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The Lower Merion School District, George Orwell, and the Disintegration of Rights

Riverfield kids, heads up! Your computers might be used against you.
So, have you heard the news about the high school in Pennsylvania that bought their students MacBooks, completely free of charge? Sounds awesome! Who wouldn’t want a free MacBook? In this case, I don’t know a single person who would want these laptops.
The laptops were [...]

You lost me, but I’m back now

March was a really long time ago. It was also when my last post was. I’m sure you’ve been diligently F5′ing the entire time, so allow me to extend a heartfelt apology. You may now rest your itchy fingers.
Almost every person on the internet will excuse an absence by claiming that they’ve “just been really [...]

Wall-E thoughts

Tonight, my family and I watched that little Pixar film called Wall-E. We don’t typically watch movies, but my mother has taken a proactive effort to family bonding through family movies. In other words, that means I get to catch up with films that have otherwise passed me by.
Thus bringing us to the title at [...]

Commissions

Thanks to the actions of a few morally bankrupt investors, my family, the same one who were anal about saving and buying cheap even at the top of the market, has now officially hit hard times. Since I can’t get a real job until I turn 16 (in which I will be applying for an [...]

Fun with Gender Identity

Wikipedia is, next to the Wheel, one of man’s greatest inventions. There are a few people who disagree, claiming it’s “imperfect” and the information contained therein is “inaccurate”, but you know what? I don’t cite Wikipedia when writing an in-depth essay. That’s not the point, either. The point is, there is a wealth of mankind’s [...]