Would You Wednesday, Multicultural Centers, and a Few Things that Matter to Me.

So there are a few things I'd like to talk about today. First off, the start date for my internship was postponed until friday. Phew... now that that's out of the way (and yes that was important), lets get to some other things. Why is the "caucasian" race never represented in multicultural centers? We always have a plethora of African groups, Asian groups, Latino groups, Afro-Asian-Latino-American groups, but never European or White American groups. My question is why? Now, if anyone reading this says, "those aren't cultures" well, YOU"RE WRONG. But it's more than having equal representation, it's about frame of reference, cultural pluralism, if you will. To have a society where we are truly "equal" we need to change the frame of reference to one that's poly-centered. Without the input of these Euro/White groups, it is, and always will be, how minority groups react to the "dominant" culture; instead of the cultures reacting to each other. For instance, think of two circles, one outer, one inner. The dominant culture illustrates the center, and the minority cultures, the outer ring. This is representative of multicultural centers without "white culture" a mono-centered system. The outer circle (the minorities) is acting/reacting to the center, while the center goes about it's way, caring or not. To change this, we need a system where all cultures input their opinions, where the inner circle has been taken out, and now all cultures are interspersed with each other (a poly-centered system). This system is more efficient than the mono-centered multicultural centers i've personally seen.

Strange Information
1. Apparently, Josh Le (University of Alberta) wore jeans for 15 months without washing them. This experiment was conducted to test bacteria accumulation. 15 months vs. recently washed jeans. Turns out, there wasn't much difference. BIG WIN FOR SCIENCE, DONT WASH YOUR JEANS...heres the link http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/302761
2.Repenomamus was a gigantic prehistoric rat, and fed on dinosaurs (google it).
3.Cannabis was used as truth serum by the OSS in the 1940's (just google it).

RIP Jack LaLanne
Jack Lalanne is perhaps the Hercules of our day (he also made a kick-ass juicer). His feats include (thank our friends at Wikipedia):

• 1954 (age 40): swam the entire length (8,981 ft/1.7 mi) of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, under water, with 140 pounds (64 kg; 10 st) of air tanks and other equipment strapped to his body; a world record.
• 1955 (age 41): swam from Alcatraz Island to Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco while handcuffed. When interviewed afterwards he was quoted as saying that the worst thing about the ordeal was being handcuffed, which significantly reduced his chance to do a jumping jack.
• 1956 (age 42): set a world record of 1,033 push-ups in 23 minutes on You Asked For It,^[20] a television program hosted by Art Baker.
• 1957 (age 43): swam the Golden Gate channel while towing a 2,500-pound (1,100 kg; 180 st) cabin cruiser. The swift ocean currents turned this one-mile (1.6 km) swim into a swimming distance of 6.5 miles (10.5 km).
• 1958 (age 44): maneuvered a paddleboard nonstop from Farallon Islands to the San Francisco shore. The 30-mile (48 km) trip took 9.5 hours.
• 1959 (age 45): did 1,000 star jumps and 1,000 chin-ups in 1 hour, 22 minutes and The Jack LaLanne Show went nationwide.
• 1974 (age 60): For the second time, he swam from Alcatraz Island to Fisherman's Wharf. Again, he was handcuffed, but this time he was also shackled and towed a 1,000-pound (450 kg; 71 st) boat.
• 1975 (age 61): Repeating his performance of 21 years earlier, he again swam the entire length of the Golden Gate Bridge, underwater and handcuffed, but this time he was shackled and towed a 1,000-pound (450 kg; 71 st) boat.
• 1976 (age 62): To commemorate the "Spirit of '76", United States Bicentennial, he swam one mile (1.6 km) in Long Beach Harbor. He was handcuffed and shackled, and he towed 13 boats (representing the 13 original colonies) containing 76 people.^[21]
• 1979 (age 65): towed 65 boats in Lake Ashinoko, near Tokyo, Japan. He was handcuffed and shackled, and the boats were filled with 6,500 pounds (2,900 kg; 460 st) of Louisiana Pacific wood pulp.^[22]
• 1980 (age 66): towed 10 boats in North Miami, Florida. The boats carried 77 people, and he towed them for over one mile (1.6 km) in less than one hour.
• 1984 (age 70): handcuffed, shackled, and fighting strong winds and currents, towed 70 rowboats, one with several guests, from the Queen’s Way Bridge in the Long Beach Harbor to theQueen Mary, 1 mile.^[23]

You will be missed.

WOULD YOU???? 

What would you do to this woman??

                                                                                                

Now what if I told you Alicia Liu underwent sexual reassignment 

surgery (she was a man)?

Would you still do it?

(Phil Defranco originally asked this question)

And Finally

I'll be headed to Atlantic City soon. Maybe I'll make it rich.In 

any event, I'll have pictures to post.

Oh yeah, Obama had a speech and NOBODY listened  (just kidding). 

I'll write on the address later.