PB&J Save Me

The PB&J Campaign has recently reported that the sandwich is not only kid friendly, it also helps the environment.

The campaign website claims that but eating the sandwich a person could, “reduce your carbon footprint by saving the equivalent of 2.5lbs of carbon dioxide emissions over an average animal-based lunch. If you have a PB&J instead of a ham sandwich or a hamburger, you save the equivalent almost 3.5 pounds of greenhouse gas emissions.”

The campaign also claims that by eating the sandwich instead of a meat-filled sandwich could save water and land that is overused.

Finally, thanks to the original article by Trystan L. Bass, I know I have a reason to eat my favorite sandwich. I can help save the world from Global Warming.

Prof. Dalai Lama

The Dalai Lama has just become one of the most famous professor’s in the United States, and he has only been doing it since Monday, October 22.

The 13th reincarnation (which makes him the 14th) of the Dalai Lama, named Tenzin Gyatso, is now teaching a study abroad program for Emory University. Although the class will be held in Dharamsala, India, he still received a ID card to show his authority.

After being asked  how he expects his students to react to his presence, the AP recorded him saying, ”As a professor of this university, I think you should listen to me.”

 

This is not the first time the Holy Man has been in the news in the past few weeks. He has received the highest Civilian honor, the Congressional Gold Medal, which has received much controversy.

Despite the man living to help create a peaceful world, the honor has caused tension between the United States and China. Up until he was six years old, the Dalai Lama was a regular boy from Taktser, Amdo, northeastern Tibet named Lhamo Dhondup. After pursuing his education, he was forcefully exiled from Tibet and moved to India. China now considers him a Tibetian separatist and is offended that the US would award him.

However, this is not the first award he has received. Besides his recent US honors, he is a Nobel Piece Prize Laurette and more recently an honorary Canadian citizen. He has over 80 different awards and honors that were given to him from places throughout the world.

China see’s him as a man of controversy, but if so many people around the world disagree, that means he has to be doing something right.

Dumbledore is Gay

The author of the Harry Potter series told an audience of almost two thousand fans that Dumbledore is gay on Friday October 19.

During her tour of the United States, J.K Rowling has gone to four states and given away thousands of books to benefit schools and libraries; yet it was her last stop of the tour, New York’s Carnegie Hall, which brought about the biggest surprise for fans.

If the books were not a source of controversy before (which they most certainly were), they are now. This will give all the Harry Potter nay-sayers something to talk about. But I ask (for I don’t know if it is a usual thing for a blogger to do, as I am a new blogger), what is the difference?

Dumbledore, a philosopher in children’s literature, as always done what needed to be done for the greater good. Now, because he has been outed, he makes news headlines. He may be a fictional character, but this is something that is often done in our society.

The social norm is for a man and a woman to be together. Why is that? Why can a man not be with another man, a woman with another woman, or any other queer relationship exist without it being a social taboo? Perhaps these are questions that only queer theorists (yes they are real, it is not a comment meant to insult) can answer. But what we as individuals can do is look at what this book teaches.

If one were to say that it is not socially acceptable for a queer relationship to exist because only a man and woman can have a child, Dumbledore, and plenty of non-fiction individuals, have thousands. He is after all, for the first six books of the Harry Potter series, a headmaster.

If one were to say that the child would grow up queer in a queer household, that is point blank stupidity. The qualities that the students of Hogwarts wanted to take away from Dumbledore was his knowledge and support for equality. There was no indication that he was ever with a student and influenced them to be gay like him.

Dumbeldore, according to Rowling, was in love with Gellert Grindelwald, a man that he would soon defeat in an epic battle. His loves led to his sister’s death. “Falling in love can blind us to an extent,” Rowling said.

The argument can, and unfortunately will, go on; however, I ask again, using the example of Dumbledore, what is the difference if it was a straight man fighting a straight woman? Would the story have been different? They were two lovers fighting.

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