The sports world may soon have other Seaus to root for. Overlooked, understandably, in the wake of Junior Seau's tragic suicide last week is the number of athletically talented young relatives that he leaves behind: His nephew Micah Seau is a freshman linebacker at San Diego State; daughter Sydney, a senior at The Bishop's School in La Jolla, Calif., will join the volleyball team at USC, her father's alma mater, in the fall; and 11-year-old son Hunter is smitten these days with golf, hitting the links with Junior as recently as April. But most notable is Seau's lacrosse-playing son, Jake, who picked up the sport in seventh grade and who says he bonded with his father over learning the game's intricacies. A 16-year-old sophomore at ... Continue reading →
Here is a tweet that Gawker writer Max Read retweeted a few days ago. RT @DavidWinkies: @max_read actually if you call a lawyer and say you're white a dude and str8, they say you have no case #truestory— max read (@max_read) May 23, 2012 So, sort of a backstory, to begin. Last week brought us two Internet rumpuses regarding and/or demonstrating an especially privileged kind of blindness/obliviousness/ridiculousness. One was TED curator Chris Anderson's flabbergasting decision to withdraw a TED speech about wealth inequality on the grounds that it was "too political." The other, John Scalzi's head-patting essays on Kotaku, comparing straight white male privilege to playing the game of Life, as it were, as if on the easiest setting of a video game. Thus it ... Continue reading →
19-year-old entrepreneur Eric Simons spent two months secretly living at AOL's Palo Alto, Calif. campus, sleeping each night on a couch like this one. (Credit: Eric Simons) It was 6 a.m. when Eric Simons was jolted awake by the yelling. After working until 4 a.m, the 19-year-old entrepreneur had finally passed out. A few hours of sleep would help with the day ahead. But unlike most people working at AOL's Palo Alto, Calif., campus who were surely still hours from showing up at the sprawling complex, Simons was already there. He'd been living there for two months, hiding out at night on couches, eating the company's food, and exercising and showering in its gym. And now, with an angry security guard bellowing at him, it ... Continue reading →
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