On Here's Why You Need A Sweater
I'm THAT GIRL, I guess - I don't wear sweaters or jackets or coats practically ever. I love the feel of freezing air, and sweaters kind of ruin that. I don't give a fuck if it makes you uncomfortable.
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On Harry Potter and the Incredibly Conservative Aristocratic Children's Club
"I don't think it's a bad idea for kids to learn to trust themselves. I'm saying these books don't teach that; the embrace of authority is all there, it's just the actual authority is the Order of the Phoenix/Dumbledore."
There's a difference between blindly embracing whatever authority arbitrarily happens to be in power, and choosing to trust people who have proven to be worthy of their authority. The books teach that kids shouldn't always follow the authority of parents or teachers or the Ministry just because they're authority figures. The kids in the books trust themselves enough to question their authority figures and figure out who they agree with. However, HP doesn't endorse blindly rejecting all authority figures either, as it shouldn't. The kids are kids, and they're smart enough about their limitations to turn to wiser, more experienced adults to help them. Sure, that's an embrace of authority, but it's a smart embrace of authority.
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On Harry Potter and the Incredibly Conservative Aristocratic Children's Club
I raved about The Amber Spyglass when I was 10ish. I didn't even love the other two, just liked them the way I liked most things I read, but The Amber Spyglass changed the way I thought about religion. And books, and life. Now I'm kind of scared to reread it, because what if it was actually not good?
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On Oh Mark Zuckerberg, Who Gives a Crap What Illiterate Children Want?
Right, but Facebook offers the extra service of delivering chats in the wrong order and sometimes waiting a couple hours after you hit enter to deliver a message. Because having things work gets tiresome.
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On How to Cheat and Plagiarize Your Way Through College
Line spacing too! And always put two spaces between sentences so it looks like you're getting done faster.
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On On Discovering That the Kids Have Drunk Nearly All the Scotch
The idea is that if a bottle just disappears, parents will notice, but they don't really know how much of the bottle they've used up. This is not true? (Shit!)
But I just used up the bourbon. Which was technically a "birthday present." For not-me. Er.
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On NPR: Swearing Is A Trait of East Coast Elitists
"NPR's legal team says that using the Lord's name in vain for emphasis is not illegal."
Glad they have a team on that.
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On The Freelancer Game: "Are You Lunch?"
I work at work, but 3 cans of Red Bull (in the past 3 hours) > all of this. Who needs food?
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On A Letter to the Editor of 'The Paris Review' from the Year 2020
Ah, that's why paper's been tasting so good recently.
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On My Life Without A Cell Phone: An Amazing Tale Of Survival
I don't have a cell phone, but only because I'm freaked out by monthly bills. My reasons go like this:
Convenience: Hey, my bank account has money in it!
Self-reliance: I can pay for things!
Punctuality/Attention Span: I don't gaze into space thinking about my bank account. Okay, not quite as much.
Reliable Reception: My debit card is always able to pay for things.
Cancer-free Skull: Health insurance. Kidding, my parents pay for that.
Freedom: equals money.
But then, I realize things might be different for people who have ever held a full-time year-round job/aren't still teenagers for a few more months.