Ya know how, when friends of yours get tagged in the photos albums of people whom you aren't friends with, you can still see all the photos in that other person's album? Word to the not-so-wise: try to think ahead to your first job interview before uploading all of your photos. Check out this gem I just stumbled across...
Offend much? Am I overreacting, or wouldn't the Halloween costume on the right (unfortunately, he was tagged only as "Lil Wayne") constitute blackface anywhere else in the country? With regard to church attendance, it has often been said that 11:00am is the most segregated hour in the American week. In our town, it appears that downtown on a Friday night would be an equally segregated time of the week. Otherwise, this colostomy bag (or rather, the contents of one) would have gotten his ass kicked on the streets of one of America's twelve "coolest college towns."
I realize that, when we're 19 or 20 years old, we don't always make the smartest decisions (I certainly didn't... check out my GPA, or my Valtrex prescription). Even at my own extremely liberal undergraduate institution, fraternities were frequently in trouble for this kind of stupidity. I also realize that, typically, our state is about a quarter of a century behind the rest of the country when it comes to national trends. But come on. Really??? Who still thinks it's okay to do this on a public sidewalk in 2009? Obviously, some undergrads where I teach still do. Luckily, the cheerful young woman rubbing up on the colostomy bag was tagged by name. And I'll be saving this picture, just waiting, in case she ever runs for public office.
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