Wanton

In the past, the majority of my postings on here have centered around a specific subject; however, I've felt compelled lately to write on many of the random things I read and see day-to-day, much of which is not at all related. That being said, you can feel free to read this post in its entirety or not. I write this for myself and whoever else wants to kill a few minutes.

Did you all know that Bethune-Cookman has the same motto as Winston-Salem State University? I was looking up HBCUs and came across the school's wikipedia page where I saw the school's logo sitting smugly upon MY school's motto. I had to check the school's founding date to make sure that we hadn't actually bit "Enter to learn, depart to serve" from them, but they were founded after us. So yeah, shame on them.

It's cool to me that the official website for Space Jam has remained untouched since 1996. Seriously, look at it. It's cool af to me to have that reminder of the past here in 2014, but that is some struggle HTML if ever I've seen any. Brings back to memory the days of screaming modems and turtle-speed dial up. Yeah, I'll gladly leave all of that in 1996.

I'm currently reading Revolutionary Suicide by Huey P. Newton and it's friggin awesome. I haven't been this engrossed in a book since I read The Autobiography of Malcolm X. I'd recommend everyone to check out Revolutionary Suicide if you haven't already; and if you haven't read Malcolm X's autobiography, wtf is wrong with you? Get off here right now and go find it.

I'm not saying the government is planning something very sinister, what with the fluoride in our drinking water and various chemicals in just about everything we own, but I'm not saying they aren't, either. I'm just saying, why is it that articles like these from credible sources like the Huffington Post go ignored, while our news channels circulate the same stories for weeks on end? And what's the deal with water fluoridation, anyway? Shouldn't we get a choice as to whether or not we want to drink that shid? Not in the government's opinion, we don't. Here is a map where you can check whether or not the water in your area is fluoridated. If it is, there's likely Fluorosilicic acid in it. Check this wikipedia article on the stuff and make the call on how you feel.

Did you all know that Thomas Jefferson called John Adams a hermaphrodite in 1800 when they ran against each other? He justified this by saying he had neither "the force and firmness of a man nor the gentleness and sensibility of a woman." LMaaaao seriously, I'm not joking.

David Sarnoff was a prick.

Some guy--this so-called heir to the Dupont fortune--was recently tried and CONVICTED of raping his THREE YEAR OLD DAUGHTER, but spared prison as the judge reasoned he wouldn't "fare well" there...

I really don't want to talk much about this, so here is the link. This guy pled GUILTY to the crime and was put into a rehabilitation program. He didn't break into the white house and sprinkle crack crumbs everywhere, he RAPED A LITTLE GIRL. What makes it so bad is that this actually happened years ago, but recently came to light because his wife is now suing him. But like I said, there's the article if you want to read it.

More coming whenever I feel like it, I guess.

-Nick G.