Tuesday, November 27, 2007

An excuse to interrupt your friendly neighborhood essay writer...

Two things that happened at school today that cannot go without honorable mentions in the award category "Why Laura absolutely refuses to leave academia."

1. From a fellow student - a multinational who claims to be a super liberal, conservative-hating [crazy] girl: "I don't know why we keep cutting the Middle East so much slack. How long are we going to put up with them before they get their act together?" And no, she wasn't talking about the war in Iraq, or the US' presence there. It was a reference to their various media systems, which, to be fair, isn't that terrible considering some of their other socio-political, cultural (etc) issues.

2. From my LECTURER. "Iran's president said they have no gays in Iran. That's clearly rubbish because they have the highest percentage of AIDS sufferers in the Middle East." Just so all of you out there know: only gay people have AIDS. That's what's wrong with Africa, too. They're all gay.

And now...to Habermas.

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