The three-page paper is actually a five-page paper.
"You're joking," I say over the phone.
"Nope."
Scholastically speaking, I don't know that much about art. That's due to the fact that I'm a lazy bum. Sure, I could have taken at least one art history class during my college career, but I didn't. The reasons aren't that good. I didn't want to read a super long textbook with tiny print. I didn't feel like memorizing crap. I didn't want to fill up bluebooks with my newfound knowledge. It hurts your hand to write that much.
Does "selflessness" even exist? It seems that selfishness and altruism come in an inseparable pair, and that even the most selfless acts contain, in themselves, a mode of self-interest.
Consider religion: people doing generous deeds, performing kindhearted, well-intentioned actions - but in the end, these actions are not selfless. On the contrary, they are performed very much so with the self at the center. "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you," reads the Bible (Luke 6:31), for example. Not "do good deeds because it's just the right thing to do," but "hey, you wouldn't like to be treated like that, would you?" Even the foremost document of "selfless" acts contains selfish motives - you want to help people.
Tuesday was a relatively inauspicious day. I woke up. I went to class. I came home around noon and called my buddy to go eat. He had an alternate suggestion, and we ended up drinking lunch. We staggered outside utterly blitzed at two in the afternoon. Since my stumbling was down to a minimum, I walked to the nearest vehicle and used a pistol to bust open the driver's window and, subsequently, his skull.
Many Yolo County residents have ridden down County Road 98 to observe both Putah Creek's wonderful contribution to the wildlife and its demise as a damaged ecosystem. In an effort to improve and preserve the creek's beauty and viability, several independent and campus wildlife groups have teamed up to grow native plants to modify Putah Creek toamorenatural state.
Since Apr.22,serving trays have not been made available to Tuesday diners at theUC Davis dining commons.This move,whichwill continue for at least the rest of the year,is expected to cut water and electricity usage from daily washing and deter customers from taking more food than they can eat.
On selflessnessVirtual unrealitiesMay 8, 2008
Editoral: Human impacts will be overturnedEditorial: Losing trays not worth losing sleepRage Against the bellsA heroic endChildren at playMay 7, 2008
Relationship talkLost and foundMay 6, 2008
Editorial: Hospital foodOn friends, part IIOld dog, old tricksA warm welcomeMay 5, 2008
Questions aboundingGone greenDoggone Walk-a-Thon fundraises for Yolo County SPCAMay 2, 2008
Adam's pathNot-quite-magic school bus
