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(11/20/18 5:24am)
In the wake of America’s latest batch of shootings, the American College of Physicians published a position paper summarizing the organization’s positions on the public policies it supports regarding the prevention of gun violence and accidental firearm injuries. Unfortunately, if you happen to have a platform and say the word “gun” these days, the results will be akin to saying “Beetlejuice” — strange old people will appear out of nowhere and harass you. On Nov. 7, the National Rifle Association issued an official rebuttal, hailed by a tweet reading “Someone should tell self-important anti-gun doctors to stay in their lane. Half of the articles in Annals of Internal Medicine are pushing for gun control. Most upsetting, however, the medical community seems to have consulted NO ONE but themselves.” This was then followed by a link to their response, the thumbnail featuring a stock photo of a man in a lab coat resembling a fiendish hybrid of Larry David and John Lennon reading a book. The NRA has already taken a lot of fire for this, and the article itself isn’t important, as most of it is just nitpicking one citation in a paper that has 63 others. That said, I find the tweet itself extremely amusing due to how the NRA pretends science works, as well as how they want people to think medical research is supposed to be conducted. So, let’s break this down.
(10/15/18 3:05am)
I’ve had multiple people approach me over the past few days critiquing my critique of Pythagoras. Some of those were valid, such as how I misattributed a lot of Plato and Aristotle’s metaphysics to Pythagoras, but there was one point in particular that unnerved me with both its content and the frequency of its occurrence. The argument I refer to goes as follows: I shouldn’t mock Pythagoras for having bizarre teachings, since he was alive in an era with different standards more conducive to his line of thought, which I would likely have also adopted had I been around then. I’ll concede that the latter is likely true, but at the same time, Pythagoras was unique for his time in that he dedicated his life to flagrantly building the most stereotypical cult possible. I mean, seriously, let’s break this down:
(09/20/18 2:00am)
If, by chance, you happen into a conversation about philosophy with a philosophy major, often times the conversation will forcibly shifted towards how they see their studies as criminally undervalued by the rest of academia and that philosophy is the most useful degree in existence. From experience, I feel that I can say definitively that the only concept held to be universal among all philosophers is the belief that everyone needs to take them more seriously. Given that these ideas are backed by many brilliant thinkers whom I need not question, I’ve decided to use my prestigious platform as a humor writer for a school newspaper to provide a public service—to enlighten the layman and the dilettante so that they might better appreciate the brilliance of the philosophical mind. To do that, we shall start our journey in the birthplace of philosophy: the genius of Ancient Greece.
(07/11/18 2:35pm)
Aries: March 21 to April 19
(04/18/18 5:16am)
After fielding numerous complaints regarding the paper’s lack of woke-ness, the managing board of The Cavalier Daily have unanimously decided to make major changes to the 120-year-old newspaper’s content policy. Starting Wednesday, The Cavalier Daily will make all sections of the paper conform to mandatory slang quotas so as to make its publications more hip with the kids.
(03/13/18 5:16am)
After compiling the reports of our intelligence officers in the field, it has become readily apparent that a storm is brewing on the front lines. Thanks to the sacrifice of many brave young men and women, we have learned that the time is ripe for the annual sortie known as Easter. It may not be as large an assault as Christmas, but the chaos in its timing cannot be understated. The exact date is never quite known until it occurs, so at any point after Peeps appear in the supermarket, our troops are liable to be assaulted by baskets lined with multicolored filaments of unknown origin, strange ellipsoid grenades that release chemicals known to cause diabetes, and bizarre anthropomorphic lagomorphs that chase children in shopping malls. Beyond that, the lines are likely to be awash in all varieties of evangelical subterfuge — which we must deal with accordingly. For instance: