Best All-Star Weekend of them all.

This weekend’s NBA all-star weekend cemented in my mind why the NBA all-star weekend is better than any other all-star weekend. Even though, Major League Baseball games are better all the other events leading up to lack flair for my taste.

Almost everything to the three-point shootout to the All-star game itself was entertaining. The halftime show was even better than the Super Bowls’ halftime concert. Rihanna grabbing her crouch every verse was a little much, some would say risqué.

Some major highlights of NBA’s All-star weekend for me were the slam dunk contest, all of the participants brought excitement back to the event, and Kobe Dunking of Lebron during the game. The performances of Bruno Mars, Lenny Kravitz, and Rihanna during the event were great, quite different from the NFL’s Black Eyed Peas crap performance during the Super Bowl.

This is why the NBA All-star weekend is the best weekend of all the other sports.

New Age Revolution

In Cairo, Twitter and Facebook helped aide in a revolt against the government. This represents a new age where young people in the Middle East are becoming more technologically savvy and open to going outside their comfort zone to find people that share the same ideas as them.

The people of Cairo triumph brought new ways of using social media to the world, which helped them achieve monumental goals (like a revolution). Don’t think Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg had this in mind when they made their companies.

Leadership is a privilege not a right.

High school English teacher, Natalie Munroe, caused some controversy when some found out about her blog criticizing her students. In her blog she calls the students out of control and unmotivated in profane ways.

Though Munroe did not use her full name, identify of her students, or school in the blog, these actions lead to her suspension from Central Bucks East High School. Most people have praised her for being honest, but higher authorities at the school decided to reprimand her.

Teachers are in a position of leadership in society. They are held to a higher pedestal than your average 9 to 5 workers. By downgrading her students in public Natalie Munroe made herself an ineffective leader to her employers.

Leaders supposed to inspire and motivate people. How could students go to her classroom knowing she was making fun of them in public? How could they respect someone that doesn’t respect them?  Though Munroe has a right to her opinion the school has a right to do what is necessary to keep the integrity of the school.