Word: bummers
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...much our administration stinks and is totally unresponsive to the student voice—from the Corporation to all the bureaucratic bologna in between? Well, yeah, well that’s the same at Yale and any other elite university...so, yeah, that’s just a bummer for us all. Did you know that ‘Yale sucks’ is the most widely used English phrase in Thailand? Did you know that one time, Yale decided to do something cool and it failed? Did you know that I went to Yale once, farted, and I killed...
That's not to say BSG is a bummer; it's thrilling, lyrical, even funny. ("The good news is," a politician says, wondering how to spin the news about Earth, "real estate prices are low.") But it's an adventure of exhaustion, not exhilaration...
...Strange as it may seem, I’m desperate for more responsibility. With section, weekly response papers, and a multitude of other commitments, responsibility can really be a bummer. Billy, however, is the best responsibility I have ever had. I’m even convinced he made me more productive; after all, they say a healthy relationship brings out the best in you. This summer, Billy forced me to wake up early, work out, and get a jump on my day (often, by jumping right onto my bed). Plus, he’s the cutest commitment in town...
...this nebulous new age where the Cold War, which defined the second half of the 20th century, is over," says Kutner. "But the good times are over. The global economy is starting to fracture and it seems like no one is in charge anymore. It's all bummer indicators...
...Which brings us back to the environment, the bummer indicator to end all bummer indicators. If nuclear annihilation was the apocalyptic mainstay through the decades of the Cold War, the eco-apocalypse has clearly taken its place. In some ways, the "Al Gore Scare Machine," as Kutner puts it, is more of the same. Like nuclear war - or like the more fantastical possibilities that Kutner imagines, such as a robot uprising or an unleashed super-plague - global warming will be an apocalypse of our own making. End times stories are tales of sin punished, and climate change is no different...