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TUESDAY
"At least it's not a Monday" -
the official logo of Tuesdays.
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TO YOU IN PART BY GAMECUBE
The official game console of Tuesdays.
WITH
CLOSE CAPTIONING BY SUNTORI TIMES
The official Japanese beverage of
Tuesdays. "For relaxing times, make it Suntori Times."
PROPOSED
DEFENSE SPENDING CUTS
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel is
proposing major cuts to defense spending in the coming years as well as
significantly shrinking the army. Officially, Hagel suggested that we slash the
budget from one hundred gazillion dollars to a measely bazillion dollars over
the next thousand years. Half the country is of course up in arms about the
proposed cuts and have already begun throwing communist and Illuminati
accusations.
MIDTERM
ELECTIONS NEAR
And Congress has officially vowed to try
their hardest to do nothing this session to ensure a peaceful election season.
After 58 years, Congressman John Dingell has finally lost his patience and
retired.
UPDATES
ON UKRAINE
Something happene and then something else
happened and then RIOTS WOOT WOOT and the EVIL DICTATOR WORKING FOR MOTHER
RUSSIA AND FATHER PUTIN RAN AWAY and now something's happening so we can all go
back to not caring about Ukraine again until this all repeats itself.
Articles
Siesta (Fiesta)
By Nessa Garcia (DU Nap-Taker)
Ever since I’ve started
attending Bishop’s, naps have become extremely dear to me. After school, during
lunch, before school (don’t underestimate bus rides), or whenever else I find
the time, I allow myself to take a nap if I need it. However, after I take
these naps, I usually find myself feeling guilty and judgmental of myself. I
mean, my guilty/judgmental-self accuses, aren’t naps just ways to avoid work?
Fortunately,
I eventually accepted that naps are not manifestations of laziness, but
actually, very necessary psychological and physical breaks through out the day.
Now, the next step is to institutionalize them on a national level.
I’m serious.
If
anything, Spain has already been following this system for a number of years.
Naps are not just naps there, but they are “siestas” that shops, restaurants,
and other businesses work around. Sure, it can be seen as a cultural practice,
but I’d argue that it’s just a smart and effective practice worthy of any
nation—especially America.
Technically,
we’ve all been introduced to taking naps in the middle of the day. Then, we had
that necessity ruthlessly snatched from us. Yeah, I’m talking about
kindergarten. Remember the mats? Remember the cool darkness of the room? That
was real. Why did we end that?
In
fact, successful companies like Google have already realized this blunder, and
they allow their employees guilt-free naps in little spaceship-like pods,
simply because naps help people work better. Google, being the trailblazer
company that it is, is smart enough to embrace this fact and incorporate it
into the company’s culture, which promotes employee well-being. You go, Google.
All
in all, America needs to set aside time for a siesta. Yes, we are praised for
our strong work ethic, but lately, it seems that sleep schedules are shifting
and people are sleeping later. Whether this is because of bright screens or
other modern factors, we need to adapt, because now, tiredness is hindering
that work ethic. With a daily nap, that adaptation is possible. Call me crazy,
but other nations have been doing this for hundreds of years and it’s about
time we start.
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