December 2011
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Experiences From Inside The State, 2009.
“Where’s pacman?! I heard ‘im! I heard pacman!”—The rallying cry of my cube partner, ye olde toothless hillbilly, in response to my playing of electronic music. She knows the secrets of the world and is in debt to a number of corrupt and to be sure, heartless fiends. How dare they practice their usury on her open heart? I am still in my cube, stained and freezing,...
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“The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have...”
– Ferdinand Magellan, c. 1510
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Soulwax: Miserable Girl
If you were hot, mother, we would win!
Just as I did when I won “Most Disturbing Presentation” in my favorite Demography class, after knocking out an overconfident banshee to the cheers of my co-workers, I once again feel like Buster when he won Saddest at Motherboy. Pride is a strange and foreign emotion.
Deirdre, Aged 18 on the State of the State...
Behold the blatant, resentful political musings of an angry young ddz. I have yet to recover the final copy of this rant which masqueraded as a term paper and garnered me the dreaded B+, my first year of undergraduate studies. Not much has changed as of late. If anything, I have regressed into the stifling, hyper right-wing environment of my formative years. When faced with backwards thought,...
pretty shitty bday bro
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“No one wins. One side just loses more slowly.”
– Prez, The Wire
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The Only Graduate Paper I Liked Writing
Basis for my thesis, now woefully dated. Posting this for some kind of validation (if one can be found in obsolescence,) and perhaps a reason for how I got myself into my current unfixable situation.
The Threat of Latin American Drug Cartels in West Africa
In the past five years, West Africa (particularly the nations of Guinea-Conakry, Guinea-Bissau, Ghana, Sierra-Leone and Senegal) has become...
