Woohoo! We have a waxing crescent moon (17% full), and it’s April 9th (4/9), 1749 is the original founding date of Penn, so that must mean it’s April Fool’s at the DP!
No pranks from me today. I swore them off after watching this.
Anyway, believe it or not, the best part of the DP’s joke issue isn’t the HILARIOUS articles that give even The Onion a run for its money. No, it’s the clueless comments that people post in response to them.
As you may know, a very small minority of commenters are stupid and belligerent. Never is this made so apparent as in the DP’s annual joke issue, which came out today.
Take this gem from a concerned Whartonite regarding a quote from Executive Editor David Lei:
Wow. “How am I going to fill my resume and get a job at Goldman Sachs…my only other source of income is some crappy newspaper job…”
I’m in Wharton, and I’m still embarassed by this guy’s comments. Hope his “creppy newspaper job” wasn’t at the DP, or he might be out of that, too.
Perhaps he should be more concerned about making sure that his clients’ accounts are secure.
Satisfyingly riddled with spelling errors, but disappointingly un-vitriolic.
What better way to pump up the idiocy than to look to politics? Here’s one reader’s indignant response to the “news” that Penn Democrats are switching their endorsement from Obama to Clinton:
Many eons ago I opted for Northwestern, Columbia and then Cambridge in the UK, turning down University of Pennsylvania twice, as I had been told it was one of the most racially insular of the Ivy League schools.
Your immaturity in backing out of the Obama endorsement confirms this.
There is absolutely no one more polarizing than Senator Clinton; never mind dishonest and megalomaniac. Have you not noticed that nearly all of the Republicans crossing the floor are heading towards Senator Obama. You are dooming us all to a John McCain presidency.
…and as for Rev. Wright, he only said what ALL of the civilized world said after 9/11. The U.S. can not continue to live badly with the rest of the world and not expect consequences. One would have thought that the broadening effects of a first class university education would have taught you to look at your country with some objectivity.
Additionally Senator Clinton’s determination is in reality a sense of unrealisitc entitlement.
I am deeply disappointed in you all. My two little bi-racial children will go to (multi-cultural) Canada for university.
“Racist America deserved 9/11, and racist Penn does not deserve my bi-racial spawn!” Priceless! Almost funny enough to put me in the April Fool’s spirit. And then I watch this…
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