Sweet Pickles

Thanks, D-Hug!

In case you aren't a regular reader of WCFC (in which case, you're a weirdo), the slut who runs that site has found and shared a great link to the web's greatest Venn diagrams.  She already posted the best one, but here's my personal fave:

My County's Latest Tragedy

When I got home from class tonight, my Facebook feed was buzzing in a way that most of yours probably weren't (unless you happen to be linked with multiple people I grew up with).  This afternoon's shooting rampage happened in my home county, making it our second-deadliest massacre in less than 20 years.  While I feel especially lucky and grateful that neither happened in my hometown, it still strikes close to home.  I don't want to make what is a large-scale tragedy all about me... it's just that not to acknowledge it here would seem, to me, somehow neglectful or indifferent.

 

Facebook Tips for the Politically-Incorrect

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.