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(02/12/17 11:43pm)
The angel shot has been sweeping the feminist internet. If you haven’t heard of it, the Angel Shot is a drink recipe that began in St. Petersburg, Florida. But you won’t find it posted behind the bar or in a drink menu; you’ll find this recipe posted in the women’s restroom. If a woman is uncomfortable on a date, the first thing she’ll usually do is excuse herself to the bathroom, to panic-text her best friend or check to see if there are Ubers around. If you’re lucky, you’ll be in a bathroom in an establishment that sells angel shots. If you go to the bar and order and angel shot neat, then the bartender or other staff member will escort you to your car. If you order an angel shot over ice, the bartender will call you an Uber, Lyft or taxi. If you order an angel shot with lime, the bartender will call the police.
(02/09/17 2:32am)
President Trump ran his highly successful campaign on promises to restore America’s lost greatness. “Make America Great Again” was a brilliant marketing strategy because of its vagueness. There are a lot of conflicting idealized versions of the past that he was able to bring together using it. However, the vagueness of his trademark promise gives him significant leeway to do whatever he wants and claim that it is restoring American greatness.
(02/05/17 4:35pm)
A news story that might have gone under the radar for most people during the run up to the presidential election was the hacking of Yahoo that stole the data of 500 million accounts. At this point you probably feel desensitized to the idea of information hacks, but in Yahoo’s case there are different reasons for concern. Announced publicly in September of last year, the hacking actually occurred two years prior in 2014.
(02/05/17 3:52pm)
What is college for? I don’t know for sure how most college students would respond to this question, but from my conversations and other interactions with hundreds of fellow students, I’m going to posit that the majority view college as a sort of prerequisite to the life they want to live. Or in other words, it’s a period of life one must pass through in order to get to where you really want to go.
(01/28/17 6:27pm)
SEC basketball fans have become conditioned to cringe when they see names like “TV” Teddy Valentine and Pat Adams working the floor. They know what they are getting into — a miserable basketball game filled with an unholy amount of fouls.
(01/26/17 5:24am)
Rolling out from a screen at the right elbow, Sindarius Thornwell received a pass at the top of the key from freshman guard Hassani Gravett, planting and shooting in one motion. With 1:25 in the first half, Thornwell sinks his fourth three-pointer of the night, giving South Carolina a commanding 42-25 lead over Auburn. There is a brief pause in the action for an official review, but the call stands. Lost in the offensive outburst is the fact Thornwell passed Carlos Powell for the No. 7 slot in South Carolina's all-time scoring leaders.
(01/26/17 12:37am)
Like many college students, my dietary practices would at best be considered questionable. Instant mac & cheese, Chik-fil-A chicken nuggets and frozen pizzas are not luxuries but staples of my one-man nutritional wrecking crew. My more health-conscious friends have tried to direct me to the fresh and organic lifestyle numerous times without success. A favorite healthy food mentioned when attempting to convert me is kale. The "Californian lettuce" has practically assumed state vegetable status and has become synonymous with hipster vegetarian culture. Knowing nothing about this magical vegetable, I decided to look up kale to see what all the fuss was about. Turns out, the ultra-nutritious vegetable isn’t as healthy as you might believe.
(01/26/17 1:27am)
In an age of polarization, Donald Trump was an incredibly divisive candidate. He called his opponent the devil and threatened to jail her if he won. His antagonism extended not just to Democrats but to a number of countries abroad, including trade allies like Mexico and fellow NATO members. His victory pleased probably the smallest proportion of America’s population since the "Corrupt Bargain" of 1824 installed John Quincy Adams in place of the popular Andrew Jackson. (Note: Russians do seem to be thrilled with Trump’s victory, which is not reassuring.)
(01/16/17 11:30pm)
Almost everyone has seen the “Got Milk?” commercials on TVs and billboards. These commercials try to educate the public on the importance of including milk in the everyday diet. Not only is milk a source of calcium, which strengthens bones, but it also contains protein, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals and fat.
(01/17/17 1:10am)
Donald Trump responded this weekend to Representative John Lewis’ claims that Trump is an “illegitimate president” by bashing him and his district on Twitter. Trump, in his usual Twitter nonsense, claimed that Lewis was “all talk … no action or results” and that his district is “in horrible shape and falling apart (not to mention crime infested).” Besides the appalling stupidity of bashing a former civil rights leader on the weekend of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Trump very obviously doesn’t know Lewis’ district. We’ve seen this kind of talk from the president-elect before, where he highlights his ignorance on the realities of what life is like in America’s major metropolitan areas.
(01/09/17 1:08pm)
South Carolina fans watching the CFP have a choice. They can root for their eternal rival, or they can root for a program that has a complete stranglehold over their entire conference. Both are overwhelmingly enticing options. Don't curb your enthusiasm.
(01/09/17 3:44pm)
The extreme level of ambiguity towards defining success in college football is unique to the sport. That ambiguity is ingrained in the game's origins. It is part of its beauty. It is also confounding.
(01/08/17 11:36pm)
When my parents first married, they had two years of newlywed bliss, followed by four years in which they had three children. What is notable about these four years, in which the house was crawling with tiny, screaming babies, is that my dad was deployed for almost half of it. My mom was a “housewife” for 14 years before she finally went to work in a career she loved, and with my father's deployments, she did a fair amount of it by herself. However, when my dad retired, it only took three weeks of taking care of the house, raising our puppies and cooking dinner for him to begin to feel taken advantage of.
(01/09/17 2:39am)
After the events of the campaign and the result of the presidential election, it would be easy to place all of our scrutiny on Donald Trump. His opinions have been controversial, and his appointments for government positions have been the subject of endless news coverage. While it is important for us to hold our executive branch to the highest standard, it is equally important to keep an eye on every level of government. As an electorate, we have to exercise our power and influence to make certain that our representatives act in our best interests.
(01/09/17 12:48am)
With logistics for building the president-elect’s wall looking as murky as they ever have, plan after plan is being floated for how it could possibly be funded and completed. Trump’s latest is that we’ll fund it and Mexico will reimburse us for the cost — a plan that essentially has the same internal logic as putting a line of duct tape down the middle of your dorm room and then asking your roommate to pay you back for the tape and all the time you spent sticking it to the floor. But one of the more plausible plans that could be used to cut down on work costs was proposed by a sheriff from Massachusetts: Simply put, we should use prison labor from inmates around the country to build the great Mexican border wall.
(01/08/17 11:45pm)
Last Friday, president-elect Donald Trump said in a telephone interview with the New York Times that financing a border wall with taxpayer money would allow the work to begin more quickly, but he insisted that Mexico "would ultimately reimburse the United States" for its construction. Not only does this statement spark concern that the massive cost of the wall ($5-10 billion by Trump’s estimate, $15-25 billion by actual experts) could fall on the American taxpayer, but it also raises questions regarding the president-elect’s ability to fulfill one of his central promises to the American public.
(01/08/17 11:32pm)
This past week, I ordered an Uber to take me to the Columbia Airport. I have taken several Ubers and figured I knew how the whole process worked. I’ve learned how to make small talk with many different drivers from different backgrounds, with different personalities and from different walks of life. These different walks of life have never wandered past the 65-years-of-age mark, however.
(12/01/16 12:02am)
At 3:55 a.m. on Nov. 29, President-elect Donald Trump tweeted that “Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag - if they do, there must be consequences - perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail!” To label this tweet as yet another middle of the night rambling would miss the major constitutional conflicts Trump’s opinion runs into. In particular, Trump appears to have little understanding of the Supreme Court’s interpretation of both the First and Fourteenth amendments. For a man who claims that he “see[s] the Constitution as set in stone,” he knows terrifyingly little about it.
(11/30/16 7:48pm)
The South Carolina Men’s basketball team is on a quest to prove that they were overlooked and should have received a tournament berth last season. Led by one of the most dynamic backcourts in college basketball, the Gamecocks have thus far shown they not only deserve to make the NCAA tournament, but that they are worthy of their newly received top-25 ranking.
(11/28/16 1:38am)
This November, I went to the movie theater to watch two of the biggest premieres of the year: "Doctor Strange," the 14th movie of the Marvel movie universe, and "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them," the ninth in the "Harry Potter" franchise. Universe building is the new vogue in Hollywood, and studios are jumping on the bandwagon to build and combine fan bases.