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more about #education more comments → Mo MoDo: We need to stem this tide of pot humor or else this country will go to seed. more » RandomLunatic: As long as I'm gonna see orange spiders and am allowed to make up crazy songs about robots on the fly, this sounds awesome. [Insert "wait. wut?" here.] more » If_I_Had_a_Poodle: This thread is making me hungry more » Glib and Bitchy: Medical marijuana is a budding field that resinates with many. Once you hash out the legalities and get your rolling papers in order, you can make a k... more » Airvault: Everytime I think of The Times and pot I can't help but consider the possibility of making a bong out of R.W. Apple. more » Matt Cherette: Ew, Michigan State. more » Helio: The video should have been labeled "Higher Learning" DUH! Speaking of Hogwarts, you don't think Nevil Longbottom has the word "bong" in his name for ... more » shadesofmediocrity: Maybe they learned to tone down the canned wit a little after the terrible douchebag article? more » Perhaps Not: Actually, I think this story is now required reading in most Catholic boys' schools, given the epidemic rates of creative masturbation among repressed... more » Spirit Fingers: Ok, well, I'll preface this by indicating that I'm old, and not nearly progressive enough to handle such things. That being said, why not just mention... more » quickqueenof: I was a HS English teacher for many years, and trust me, teh keeds are already into Palahniuk. I allowed them to read him for a self-selected novel pr... more » nozer: "The story -- written for Playboy magazine -- discusses a teenage boy's use of a carrot in a sex act on himself and autoerotic asphyxiation." Uh... I... more » Gawkchalk: What does this story entails? #education more » senatormayer: I'm eighteen and I'm not sure I ever want to masturbate again after reading that story. It's easily the most horrifying thing I've read. It's even sca... more » lukeoneil47: Interesting story, but I wonder what the root case of it was. #education more » -
#scrapingthebowl
How Much Weed Humor Can NYT Writers Roll Into a Cannibis College Profile?
After getting into Tulane, NYU, USC, Michigan State, an Ivy, a safety school, and whatever liberal arts school you threatened your Republican parents with actually attending, there's only one you really need to worry about: Cannabis College. Bongs away. More » -
#schooldaze
Teacher Suspended For Implying Chuck Palahniuk Is Cool
It's the oldest tale in the book of high school cliches: Kids love Cool English Teacher for treating them like adults; administration hates Cool English Teacher for same reason; and then somewhere in there, there's a carrot in the butt. More » -
#goldmanproject
Goldman Sachs' Neediest Cases
In advance of Goldman Sachs' anticipated gargantuan charitable donation calculated to mask the stench of its taxpayer-financed cash bonanza, CityFile rummaged through the past recipients of Goldman's largesse. Guess what they found? Tony, preposterously expensive private prep schools, that's what! More » -
#jumpingtheshark
David Letterman's Vicinity Now "Harm's Way," Says College
David Letterman has crossed the threshold from tabloid guest star to full time villain. Well, if Quinnipiac University's to be believed. More » -
#shootingczars
Meet the Next "Czar" Target
You will soon be hearing a lot about Barack Obama's "Safe Schools Czar." His name is Kevin Jennings, and you will learn that he wants to promote homosexuality, he hates God, and he does drugs. More » -
#sadthings
Penn State Freshman Joe Dado Dead After Frat Party
There's another big campus death. It doesn't appear to be murder, but it definitely qualifies as unfortunate and unnecessary. More » -
#wrongday
Woman's Declaration That She's a 56-Year-Old Virgin Off by One Night
We mentioned this yesterday, but now we've got the video: A woman announced at a Texas Education Agency hearing yesterday that she is a 56-year-old virgin. She thought she was testifying at a hearing about sex education. She wasn't. More » -
#quoteoftheday
An unnamed Texas woman—
offering public testimony today at a hearing before the state's board of education on proposed standards requiring history textbooks to cover Newt Gingrich and Phyllis Schlafly, via Talking Points Memo. -
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#politics
Obama's Next News Cycle: A Breakdown
Barack Obama went into this Labor Day weekend amid a firestorm of controversy over his back to school speech. That firestorm was fanned a bit by Van Jones' resignation. So, what can Obama expect as the news cycle begins anew?
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#badeducation
Right's Asinine 'Indoctrination' War Hurts School Kids
President Obama announced that he will give a speech welcoming America's young students into the new school year. Conservatives, happy to fight about anything this man does, came out swinging against the President's "socialist" intentions. And they're winning!
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#dang
Roxanne Shante's Feel-Good Story a Fake?
Noooooooo: Last week we heard the heartwarming story of how old school rapper Roxanne Shante got her evil record company to pay more than $200K for her to get a Ph.D. Now Slate says the whole story's a fake. More » -
#twitter
Will Sluts Be the End of Twitter?
It's an age-old tale: site becomes popular, slags and hags use it for financial gain, the olds get mad. And Twitter is not immune. Thus, Business Week's Sarah Lacy warns the company to clean up its act. More » -
#education
Ashley Judd To Write Wry Coming-of-Age Novel About Harvard
Famous Judd Ashley Judd has enrolled at Harvard! She is working toward the Kennedy School's Mid-Career Master in Public Administration. That is the program for people who want to, like, run countries or the UN. More » -
#badvertising
'Viral' Movie Ad Fails in Every Way Possible
Marketing whizzes for a movie called I Love You, Beth Cooper figured that a good idea to generate "buzz" would be to pay some valedictorian for a product placement in her high school graduation speech. They were wrong. More » -
#recessionomics
School's Out Forever
The Way We Live Now: Playin' hooky. Schoooooool's outttt forrrrrrrr summer! Yea! School's out forever! Really. They can't afford summer school any more. Too bad that happened right when unemployment hit double digits. No job. No school. Nada. More » -
#productplacement
How Are We Tricking Kids Into Using Condoms Today?
Condoms: Are teenagers sufficiently aware of their existence? Despite being the subject of the world's highest number of bizarre ads, you can never be too sure. The newest ways to corrupt kids' minds, sexually: direct mail, and Leighton Meester videos. More » -
#synergy
Sobbing Columbia Student Says Prof Hated Having to Share
Last night we were baffled by a Columbia graduation fuss involving a professor blocking a student's graduation. It turns to be a classic new media/old media debate, on the ethics of content sharing, according to an email from the student.
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#fromthemailbag
Student-Professor Dust-Up at Columbia
Today was graduation at the Columbia Journalism School, and the ceremonies were tinged with regret. Not just because the news media is imploding, either: there's a mysterious flap involving a non-graduating student and a professor who supposedly breached "standards of communication." More » -
#highschoolsucks
Teenager To Be Suspended For Taking Girlfriend To Prom, Dancing, and Embracing Satan
High school sucks sometimes. Prime example: boy finds date, boy goes to the big dance, and boy probably returns home at a reasonable hour. What happens? Boy gets suspended. More » -
#stats
30 Million Americans (14%) 16 or older are illiterate. Which kinda makes reading Twilight okay.
