March 2, 2009
- 10:00 am
By CC Staff
Tags: amy winehouse, arrested, conservative, facebook status, iran, jack osbourne, miley cyrus, ms. north dakota, New York, Northeast, NYU, playboy, porn, religious, snow, snowstorm, thats what she said, twitter, wine
College brings a whole lot of new experiences, new lessons and new people. But it seems that no matter what school you go to, there are same characters on every campus:
With the Go Green revolution, a lot of us have been making the effort to protect and preserve our environment: trees, animals, reservations. Hemp jewelry is so in right now and vintage is your new passion, right?
Well, guess who’s more passionate than you are? The Neo-hippie, better known as The Empathetic Activist.
The Empathetic Activist feels the pain of the distressed, whether it is animal, mineral or vegetable. When a mouse-trap is set up in the dorms, he or she will be there to protect the rights of our furry friends. When soda cans are thrown in the cafeteria trash, he or she will be there to lecture their peers on the perils of cans in dumps around the world. When a tree is cut down to expand your campus, he or she is there screaming murder through blurred vision…or at least collecting signatures to stop the madness.
The Empathetic Activist cares, but not about material objects. While we’re all spending what little money we have on a spring break wardrobe, the E.A. is perusing the local consignment/ thrift/ vintage shops while munching on some tofu, as he or she is also most likely vegan/vegetarian. (“Animals have rights too!”) And when your favorite neo-hippie is not purchasing vegan Birkenstocks, you will find him or her working for social consciousness, whether it be through debates and discussions with friends or long and heated monologues during class. Read More »
Tags: 0bama, activism, al gore, alternative fuel, conservative, darfur, democracy, environment, environmentalism, environmentally friendly products, film, for news, healthy lifestyle, hippie, travel, travel stories, veganism, vegetarianism
January 21, 2009
- 12:30 pm
By Sarah- East Carolina University
There are a few universal truths that everyone who has left their house in the last thirty years are aware of. One is that airplane travel will never be known for the stellar in-flight snacks. Another is that Paris Hilton will never be a productive member of society. A third truth is that nobody will ever be able to agree about Ann Coulter, and her shock-jock style of being a political pundit.
Personally, while I don’t agree with all of her views, I am a fan of Ann Coulter. I admire her courage to speak her mind without fear of consequence, and her strength to continue putting forth her opinion boldly even when a vast majority of Americans absolutely cannot stand her. I disagree with her on some of her stances, and my views tend to be less extreme than hers, but overall I support her whole-heartedly. So, with that in mind, I’m putting forth an opposing argument to the accusation that Ann Coulter is the anti-feminist.
In the early 1900s, when suffragettes were working tirelessly to grant women the right to vote, they were often treated horrendously by the male-dominated world around them. They were jailed for their protests, and force-fed when they went on hunger strikes to protest their treatment. The suffragettes were treated as deviants by society, and derided as being radical lunatics trying to usurp male authority. While they had a base of support from women, they were despised by male authority figures, and other women turned against them. Read More »
Tags: ann coulter, arianna huffington, conservative, feminism, feminist, glass ceiling, hilary clinton, left wing, republican, right wing, slander, suffrage, women, womens rights
January 14, 2009
- 1:00 pm
By Elizabeth-Baruch College

Typically, a strong woman with intellect and the ability to articulate that which is on her mind is a positive thing. Regardless of beliefs or heavy opinions, the ability to reasonably debate should be held in high regard in a world where feminism seems taboo to much of society and many men are still uncomfortable dating a better-read or better-versed woman.
A smart woman in the public eye should be revered. A smart, BEAUTIFUL woman in the public eye should draw even more attention to herself if the data I’ve collected on the correlation between beauty and attention is correct.
And hence we have the problem with Ann Coulter.
She happens to be remotely intellectual, well-read, able to debate, and beautiful. She should, theoretically, be a feminist icon for all strong-willed and curiously-minded women. She should, regardless of party or religion, be a demonstration to society that women can think in a calculative manner and speak freely, as well as intelligently. She should be these things because she is gifted and qualified to be these things.
Yet instead, she exploits her talent and intellect. Instead, she sabotages her own ability to speak on behalf of women. For those of you who don’t know, Ann Coulter is a best-selling author about as relevant to literature as Marilyn Manson is to music. Like Marilyn Manson, the woman sells her books because of shock-value and shock-value alone. Without hesitation, Ann Coulter sums up liberalism as “the opposition party to god.” She has claimed that societal problems are based on single motherhood, that liberalism is a religion, and that democrats are incapable of fighting a war on terrorism. Ann Coulter refers to President Elect Obama as B. Hussein Obama and writes off her blatant attempt to brainwash her listeners into associating him with Saddam Hussein as humor. Read More »
Tags: ann coulter, anne coulter, bad role model, conservative, feminism, feminist, Heidi Montag, liberalism, marilyn manson, media, polarizing, political party, politics, powerful women, shock value, women, women in media
October 3, 2008
- 11:30 am
By CC Staff
If you're like us, you think Bill O'Reilly is hilarious. He freaks out, has no quams about being obviously one-sided, and hates anyone who doesn't agree with him. He's a hot mess, but so many people get their news straight from his mouth that he makes a bazillion dollars every year.
We could never stomach the real thing, but Gawker recently showed us the funny with this Lil' O'Reilly spoof. Turns out there are people in this world who would sacrifice their children's hairline (and their innocence involving adult language) to show a national Internet audience just how criz-azy O'Reilly is.
Tags: Bill OReilly, conservative, conservative news, fox news gawker, funny video, hairline, hot mess, hurricanes, i hate bill oreilly, lil oreilly, News, political humor, Sex, spoof
September 15, 2008
- 12:30 pm
By CC Staff
What do you think? Are “Obama Waffles” just a funny political joke, or something just a little more frightening?
Tags: American News Project, ANP, barack obama, barak, conservative, john mccain, obama, Obama Waffle, parody, political joke, prejudice, Presidential Race, racism, racist, sarah plain, satire, satirist, slur, waffles
August 31, 2008
- 2:30 pm
By Jess - NYU


As I continue to try and wrap my head around Sarah Palin, the GOP’s newest Vice Presidential pick (“a woman making strides toward the white house, good!”, “a woman who thinks the government has the right to tell her what her reproductive rights are, bad!”), a few wayward comments flying around the internet and media have gotten me really confused. According to sources, Palin is on record stating that global warming is not man made, and that polar bears aren’t endangered
…What?
“A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location.” Palin stated as early as a few weeks ago to a conservative magazine for it’s September issue. “I’m not one though who would attribute it to being man-made.”
As a moderate liberal, I can often support Republicans and Independents, as long as I believe their brain is in the right place. The thing is…denying humans have anything to do with global warming, and working to keep polar bears off the endangered list goes beyond politics and veers into …well…complete and utter wrongness. Read More »
Tags: Alaska, alaskan oil, an inconvenient truth, conservative, endangered species, environmentalist, extinction, global warming, GOP, hillary clinton, Independent, mccain, NASA, oil, polar bears, politics, republican, sara palin, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin doesnt believe in global warming, vice president
July 1, 2008
- 3:30 pm
By Jess - NYU

Vanity Fair recently came out with “Hollywood’s Next Wave” of teen superstars, and besides the fact that at 25 I already feel too old to know who half of the kids are (25! Too old!), there was one other tiny piece of information that made me feel a little strange. Out of the 28 teens featured in the article, 2 of them were something other than Caucasian.
Either Young Hollywood has systematically sorted out all of its ethnicity, or Vanity Fair is straight up stupid. Read More »
June 17, 2008
- 3:30 pm
By Gemma - NYU
When I tell people that I was raised with no religion, it’s usually met with a certain amount of skepticism. I never realized what an anomaly it was until I moved away for college, and childhood stories, stories from home, were a matter of course in the ‘getting to know you’ conversations, and bitching about abandoned family religion was a hot topic.
“Never? You’ve really never been to church? What about Christmas? Easter? Seriously?”
Nope, never means never. At the age of 18, I had never sat in a pew and attended a church service. We weren’t high Holy Day Jews, or Easter-only Catholics, or even Unitarians in it for the social aspect (as my Dad was raised, until he was given the option to stop going around age 12). American demographics being what they are, my exposure to religion was haphazard, but fairly broad. I had friends of many religions, though I was too young to really understand what that meant, beyond a weekly time commitment. More importantly, I knew no one for whom it was a problem that I didn’t believe, just as I didn’t care if they did.
Even with this lack of Christianity, Christmas was (and is) a big deal in my home. A tree with an angel and packages and cookies and friends and family, the whole nine yards, the family tradition. Looking back, it’s odd that we had tiny creche figures that we got to remove one at a time from our daily advent calendar, complete with baby Jesus, but it was part of the package. We believed in the story, but that was as far as it went. I knew that Jesus was a good guy, a leader of men, but…he can’t be the son of God if you don’t believe in God. Read More »
Tags: Bible, christmas, compassion, conservative, fellow man, george w bush, high holy day, liberal, religion, religious instruction, skepticism, unitarians
July 16, 2007
- 11:30 am
By Jess - NYU
There’s no doubt our culture has been stuck in a pit of hypersexuality for some time now. And there’s also no doubt that women are trying to figure out their place in this sex-driven society; do we embrace the attitudes men have long carried with them, use our sexuality to gain power, flaunt what we got? Do we make a sex tape and laugh about it, or pray to God to keep us pure until Prince Charming arrives in his black SUV?
Wendy Shalit, author of the book “Girls Gone Mild”, claims a new revolution is upon us, and that revolution abhors sex tapes, preferring to wait for Mr. Charming instead.
In her book, Shalit claims “the young women [of] today, put off by our hypersexualized culture, are reverting to an earlier idea of femininity. They wear modest clothing and even act with unbrazen kindness. They don’t mind abstinence programs at school, and they prefer a version of feminism based on self-respect rather than sex-performance parity. They also take matters into their own hands when craven adults neglect to object to the objectionable.”
The older generation of mainstream feminists, Shalit says, “are so committed to the idea of casual sex as liberation that they can’t appreciate or even quite understand these younger feminists.” She goes on to say women who advocate casual sex “just don’t understand that pursuing crudeness is the problem, not the solution.” Read More »
Tags: Abercrombie and Fitch, conservative, feminism, girls gone mild, modest, patty duke, porn, repression, sexuality, wall street journal, Wendy shalit