Tokyo–Admitting that she has failed yet again to memorize the vocabulary words assigned in ESL lesson last week, Shiitake Miyashita, 16, burst violently into tears in your local cram school and spewed a concatenation of angry words in her native… Read More ›
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A Little Bit of Fertilizer is Good: A Qualified Defense of Bullshit
“But bullshit is funny sometimes!” my philosophy professor once said. “No, it’s not,” I retorted. I’ve written a lot about how morally reprehensible bullshit is, but over the years, I’ve come to think that my professor is right: bullshit is… Read More ›
Is this bullshit? Yeah. No? Yeah. No? Who gives a shit. You do? Nah…Well, maybe?
I ran into Mark Manson’s The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck and its summary, Summary of the Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck recently. I’m not done with The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck yet,… Read More ›
Bullshit argument: swearing is a sign of an impoverished vocabulary
After I wrote my previous post about bullshit on my Facebook wall, 37 people reacted to my post. At one point, someone expressed his displeasure for the amount of swearing I do. That would’ve been fine had the person not… Read More ›
Stop the bullshit, please!
Ten years ago, I read Harry Frankfurt’s famous essay “On Bullshit” in an introductory logic course taught by a wonderful professor whom I shall not name for fear of kissing ass. Because of that course, I began studying the topic of bullshit. I wrote an honors thesis on bullshit, and though I ended up writing the second half of the thesis drunk, I still kicked ass and graduated.
Proud student earns bachelor’s degree in copy and paste, has bright future
After struggling for four seemingly Sisyphean years at an accredited university, Christina Moran, 26, received her long-awaited B.S. in Copy and Paste. “At first, I was so scared. My typing speed was 24 words per minute and I often forgot… Read More ›
Student too cool to admit she gives a shit
Confessing to reporters that she really, definitely gives a flying shit about her professor’s lecture, Ellen Degenerate, 21, insists on pretending not to care anyway. “Girl, that thing about Frege’s sinn und bedeutung was fucking dope,” she allegedly gushed in a secret… Read More ›
“Robostitutes” are the new black
Last month, a retired philosophy professor asked for a refund because the sex android he bought from us did not “moan and argue like Leibniz.” Yes. There’s a burgeoning market for that kind of thing. The technicians understood Leibniz’s mathematics,… Read More ›
University installs bathrooms for students to regurgitate facts and flush knowledge down toilet
Saying he wants to prepare students for the job market, Chancellor Elvis Dumbefore of Hogwash College proudly announced the installation of lavatories where students can puke out information and flush away millennia’s worth of wisdom down the toilet. “At Hogwash,… Read More ›
Child suspicious of storks calls bullshit, turns into idiot
When seven-year-old Pubert Babbitt Jr. asked his parents where babies come from, his parents told him about the Stork: “The Stork is a big bird that drops babies into the house,” said Pubert Sr. Thinking that his parents must either… Read More ›