Sunday, June 17, 2012

Harvard's H-Bomb

As long as it isn't dropped on Iran....

"Not easy for Harvard grads to say they went there" May 28, 2012|Billy Baker, Globe Staff

CAMBRIDGE -  She does not like dropping the H-bomb, which is how Harvard students and alumni describe the moment they use the name of their university.

It’s a loaded word. And everyone who has ever been a student at Harvard University - the school minted about 7,000 new graduates this month - is acutely aware of the perils of using it. They have been through it many times, seen the bomb explode in different ways....

dropping the H-bomb....

the H-bomb....

the H-bomb....

the perils of exploding the H-bomb....

the H-bomb....  

The casual use of the word bothers me, almost as if it is conditioning you for some future event.

A false flag in some western capital to be blamed on Iran?

Perhaps the most shameless H-bomb dropper of all time is the Toofer character (as in two for one; he’s a Harvard grad and also black) on NBC’s “30 Rock.’’ His Harvard pedigree is always out in front of him....  

Maybe second-most shameless, Globe.

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