buzzword this week, to say  Don't be afraid of Covid .  I'll admit, I'm not a doctor so take what I say with a grain of salt (as should everything you see on the internet). Take a look at these videos, you tell me, how unafraid of Covid does he seem to you? Trump appears to be wincing in pain while he breathes pic.twitter.com/YKhGhu0VN0 — Brennan Murphy (@brenonade) October 5, 2020 Okay Donald, you're souped up on a bunch of drugs, including dexamethasone. Dexamethasone comes with a laundry ...

I wanted to bring this up during our Harkness discussion on Thursday, but I didn't get the chance to. On page 43, Santiago says "I'm like everyone else — I see the world in terms of what I would like to see happen, not what actually does." I bring this up to highlight how self-aware he is of how idealistic he is. In a sense, it seems that he's being realistic with his perception of the world. I think the outlook that he has is the best of both worlds. It's important, no doubt, to stay positive with our perception, but its important to be cognizant of our biases. Even more so than our outlook on the world, knowing our biases is important with our introspection.  This brings us to my topic of this blog post: Donald Trump. I used to believe that Donald Trump was an intelligent man — a grandmaster of 4d chess — who would lie and say stupid things to play the masses and make more money. In some sense, that's true. Take for example the Woodward tapes where Trump...

Interacting with people has become commonplace; you can't go an hour without exchanging pleasantries. Considering that these pleasantries have been around for so long, one would rightly assume that they have more purpose than simply being a mode to express politeness. Polite speech has developed to become a way to make people more receptive to what the speaker has to say. Polite speech has no intrinsic value, but the value of it comes from what the speaker would like to accomplish. Take for example the setting of a school - it would be considered rude to not use polite speech when addressing a superior. Looking at the most common use of polite speech is simply how we address our teachers; we address them with prefixes that demonstrate respect such as "Mr." or "Ms." Without these titles, a teacher would simply scoff at whatever else one has to say. Not only are titles the only way to demonstrate respect, we often use the subjunctive as a way of demonstrating ...

Science in the modern world has been kept in check by numerous organizations who exist for the sole reason of ensuring the progression of science does not come at the cost of human life. This topic is extremely relevant today due to the increasing number of cases of the Coronavirus. One would hope that as the number of cases exponentially increases, so does the rate at which the vaccine for this disease is to be created - alas that is not the case. Technically speaking, me and you both have the cure for the Coronavirus; there are numerous house hold goods that could rid us of this disease. To name a few: drinking bleach, putting your finger into an electrical socket, or even, if you're daring enough, messing with the furnace in your basement. However, it doesn't take much thought to see that these all have a rather important flaw to them: we end up dying too. That is why we have organizations like the CDC to make sure things like that don't get passed on as a "vaccin...