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By Evan ~ July 3rd, 2007. Filed under: world news.
• Viewing American Class Divisions Through Facebook And MySpace is an essay comparing the socio-economic levels of various teenagers and how their class dictates whether they sign up for one social networking site or the other. It’s quite boring (spoiler: MySpace is for Latino/Hispanic teens, immigrant teens, “burnouts,” “alternative kids,” “art fags,” punks, emos, goths, gangstas, queer kids, and other kids who didn’t play into the dominant high school popularity paradigm, Facebook is for the popular kids). This article isn’t anywhere near as informative as the one I wrote for my school newspaper about how the football team was probably salivating over the arrival of Facebook at our college, because they had to work that much less to figure out which girls would make the easiest sexual assault targets. Now that’s real, in-depth, hard-hitting journalism! Anyone can make class distinctions, it takes skill to insult most of a college’s student body. [story]
• “Make no mistake. Satan is having a field day with MySpace. Thanks for the laughs, American Decency Association! [story]
• Everyone and their dicks now owns an iPhone. Peter Gammons over at ESPN wrote a blog entry about all the baseball players who made their wives go buy one for them so they wouldn’t have to wait on line. One of my friends on Facebook devoted an entire gallery of photographs to capturing the process of opening his new phone. How pathetic that people get worked up about a $700 toy. You get to pay either $500 or $600 for the phone itself, then you can get a plan from anywhere between $60 and $100. The Wall Street Journal calls those plans “simple and affordable”. I don’t know about you, but I like my little phone and my unlimited Verizon calls and texts, plus 500 minutes and 500 outside-Verizon texts, and I pay about $30 a month for it. Do I really need all the added bells and whistles of the iPhone? Maybe when the price dips to about $100 for the phone I’ll think about it. I guess in the year 2015 I’ll catch up with the rest of you.
• The CIA released their “family jewels” on the public last week. These are internal reports detailing assassination attempts and plots against foreign leaders, and the secret testing of mind-and-behavior altering drugs like LSD on unwitting citizens. Sounds pretty cool to me. I for one wish the CIA did more weird, secret shit like this. I mean, everyone in the world already hates us so much, is it really going to get worse for us if we plot to kill a few more foreign leaders? Suddenly people are going to say they’re fed up with us? We’re already there! Let’s execute some people and at least make it kind of fun if we’re going to go down in flames. Also, I’d like to be secretly provided with drugs by the government. It’ll totally enable me to get past any crippling paranoia that might arise from knowingly ingesting certain drugs. [story]
• No, that’s no alien crop circle, it’s just a drugged up driver going on a weird rampage through some poor sucker’s farmland. [story]
• I got a haircut AND a six-pack of Buzz Cola at 711 today. You should, too. Get some Buzz Cola, that is. They’re available everywhere! So are the collectible Squishee cups and the pink frosted donuts.
