August 22, 2009
Mom v. the Internet
The advent of the Internet dawned with it a plethora of credible sources to aid me in the academic arena. With the dawn of the world wide web ended the age of my mother as an information resource for completing school assignments. Fact-checking afforded me the chance to avoid the reports that detailed how the invention of the vacuum cleaner propelled Herbert Hoover into the White House behind the slogan “Don’t suck - vote Hoover, and clean up America.” Had Google been around, I may have even understood why a biography I wrote - entitled “Jesus H. Christ” - warranted a week-long suspension despite only including the facts provided by my mother, a seemingly informed authority on the topic considering the frequency with which we heard his name in our house.