Lee C. Bollinger, President of the University? Big penis!

I went to Tennessee, which is quite fond of its large, well-disciplined, and staggeringly, staggeringly uncreative marching band (that’s not the fault of the actual band members, of course, unless they spend a lot of time asking the director if they can go a bit crazy this week and do four Sousa marches instead of…

I’m not terribly surprised an Ivy League school is doing a bit of pearl-clutching when they see CUMB where they don’t want it. 

Since the Columbia football stadium was funded by and is named for Bob Kraft isn’t everything that happens there a secret dick joke?

There are two members in the center (presumably the “color guard”) who are simply carrying “wet floor” mini-sandwich board signs... Why am I only discovering this now?!

Just watched the embedded video... There's a guy front and center who is drumming on toilet seat/cover which is draped around his neck... If this isn't what college is supposed to be about, what purpose is it serving?

Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?!

Congrats on being a cool kid who took up smoking after literally everyone on the planet knew it was bad for you.

This article has convinced me we should do more, not less, about the vaping thing.

I know, right?  When E. coli in spinach makes a lot of people sick, it’s usual to pull it from the shelves for a while and recall whole batches.  And you don’t see a bunch of bloggers going, “Stop the spinach panic! I have been eating spinach for six years and I’m fine.”

I think the most powerful indictment I can muster against the Christian Right is that the more power they acquire, the more sincerely I wish that this country followed Jesus’ teachings. I don’t necessarily know how I feel about religion, but in the words of Winston from Ghostbusters, I love Jesus’ style.

1. How did it help you quit smoking if you have been Juuling for literal years? You have traded one bad nicotine delivery device for another - less researched - nicotine delivery device. There are cigarette abatement programs that would work much quicker than your plan.

I can’t wait to hear all the usual suspects on the “Christian” right to object to feeding the hungry, housing the homeless, showing mercy to the criminal, and aiding the widowed and the orphaned. I’m sure the U.S. being a “Christian country” will continue to just mean being anti-abortion (something the Bible never…

I’m not going to pretend to stand on principle here. Vaping is incredibly annoying and the people who do it seem to think they can puff their clouds of who-the-fuck-knows-what anywhere they like because it’s not a cigarette. Thanks, asshole, I wanted to smell like grape/stale smoke the rest of the day.

Ok, but as someone who works in pharma, specifically in the drug development side of things, this is a pretty standard response to unexplained deaths and serious adverse events directly linked to a product. Just because vaping is cool* doesn’t mean that industry caution should be thrown out of the window at the…

Yeah, for comparison’s sake, here are the youth smoking numbers up until Juul became popular and sent it back upward again. If you went to high school in the ‘90s or ‘00s, you probably have an unrealistic conception of how many high schoolers smoke cigarettes these days. It had fallen off a ton.

I’m actually all for stopping with the vaping. I’ll leave now. 

“Please, Can We Stop With The Vape?”

This. Every article about vaping is filled with vape supporters claiming that vaping is somehow anti-big tobacco. All the major vaping companies are owned by cigarette giants who now have a way to get back into the under 18 market.

I mean, so? I don’t want Biden to run anyway, if we can get both out of here with one stone? Yay!