A Clemson University frat thought it’d be cool to dress up like black gang members for their Christmas party—called Clemson Cripmas—because stereotypes and racism really ring in the holiday season. Who needs AAS 101? Sigma Alpha Epsilon, which has no black members (and probably collectively no black friends) according to Clemson, are the fools behind the party where members dressed …
Your “Ten Buck” Decisions Add Up
Saving is important, but it can be difficult to walk the thin line between cheap and frugal. If you don’t like nickel and diming on everything, think of your expenses as “Ten Buck” decisions. They quickly add up to produce savings or, at the very least, more cash for you to work with. Mr. Money Mustache writes at his blog: …
‘No Homo’ Personalized License Plate
A tweet posted Monday morning by Paul Fulton, Jr. identified an official Alabama license plate that read “N0H0M0,” raising questions about whether the state tolerates such language on its license plates. “No homo” is a phrase used to distance an individual from any implication that the individual might be gay, and its offensive connotation led to a $75,000 fine when …
How You Can Achieve Your Dreams
A dozen great ideas are useless if you can’t follow them through. Even with endless ambition, having too many goals can pull you in too many directions, making it difficult to actually finish anything. Instead, you need to choose a small number of goals and focus your attention.Our brains behave like a beach ball filled with bees. Hundreds of conflicting …
Teachers Pay Out of Pocket For Supplies
In the second volume in our series on American teachers, we’re exploring the reality that many of our public schools are greatly underfunded, short on supplies, and are financially supported by teachers themselves. Take P.S. 132 in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City where the children’s toilets are decrepit, old, and overflowing with waste. Or, even worse, a …
Swastika Wrap Pulled From Walgreens
Walgreens is pulling a Hanukkah wrapping paper from its stores after one shopper noticed a disturbing symbol hidden in the blue-and-silver pattern. “We were wandering around the store and saw the wrapping paper and I looked at it and said, ‘These are swastikas,’ and I just blew it. I didn’t know what to do,” Cheryl Shapiro told the Los Angeles …
Undercover Cop Pulls Out Gun During Protest
Protesters in Oakland, California, were demonstrating over the grand jury decisions not to indict officers in Ferguson and New York City when an undercover cop dressed in plainclothes pulled out his gun. According to tweets captured in a Storify, and a report from NBC News, a cop pulled out his gun and aimed it at protesters. The officer says he …