Word: bragging
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John Voelz isn't trying to brag, but it's fair to say he was down with Twitter before most people knew it was a proper noun...
...appear on E!, who tried out for The Real World, who loves it when Gawker mocks him, who has a "Joel Stein" RSS feed tapped directly into his veins, who is writing about himself in the third person. I'm a man who called everyone he knows to brag about his low narcissism score. If I'm not a narcissist...
America's generals love to brag about their all-volunteer Army. That's because they tend to overlook Jeffrey Mellinger. He donned his Army uniform for the first time on April 18, 1972, about the time the Nixon Administration was seeking "peace with honor" in Vietnam and The Godfather was opening on the silver screen. Nearly 37 years later, he's still wearing Army green. Mellinger is, by all accounts, the last active-duty draftee serving in the U.S. Army...
...undergrounds we never knew. My mother is likely to always see herself as a “Sly girl,” but if more groups continue to channel the ideals of early disco into their music as some are now, perhaps she’ll come clean, and brag to my brother that she did quite a bit more than show up to the disco as it lay dying. —Columnist Ruben L. Davis can be reached at rldavis@fas.harvard.edu...
...Hawaii's plantation era, when everyone came from someplace else and pineapple and sugarcane workers needed to get along in order to survive in their new home. So it would be uncharacteristic, they say, for a true son of Hawaii to go to a big city like Chicago and brag about the sun-drenched beaches, tight family ways and tasty food of his home state. Instead, they say, someone like Obama would most likely try to fit in while sticking to the values of his birthplace. Hawaii state senator Clayton Hee, an early Obama supporter, is hardly surprised that Obama...