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I know I gave this link to a very interesting opinion piece from my campus newspaper last week, but I wanted to post it again for a number of reasons. One, it's still very pertinent, and this person expressed my views about the "causes" here at college than I ever could (childings, I'm not sure if you remember mentioning a while back about how there are no "heroes" and how people take up pointless or at least misguided "causes" to be part of something). Two, a couple of responses were published yesterday. While the responses seem valid at first, you realize both of these writers are just either attacking the OP's assessment of the photography show about the dining hall workers (I haven't seen the exhibit, for the record), or are attacking the OP's character himself -- and that both of these op-eds have entirely missed the point of the original article. (I'd suggest you read the comments to that one; they're actually good for once.) And three, this just gives me the excuse to post this op-ed published this week, about how the college "bubble" breeds a sense of entitlement that graduates take with them when they leave (and the comments here are fairly interesting as well). While I have seen this entitlement in action, I would like to point out that a.) this is true to a certain extent on any college campus in the world, b.) some people who enter college are entitled jerks and some are not, and they usually stay that way when they graduate, and c.) while colleges (or at least liberal arts colleges) try to more moral, rational, critical, and thoughtful human beings, they more often than not give students the tools to better rationalize their own pettiness and self-absorbsion -- I don't mean to be too cynical, but it's difficult for any well-meaning institution to make people, whose personalities are all but set at that point in their lives, better. (And also, yeah, Ari Fleischer was an alum, but so was the playwright who wrote The Vagina Monologues -- no matter how you feel about that, that's gotta count for something.)

OK, for this week I have the latest from Moby:

This is a song off his upcoming album Wait For Me. It looks like he's going in the complete opposite direction of Last Night, and considering I think this song is gorgeous (If a bit simplistic) I'm definitely looking forward to it.  And this video was directed by David Lynch, of Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks fame.  I know a couple of Lynch fans, so they'd appreciate this.

If I'm online for any reason over the next week or so, chances are I'm trying to avoid paper-writing.  :D