The Outspoken And Omnipresent Dudes You Love To Hate: College Conservatives

You know the type. You’d like to call them complacent, but that would mean that they had actually achieved something on their own besides making the five-minute drive to class in their father’s Mercedes. As insufferable as Donald Trump, but lacking the professional experience that might begin to justify the inflated sense of self. The characteristically glib condemnations of the “lazy” poor while they have yet to clock any hours in the real world. The college conservative. They’re everywhere.

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The Great Snack Food Gentrification

Nothing gets my blood pumping like the thought of artisanal bacon and quinoa-seasoned local popcorn.

Is This How We Preserve Mandela’s Legacy?

By punishing and persecuting those who fight for truth and transparency, what kind of message do we send to the rest of the world and to our youth?

The 2013 Year In Review

The mayor ranted that he would kill Mike Tyson. He ranted he’d only need 10 minutes. Then only five.

The mayor confessed he smoked crack cocaine. “Probably in one of my drunken stupors.” He wasn’t sure which one. But one of them, anyway.

The mayor was black-mailed by gang members. They wanted $5,000 and a car for the video of him allegedly smoking crack cocaine. $150,000, for the other one.

And yet Toronto mayor Rob Ford was not arrested. He was not shot. He was not even impeached. Toronto mayor Rob Ford was more popular than ever. His approval ratings spiked up 3% since his crack admission—higher than President Barack Obama’s, according to a Forum Research survey of 1,049 Toronto voters. He even mulled running for Canadian Prime Minister.

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Watch Your Back, Pope Francis

People couldn’t handle Jesus for too long, either.