This past Friday, a blog post by opinion writer Peter M. Gunn for The Daily Truth stirred up controversy and criticism from all angles in the Ohio State progressive community. As Editor-In-Chief of The Pulse, I take full responsibility for monitoring content on the site, and stand behind the decision to post the blog.
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The most tragic part about all of last Wednesday was that if you went to the mobile site, Wikipedia was still up. Wikipedia didn’t actually go offline; the statement was symbolic. Nevertheless, according to the Tweetosphere, approximately 25 million papers went unwritten yesterday as a result, many of them by intelligent young college students like yourself bewildered as to how anyone conducted research before the age of a user-edited encyclopedia. The decline of higher education has been oft-bemoaned, and though I normally find such arguments to be facile and historically ignorant (society is as stupid/violent/horny as it ever was), this Harvard entrance exam from 1869 gives me a great deal of pause (remember, that these were the kids playing football without helmets). The decline of higher education is real, and it’s all Rick Scott’s fault. I remember sitting in...
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As befitting with the grand tradition of this country, the people who benefit the most from the great work and struggle of Martin Luther King Jr. are rich white institutions. Specifically ski resorts, the three day weekend is a serious boon for the vacation and leisure industries (Though, my ski enthusiast friends tell me there was no snow in Tahoe this weekend. Guess that means the fight for civil rights wasn’t worth it this year). Most people, unless you’re part of that subset of the black community that’s really into the whole brunch thing, are going to take no time out of their day today to seriously reflect on the work or ideas of Martin. Half of America doesn’t get off work, and the other half is too hung over from a rare bout of shameless Sunday night drinkin’...
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Peter: Hello, Pulse readers. By this point, you probably all have grown to know and probably resent the pizza-related ramblings of one Stuart McIntyre, but you may be wondering, who’s that asshole in the picture next to him? Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Peter M. Gunn, truth specialist. You may know me by another name, but in case the FBI is watching (and if we’re doin’ it right, they will be), I would rather you not bring my government name up in here. This is the Daily Truth. This is the stuff that has no business being read, much less being written. We’re taking the bullet train straight to the heart of the issues that matter today: geopolitics, pop culture, and the struggle. Truth is beauty; beauty is ephemeral — so this shouldn’t last long. Stuart:...
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