The Undergraduate Student Association Council election has always been a bastion of democracy, like a microcosm of real-world politick at the most trivial of levels.
Author Archives: Jordan Manalastas
Your tweets will outlive you in the Library of Congress
Chirpers of the world beware: That tweet last week ““ the one about your drunken liaison with the neighbor’s garden gnome while bound by the grips of Bacchus and Bieber ““ will live on in immortality, well beyond your paltry years.
It’s not a revolution without readers
For all the fuss that’s flared around the latest fad in Apple’s electronic arsenal, your lowly Luddite has always been suspicious of anything marketed as “revolutionary.”
Outrage and disapproval stifle freedom of speech
Over the course of my tenure as teenage provocateur, your humble heretic has been called many things ““ ignorant, arrogant, pretentious, completely wrong. Such adjectives have mostly come from various religious folk aghast by my practice of treating nothing as sacred, but this of course comes with the territory of being a modern day heathen. And while I’ve always welcomed scorn and censure, there is one point of criticism to which I must object: that my writing is disrespectful ““ that I should censor myself so as to not offend.
Sex scandals call for change
It is now Holy Week.
Stop feeling guilty, indulge in the pleasures of life
I like to keep myself on edge.
Banning smoking is illogical
Ancient legends speak of winged serpents, whose claws pierce armor and lungs breathe fire. Their wingspan so fearsome and methods so wicked, the Bible likened Satan himself unto their vile form.