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(04/29/19 5:07pm)
I don’t know how to start this column. In large part, I assume, because I don’t want to write it. My final article for The Daily Tar Heel. This is the last time my byline will appear in the paper, on what will be my final LDOC. When I go into the office the night before this runs to read it over with my editors, it will likely be the last time I walk into the DTH office.
(04/16/19 1:50am)
“Excuse me, what is a furry?” A young woman asked at the Beto O'Rourke campaign event in the Student Union on Monday.
(04/14/19 10:52pm)
HBO’s "Veep" is a masterpiece far ahead of its time. Selina Meyer is, technically, a Democrat, but her political views and morals might as well be nonexistent. Meyer could be a Democrat, Republican, Green Party member, whatever. The humor arises not from her beliefs, but from the dysfunction common to politics in general. It’s for this reason that "Veep's" spiritual predecessor "The Thick of It" was able to utilize the same style of humor in its portrayal of both the British liberal and conservative parties.
(04/05/19 12:59am)
The Editorial Board spent a good 15 minutes debating Greyson Chance at a recent meeting. Fifteen minutes discussing a singer whose most major accomplishment to date is a piano cover of a Lady Gaga song in 2010. Yeah. That happened. And, if we’re being honest, that’s not entirely out of character for our meetings — we talk about pop culture a lot. Our typical routine looks a little something like this:
(03/26/19 12:42am)
The negative effects of excessive use of technology have been well-documented. It’s been tied to poor health, impaired social skills, cardiorespiratory issues and a host of other problems.
(03/25/19 4:25am)
Donald Trump, president of the United States and actor in 3 different films that John Hickenlooper might take his mom to see, signed an executive order last Thursday that now requires any university that receives federal research grants to protect free speech on campus. For public schools, this means protecting First Amendment rights, while private schools, the order states, must simply follow their “stated institutional policies regarding freedom of speech.”
(03/19/19 11:49pm)
Twitter was unusually unified after the tragic mass shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand last week. Celebrities and political figures from all over the political spectrum shared messages of support for the Christchurch community and the Muslim community worldwide. There was, however, one notable exception: Candace Owens, communications director for Turning Point USA, and gaffe-generator extraordinaire.
(03/04/19 4:52am)
Turning Point USA really likes America. No, they love America, goddammit, they love the people and the land and President Trump, but above all else — well, perhaps above all else but Trump — they love freedom, because being free is just so great and we wouldn’t have it without freedom, ya know? Turning Point's Ricky-Bobbian-f*ck-yeah-'Murica-style love for the ol’ US of A is present at any event they put on, but was at truly supercharged levels at their AMERICAFEST party at CPAC¹ this year. They had Rep. Dan Crenshaw. They had Turning Point founder Charlie Kirk. THEY HAD DONALD TRUMP JR. My god! What more could you want from a party!
(02/22/19 4:28am)
Misha Maruf, opinion editor and probable future robot collaborator, took some convincing to let me write this piece. I’ve come out against memes, "The Office" remakes and just a lot of very popular things in general over the course of my time at the DTH, but saying Cosmic Cantina is overrated got me flak the likes of which I hadn’t seen since I said Beyoncé wasn’t all that. Cosmic devotion on the Editorial Board is so fierce — especially from Paige Masten, whose opposing viewpoint you can read here — that I was told writing an anti-Cosmic take would be tantamount to stabbing the Board in the back. To which I said:
(02/14/19 1:09am)
how do you move on
(02/04/19 9:41pm)
“It’s ghost or be ghosted,” the front page of the DTH proclaimed last Wednesday. In addition to being absolutely nonsensical to anyone over the age of 40, the headline, and the story that accompanied it, hit upon a sad truth in modern dating culture: people are jerks and technology has made being a jerk easier.
(01/25/19 12:26am)
The great Catholic thinker G.K. Chesterton once quipped, “’My country, right or wrong,’ is a thing that no patriot would think of saying. It is like saying, ‘My mother, drunk or sober.’”
(01/25/19 1:06am)
Okay folks, strap on your tinfoil hats and hunker down cause it’s time to talk about the rising threat of Big Business and the surveillance state. Now take your tinfoil hats off — really, you actually had one? Weirdo. — because this isn’t some paranoid conspiracy; this is actually happening, and yet we’re barely paying it any attention.
(12/05/18 5:44pm)
As this is my final paper as opinion editor, the Editorial Board pitched an idea for my last hurrah: a roast of the members of our Board. Not sure I was up for the task — and not appreciating that I was being compared to Michael Scott in a lot of analogies people were making — I counter-proposed that we all roast each other, in what we’re calling the DTH Edit Board Secret Santa.
(12/03/18 12:09pm)
My earliest memory of The Daily Tar Heel comes from my first year at UNC, when in a Quick Hits segment of the opinion page one week I was accused of trying to destroy academic freedom (or something along those lines, unfortunately I haven’t been able to track down the paper online).
(11/29/18 5:23am)
(Editor's note: Before reading this article, read the opposing viewpoint by Paige Masten)
(11/16/18 6:06am)
Today, the members of the General Conference on Weights and Measures — described by Wikipedia as "the supreme authority of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures," a sentence so aggrandizing I suspect it was written by a member of the General Conference — will gather to vote the kilogram as we know it out of existence. The International Prototype of the Kilogram, the metal cylinder that served as the standard for weight for 129 years, is going to be done away with and replaced with a new, more exact standard based on the Planck constant, which is some scientific thing based on something or another that blah blah blah doesn’t ever change because blah blah blah and will lead to more precise measurements. It's all super scientific and incredibly boring to anyone who isn't a member of the (read in booming voice) SUPREME AUTHORITY OF THE INTERNATIONAL BUREAU OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
(11/09/18 3:54am)
Meet Alec Dent, the Opinion Desk Editor of The Daily Tar Heel.
(10/17/18 4:59pm)
There is a group of people who live among us, but are not like us. For all appearances, they’re just the same as everyone else. They look like us, they sound like us, they walk among us without turning heads or drawing attention to themselves. But they are not like us. And this October, once again, they’ve come out from the shadows and revealed their true colors to the rest of us.
(09/24/18 3:59pm)
First Amendment Day is upon us once again, and students at UNC will have the chance to learn more about our First Amendment freedoms, while having a little fun too. Panels, speakers and trivia — it is a fantastic educational experience that I hope you all partake in. There is, however, a slight problem with First Amendment Day.