sometimes my faith in humanity gets a little boost

"It is inspiring it can happen on a Catholic campus. If this can happen here, what can't happen?"

what is it, you ask? a queer studies minor. at depaul. inspiring indeed.

"we want to market to cool, good looking people...we don't market to anyone other than that."

don't read this unless you want to get really, really mad. it's an article about abercrombie and fitch, and their corporate image. never have i read about a company that's so blatant about excluding people. i mean, they basically admit that unless you're a skinny cheerleader, you are undesirable and don't belong in their store.

( no 'losers' beyond this point. )

...and you think it's us freaks, us undesirables, who have a bad attitude?

(article courtesy of pyromantik.)

state of nature

i've been a linkwhore today, but oh well. this one on Overheard In New York amused me to no end, and reminded me of late-night dorm conversations at the U(C):

Guy: So then why are guys from the Eastern Europe and black guys so good at basketball?
Dad: Natural selection.
Yuppie son: What?
Dad: They've had to fight to survive. It weeds out the physically inadequate.
Guy: Give me a break. It's the ghetto, not some Hobbesian state of nature; they're not cavemen living in anarchy up there.