Michael Knowles
Michael Knowles
Recent Stories
KNOWLES AND TAYLOR: MSA demands respect
In his February 20th response to the New York Police Department’s monitoring of the Yale MSA, President Richard Levin paid mere lip service to the founding ideals of our beloved alma mater. As co-presidents of the Mustached Students Association (MSA), we go further and condemn the New York Police Department’s actions as baseless facial profiling.
KNOWLES: It’s time to beat Harvard
This weekend, the Cantabrigian, barbarian hordes will arrive at our city gates to wreak havoc and evil upon the earth, and Elis must be prepared to repel and to defeat them in battle.
KNOWLES: Idle demands for undefined change
The Yale College Republicans’ counter-protest to the Occupy Movement’s proposed indefinite “occupation” of New Haven Green has sparked controversy and discussion, as we intended. The Republican counter-protest, the original invitation for which included the words “incoherence,” “loafing” and “Febreze,” has since been described by a few of our more excitable classmates as “disgusting” and “heartless.” (With regard to the suggestion that we would bring Febreze to our counter-protest, I say for the record: People who sit in parks without bathing for months at a time accumulate offensive odors, and I will never apologize for my belief that hippies rarely smell pleasant.)
KNOWLES: A complaint too far
In their Wednesday piece entitled “Exacerbating Yale’s rape culture,” Title IX complainants Joseph Breen, Alexandra Brodsky, Kate Orazem and Hannah Zeavin have at long last “jumped the shark.”
KNOWLES: Conscience of a coward
As President Obama read from the Book of Psalms to grieving families, friends, and neighbors of the 3,000 innocent civilians murdered in the terrorists attacks of September 11, 2001, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman ’74 published his own reflection on his blog, Conscience of a Liberal.
Knowles: The debt is too damn high
President Obama’s refusal to address entitlement reform, unprecedented national debt and record federal deficits could well cost him his once-loyal youth vote in next year’s presidential election.
Knowles: The audacity of smoke
When I was 15, my mother’s sometime boyfriend visited us on our vacation in Wildwood, NJ.
Knowles: Vote with me
The midterm elections next Tuesday will prove catastrophic for Democrats, and they can blame no one but themselves. Arrogance, obstinacy, and a blind stupidity have alienated this Congress’ former supporters and left them without a leg or constituency to stand on.
Healthcare and cigars don’t mix
Last week, as I sat watching the Glenn Beck show with a fat maduro between my teeth, I discovered that the United States was on the verge of communist insurrection. The situation appeared so dire it actually moved the program’s commentator to tears. Citizen Reid had already pushed America’s death sentence through the Senate, and it was up to Comrade Pelosi to make it the law of the land. Similar satanic coup-d’etats had apparently already come to fruition in Canada and France.
Transcend electric smokes
Smoking is cool. To intentionally ingest toxins that will likely lead to your early demise is to reject this world and its temporal, material pleasures.