The credo “Fake it Till You Make it” isn’t very useful in Sexaholics Anonymous.
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My advice to kids worried about the competitiveness of college admissions: apply to Penn State.
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Is the opposite of a “little bit” a “lotta bunch”?
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According to pseudo-athletes, you can effectively corral your stomach fat into ab-like corpuscles! Yay, America!
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More people should embrace the central pillar of humanistic philosophy. I believe Socrates put it best: “It’s better to be a sucker than an asshole.”
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The art world got a little ahead of itself when it started labeling pieces as “post-modern”.
Ambrose Bierce Would Approve
Academic (noun): someone who spins theories about our existence and society by withdrawing from it.
Knowledge is a Game of Telephone
Anyone who has traced the powerful evolution of a specious rumor must doubt the supremacy of any one set of beliefs.
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I would argue that the Chinese finger trap is a quintessentially female weapon; rather than penetrating its victims, it engulfs them.
Just Another Brick in the Wall
Colleges, rather than being places of honest intellectual inquiry, increasingly look like overpriced factories pumping out cogs for the oligarchy. Why are some of the best minds of my generation creating complex derivatives for financial markets, manufacturing need for useless products or cooking up algorithms for SEO? The worst part is that where the money flows reflects our distorted priorities. We reward ruthlessness over thoughtful contemplation and mistake management skills which maintain the system for “wisdom”.
