For about the past month, I have been sick almost every week, which has meant a lot of sleeping and resting for me.
Posts published in “Opinion”
Many of you reading this may not care about the Justice of the Peace race for District 2 of Washington County, Arkansas.
Even if you are not into fashion, you’ve probably heard the name Virgil Abloh an awful lot lately. After all, he is a creative director for Kanye West, designer of his uber-popular brand Off-White, DJ (performs under the name “Flat-White”), architect (designed furniture and is releasing a collaboration with IKEA later this year), artist (recently took over London’s Gagosian Gallery for a collaborative exhibit with Takashi Murakami featuring prints and sculptures and designed the album art for Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Watch the Throne, and Yeezus and Lil Uzi Vert’s Luv Is Rage 2), and lecturer (so far at Columbia University, Rhode Island School of Design, and Harvard University).
Today, it was brought to my attention that I let classes, and the fact that I’m not doing as well as I feel I should be in them, get to me and bring me down.
A common complaint I get is that I’m hugely biased towards Asian/fusion restaurants in my reviews. For the most part, that’s completely true.
It is not even March yet and already there have been 18 school shootings in the U.S. Eighteen!
It’s almost as if this number is screaming at people for something to change, but instead people decided to argue over what characterizes a “school shooting.”
This week brings us to the conclusion of New York Fashion Week, which seems to show us the outdated modes and is the most tired affair of the fashion shows.
Sometimes I think language really confines us. I could spend hours upon hours perusing the Webster’s Dictionary for a specific word that encapsulates all of what an object or person represents, only to realize that no arrangement of our alphabet can express our thoughts.
I must confess: I bandwagon with Democrats and left-leaning people for nearly everything. I march in all the protests, I tweet the trendy hashtags, and I campaign for the people who advocate for the rights of marginalized groups.
I know that this is a sensitive subject and one that I touched upon last semester. However, given the reaction from the White House as well as many members of Congress, it appears as if there may soon be some legislative action on the Second Amendment.