STAR OF THE WEEK: BRianna Karp


Star of the Week

The Associated Press recently ran a story on a homeless girl living in a Wal-mart parking lot who recently obtained an internship at Elle Magazine. In an interview with Mediaite.com she denies that she is being exploited by the fashion magazine, insisting that she has been given a great opportunity. Rather than harp on the fact that she is getting paid 150/month for 24 hrs of work, she points out that interns usually don't get paid at all and that the editor is doing her a great service by giving her special hours and commuting time.
Kudos to her for the positivity and the ambition.
Reminds me of a younger-childless version of the Pursuit of Happyness.
If she can still be ambitious, then there is no excuse for the rest of us. (Specifically me)

I'm going to get bitch slapped, and maybe I will deserve it.

The media, and most of the liberal world has launched an attack on Miss California after she answered Perez Hilton's question concerning whether other states should allow same sex marriage. She stated that she believed marriage should be between a man and WOMAN.
In case you forgot her wording, I put the video below.



Now, after reading Ann Coulter's webpage, I must express that I agree with her, somewhat. ( I HATE TO SAY THAT!!!) It is unfair to accuse miss California of "hate speech." Coulter was right in pointing out that Miss Cali couldn't have sugar-coated her answer or tip toes around the issue any more than she did. Further, she was forced to answer the question, it isn't as if she used the fact that she had such a large audience as a forum to go on an anti-gay rampage.

Now, while I don't agree with her opinion, she does have a right to her own opinion . Many people in this country were raised with the belief that marriage should be reserved for men and women. Should she have lied? Should she have pretend she was in favor of it, just to let the judges hear what they wanted to hear? Should she really sell out her believes for a beauty pageANT Crown? Again, I am in full support of gay marriage. As Chris Rock said, Homosexuals deserve to be as miserable as everyone else! However, I have a friends who have religious beliefs that lead them to disagree with me on that. They are hateful or homophobic. They don't believe that homosexuals should be stripped of all rights. But for some people, tradition isn't as easy to break.

Oh, and in response to the other part of Coulter's column...Puh-lease. We don't hate Palin b/c she's pretty...we hate on her because she's dumb. And Yes, Miss California is pretty, but Paula Jones? She looked like an aardvark.

It's not secret that when looking for a job, it's most often more about who you know, rather than what you know. Which is why, I have been trying to find my way to an Ed2010 Happy Hour Networking event. In the past two years, this has not been an easy task as I have always had to work on Tuesday nights, which is when the events always seemed to take place.
However, for the last month or so, I have been on a "recession schedule," working four days a week. The change has altered my days off leaving me free on Tuesday Nights, and thus able to end.
This event was held at the Justin Timberlake owned "Southern Hospitality" (I'm kinda obsessed thanks to my friend Rachel). While I admit, that right before going I was nervous, I'm glad I went. All though things started of awkward, I was able to find people and break the ice-eventually. It was interesting meeting so many people with similar ambitions and so many different paths. As well as seeing people with doubts like me. Fried Pickles, free drinks and networking-sweet. Plus, one of the dudes I met there lives in Astoria too.