Author: yonghokim

first, I read this

If you’re too much of an impressionable idiot to watch “Sideways,” then don’t.
thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=sideways

Now every idiot who has seen the movie has suddenly become a wine expert, and Pinot sales have shot through the roof. NPR interviewed a guy who said, and I quote:

I used to drink merlot, and after I saw the movie, they say “don’t drink merlot,” so [now] I’m drinking pinot noir…
Click here to listen (226k mp3):

You shallow idiots, get your own opinion.

then, this

43things.com (via salon.com/tech/feature/2005/02/08/tagging/index1.html gatorlog.com/linked/archives/2005/02/eeeee_ieeeeii_i.php gatorlog.com/mt/archives/002158.html#comments 그리고 실마리를 놓친 별주부뎐 글)

ahem.

Oblivio. Laws.
oblivio.com/archives/04122101.html

me. The Defects and Imperfections of my School
b.yokim.net/145

news. Macalester College Trustees Approve Financial Aid Changes
macalester.edu/whatshappening/press/2004/011105.html

I’ve been afraid of actually implementing (or advising for) change, wherever I belonged. When I wrote the harsh (and well founded, to my immediate experiences at least) critique of high school education, my teachers discussed it in the faculty meeting and brought it back to me enthusiastic about new opportunities and seeking for advice on how to improve upon it. (How do you foster creatvitiy?) Back then, I was shocked/afraid of their reaction. My critique was an angry rant at a very real social fact. Why are our 40 hours/week of high school life draining to waste? Because you chop off their creativity, I said. How do you encourage it? I don’t know.

Criticizing institutions close to yourself (family, school, work) is a dilemmatic choice. There’s more meat you can slash at, but because it’s a bilateral relationship, you also owe things to them. Last year, late at the DNBAM, I started feeling a deep guilt towards my own academic performance (read: low grades – or, 1.5 GPA) and my activism. Can I really criticize the institution at which I am doing poorly? If someone says, “oh, but you’re just making a big fuzz to avoid tihnking about how you suck at classes”, isn’t she right?

RE: Intellectual Diversity at Macalester. Joseph Schultz, Mac Weekly Feb 18
themacweekly.com/article.php?article=72

Good call, Mr. Schultz. Let’s promote “political diversity”, and you lay it out by splitting the entire 1,800 of the Macalester population into democrats and republicans. I’m not even talking about international spectrum of political ideas, I’m just saying, hey, what ever happened to the 5% that voted green in 2000 (of course they abstained in 2004 because Kerry supporters scared the hell out of them), who in themselves were not purely Green but consisted of a conglomerate of commies, socialists, nazis and the like? What is it with assuming class-elite transnational students are “liberals”? What is it with assuming the opposite of liberalism is conservatism? When you pull a bunch of people you don’t know, observe what they do, and give them a label according to your own heterodoxic understanding of the world, it’s called ethnocentrism. Or, ignorant white suburban tolerance.

Brushing personal, everyday formations of political ideas aside, I’m the ultra-right, and these U.S. “new” conservatives are just a joke. What’s the deal with getting nonwhites in office? What’s the deal with assuming capitalism is “the thing to do” for conservatives? What’s all this rambling on your BIPOLAR diversity? Excuse me, did Fukuyama said that history was ended, well back in 1990?

Dude.

Repeat after me:

Fucking do fucking not fucking classify fucking nonresident fucking aliens fucking with fucking your fucking categories.