In 1994, I wore my In Utero shirt to college. I’d walk down the hall, and people would look at the shirt. I still remember a professor looking at it, not apparently hip to the scene. She asked, “Bret, is there something you’re trying to tell us?” I had no idea what I was trying to say. Kurt Cobain had just shot his head off with a shotgun. Before that life-changing event, I hadn’t been the biggest fan of Nirvana, but I did recognize the immediate impact “Smells Like Teen Spirit” had on music, or at least on MTV. Nirvana had seemingly killed and buried Hair Metal, and they had done it single-handedly. What exactly was this “Alternative” sound? It was weird, because soon it felt like everything was “alternative,” and that didn’t make any sense. Once everything is the same, how can it be anything but standard, normal? Nirvana was okay, but at least at the time I was wearing the merch, I was much more into Offspring and Green Day and Tool. And that’s about as far as I went into...
"Out of touch with real Americans. Hell, why do we even elect a president? I say we go back to monarchy. It's not like the people we elect have any idea how real people live..."
ReplyDeleteInteresting comment. Did you have free or reduced price breakfast and lunch in public school? A large number of your "real People" did. Look around at the really poor if you know any. Was Obama really poor in "this world's goods" as he grew up? Was his father a hard working man? How about his white grandparents? Were they day laborers? What is Obama's net worth now? How did Biden get his current net worth?
Men can reform. Maybe Biden has. Do you as an educator approve of plagiarism or do you doubt that he was guilty?