How I used book subscriptions to make reading much easier
I’ve read about 30 articles already on the ‘importance of reading books.’ Reading books is good for you. Go read a book. Get off Twitter and read a book.
But, at the same time, no one ever talks about how you can more books. I would get super pumped about cracking open a book, and I would struggle to try to find books that I liked. I’d spend hours scrolling through book recommendations, spending copious hours on Amazon, and looking through Barnes & Nobles, and I wouldn’t find what I wanted.
Even if I did find a book that I…
Experience racism in person
“Deprived of touch. Deprived of conversation. Deprived of humanity.” Would be a great opening to a horror movie. However, it’s also a great description of Quarantine. While we sit around complaining about the inability to visit our friends, we talk about how we’ve been wronged even more than Britney Spears, while millions of Americans die of COVID-19. We hope that we might actually get to return to the days where we have the ability to meet with friends.
I’ll be able to fly around the world with my passport and have racial slurs yelled at me, in person.
I’ll be…
Another email from middle management
In this email, I will waste your time saying the same thing that everyone else has said for the past year or so.
As a new president ascends to high office, we look hopeful towards our COVID-19 progress. We hope that with the new year comes new possibilities. We want to thank you for this unprecedented time by saying thank you. We appreciate it, but we’re still not going to give bonuses to you (but management will).
We want to thank the workers on the front lines who risk COVID every day so that our customers can get pizza on…
Being Asian doesn’t excuse you from being racist to your own people
Malaysian comedian (Many Malaysians are often of Chinese ethnicity, Ng most likely is) Nigel Ng rose to internet stardom for his videos as Uncle Roger, criticizing Hersha Patel’s BBC egg fried rice tutorials. His videos consist of a stereotypical Chinese Uncle with a thick Chinese accent. After his viral rice reaction video, Nigel Ng went on to make a series of videos as Uncle Roger. These include going to Chinatown, critiquing others' fried rice, and watching the Great British Bake Off. …
Burn the corn!
When push comes to shove, we must shove. I must shove my parents with the full ferocity of an angry baby with a temper tantrum (also known as the Trump supporters trying to storm the US Capitol). Behold! We must do what is morally right and burn all the vegetables. The last remnants of the oppressive parents who willingly abuse my palette.
I declare succession. I want to leave the grip of my parents. My parents, the true psychos, decided to physically abuse me with Brussel sprouts. We must impeach them with the intent to incite a riot. Yes, I…
‘It’s not like he can do much in a few days?’ — Someone
There’s this belief that Donald Trump is unable to do anything significant at the end of his presidency. ‘Trump won’t do anything bad.” “There’s too little time.” “It would be impossible for him to do anything crazy.” Unfortunately, Trump and his secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, are burning American foreign policy to the ground and deliberately sabotaging Biden’s foreign policy plan.
In just a short amount of time, Mike Pompeo labeled the Houthi rebels terrorists, allowed US diplomats to take official visits to Taiwan, and placed Cuba on the state-sponsored terrorism list. …
So you won’t allow leaning on a wall, but you’ll allow a terrorist attack
Well, excuse me. I remember the day well. All the employees were so rude! When I entered the capitol, they forced me to open the bags for inspection. What! Why do you need to see what’s inside the bag? Are you the insane Libtards who are trying to spy for the Deep State? You must be the people who are partaking in treason. I repeat TREASON.
I entered the hall, and they forced me. I repeat FORCED me to wait in a line. What poor customer service. This is Capitol Hill. This is my MONEY paying for this building, and…
You paid 5k for a made-up story! — Motivational Speaker
I’m here to give you a motivating story of me. Yes, me. The person who is a 22-year-old unemployed college graduate who definitely has a ‘lot of life experience.’
I grew up struggling as the middle child of a poor family (well, poor in Nantucket making 1 million dollars a year). Money was tight. My father was incarcerated (don’t worry, it was a 2-month prison sentence spread out over 18 months in a pay-to-stay jail).
There was little help for my family. We only had 2 maids for our main 8,000 square foot house in Scarsdale, New York. …
How the NRA stands in the way of gun control reform
After every school shooting, the aftermath is all but predictable. We mourn the losses of the teachers and children taken by this ‘tragedy’. Then our focus changes to gun control. The National Rifle Association and Dana Losech will cause a stir repeating the same phrases. “Guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” “The only thing that can stop a good guy with a gun is a bad guy with a gun,” and some version of ‘you're using this tragedy for political gain.’
My generation of students is accustomed to lockdown drills, where school shooting protocol is drilled into our heads.
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Maybe.. we should actually work together in a pandemic.
Once upon a time… there was a beautiful little virus. His name was SARS-COV 2. He loved to infect people and give them COVID-19. Unfortunately, he spread. He went all the way to the US. The GREATEST COUNTRY in the world. The country was so great that Black men are killed by police on a daily basis. A country without universal healthcare, something that most countries of our economic standing have. A country where minimum wage doesn’t do what it should: be a living wage. You know that country
Little boy corona infected that country. Then with misinformation, with our…
