And yes, I know it’s already a word. But it has been changed up a bit for popular/trendy usage.

Finesse is very much a hip slang term used by the youngins right now. It is used (as I, an old, have learned from context) to mean to steal, trick, persuade, etc. in a smooth way.

Thank you, this. Plus they have the topped rank film school in the country with an admittance rate of, like, 3-5%.

I thought her parents were Lebanese?

Oh, this one was pretty tame. He also tweeted that he was going to have the FEC investigate NBC after he watched a rerun of the SNL Christmas episode over the weekend.

Yeah, this narrative that USC is a shitty school seems to have come out of nowhere. It may not be Harvard or Yale or Stanford, but its acceptance rate is 17 percent and average SAT and GPA for entering freshman are 1,400 and 3.73. It’s a really good university.

Hoop earrings as appropriation seems like a bit of a reach. Especially those specific ones.

My thoughts:

Holy fuck are those real tweets by the President of the United States?? They read like parody. I avoid his voice or anything he writes, so I’m not up to date with his madness.

I know two people really well who did as well as a few acquaintances. They are all incredibly high achieving people. One has two Olympic medals, one just wrote her second book and she’s like 25, another is a hugely successful lawyer. I’m most familiar with their screenwriting program which is the best in the country,…

What is with the recurring theme in these articles that people who are already rich shouldn’t or don’t need to go college???? Last time I checked college wasn’t making everybody rich....

The article stated that USC was an “academically so-so university” and that San Diego was good enough for non-academic regrettable party shenanigans.

Agreed! I’m a college student myself, admittedly from a normal state university that would accept just about anyone. It’s frustrating to see that among many the narrative is being spun as if these universities - or college degrees in general - are worthless and that “nobody learns anything from college” or that Ivy…

“USC—an extremely expensive but academically so-so university”

Bone to pick: this girl being trash isn’t a hall pass to disparage universities (USC and SDSU in this article alone) that a lot of us worked hard to get into and get through. You don’t sound cool when you suggest these competitive schools are worthless; you sound like an elitisit. If your point is that education is…

Centrism isn’t going to do jack shit about babies in cages.

Do you think there’s any possibility that “all about the Benjamins” was more about “money is speech” and Buckley v. Valeo rather than the The Protocols of the Elders of Zion (which is what I think you meant to reference)?

If you people nominate another shithead centrist, for sure.

“The American Civil Liberties Union of Texas filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging a state law that requires government contractors to certify they are not engaged in boycotts of Israel, the ACLU said.”

I think they were ridding on the old saying, “In order for evil to flourish, it is only necessary for good people to do nothing.” If you have a platform, and you ignore the problem or use it for tepid crap like “Both sides have a point” or “Criticism of Israel is anti-semitism” then you contribute to the cultural…