California Polytechnic University, more affectionately known as Cal Poly, is located here in lovely San Luis Obispo, California, intergalactic headquarters of IHateTheMedia.com.
We picked up a copy of the school newspaper, The Daily Mustang The Mustang Daily, at newspaper rack the other day and got a lesson in how our tax dollars are being spent.

A special Valentine’s Day article was headlined “Blow his mind with a classic blowjob.”
The story noted that the writer “Caitlyn Harkins is an English sophomore, Mustang Daily copy editor and sex columnist.” Some of Harkins’ other masterpieces include “A look at nature’s Rubik’s Cube: the clitoris,” “For your viewing pleasure: a closer look at porn” and “Spice up your vocabulary with dirty talk.’
We’re pretty sure that Catilyn’s column makes her a very popular girl and that she rarely spends a Friday night home alone. But we’re far less confident that California taxpayers would consider a hardcore sex advice column in a college newspaper to be a reasonable use of their hard earned-money. Is this really the kind of journalism training we expect from a major university?
That being said, IHateTheMedia.com does have an internship available, Caitlyn.
Source: Mustang Daily
This post was last modified on January 26, 2021

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So...., is this Caitlyn Harkins a classicly trained girl or a wannabe? FYI for Caitlyn; if you are cute then turn on the lights and let the guy watch, if you are ugly, do him a favor and turn off the lights.
What do walking a tight rope and getting a 'classic blowjob' from Caitlyn Harkins have in common?
DO NOT LOOK DOWN!!
So, just curious, how's the "internship" idea going over with Mrs. Administrator and Mrs. Editor?
Funny you should ask. Every once in a while we worry that we may have gone too far, so we actually ran the last line of this story past the wives and the Administrator's 20-year old daughter before we went with it. They all laughed and said, "Go for it." The line, that is, not the internship.
But we think that if we actually proposed an internship program, the wives would just roll their eyes, shake the heads and ask each other, "How did we end up with these morons?"
I'm thinking that it'd be more of a thrashing noise.
Man, I'd like to run a few lines past the Administrators 20-year old daughter!
Please, tell me she inherited her Fathers good sense, and is not a liberal.
relax, thumbs down! it was a joke.
Both my kids are in college and still manage to be conservative. And most their friends are conservative.
Same here. Except I'm a college student, libertarian/conservative, and I don't have any friends.
Although it's always a funny day when the liberal activists take to the campus.
Wasn't it Hillary that said it takes a village to raise a child? I always did think she was, and is, full of crap. It takes a parent to raise a child. It's all in how they are raised, sounds like ya'll did a good job.
Mr Administrator, You're the victim of Liberal rule #1. Attack the source when the facts are inconvenient.
I'm sure her dad is proud.
What makes a person a "sex expert" anyway? Because guys always let her gobble their knobs and say it feels good? Hint: we always say that because it increases the chance of getting one in the future AND a bad BJ is better than none.
Good lord.
There's no such thing as a bad BJ.
Willing to throw myself into the research project, Professor Hotness. Just don't put me in the control group.
This article's premise is completely flawed, but maybe that's why you aren't a journalist. Columnists for the MD are not paid for their work, therefore no taxpayer money is going to produce a sex column. But if we're on the subject you might want to check out... oh I don't know, every other public university's newspaper website.
Sorry TJ on the BJ article. The CSU system in California is funded by tuition and taxpayer dollars. That's what pays for the journalism department and the Mustang Daily printing costs. If there were no Cal Poly, there would be no Mustang Daily. Her status as paid or unpaid is immaterial.
Wrong again, the MD sells advertising and maintains itself that way. Thanks for playing. If you don't want to support the MD, then don't go to the places that it sells advertisements to. That's how the free-market works... Thought you conservatives were pros at that.
Again, you miss the point. The small amount of money the ads bring in do not pay for the everything that goes into the publishing of MD. I used to be a print publisher, I know the costs.
Thanks for playing.
There is no free market anywhere in the public education system.
Don't let the facts get in the way of your opinion. The Mustang Daily, in fact, does pay for basically everything. But, I guess that's why you're a blogger.
Also let me give you a lesson in the free market. You don't agree with what the MD publishes (which it has a right to do). Ads bought by local businesses finance the MD. Local patrons finance those businesses. If you don't want your money printing the MD, then don't go to those businesses. Glad we cleared that up, as this subject has nothing to do with public education.
Again, thanks for making yourself look silly, not that your readers will notice.
Fine, TJ. You know printing, employee, UI, medical, insurance, office, regulatory, legal and accounting costs, plus the these-days heavily discounted local ad rates, better than a 15 year founder of international publishing empire I owned and sold. I give up, You win. I'm done.
Nope I don't. I just asked, unlike you.
You "asked." You "asked" the numbnuts at the college newspaper and they said they pay for 95% of their costs. I would laugh if the stupidity wasn't so painful to watch. Did the college newspaper know how much their building cost to build? Did they have any idea what their utility bills amount to? How much their equipment cost and their legal insurance adds to the university's bill? Their labor is free but did they count the publicly-funded scholarships and taxpayer-financed student loans which allow their free labor to matriculate? Get a clue.
One last comment, which I brought up earlier and have to repeat to you. You are not counting the cost of the journalism dept and all the other benefits of being part of the school, without which the paper would not exist, and could not exist profitably.
Regardless, it's content unfit for a school paper.
Are you serious? Major newspapers like the New York Times and Boston Globe can't make enough money to support their costs, and you think a college newspaper is self-supporting?
Oh wait, you said "basically everything." I get it now. You know you're wrong, so you're going to take the cowardly way out with pusilanimous backsliding and vague statements instead of just admitting anything. Good move.
No, I just didn't want to put too many numbers in my post and confuse y'all. The MD pays for 95 plus percent of it's costs and that is a fact. The scale of a college newspaper and a national one is far different, it's apples to oranges.
Where are you getting your facts? Sounds like you're using Stephen Colbert's gut method. I, in fact, went to the source. Thanks for allowing me to clarify.
Have you got a "stress reliever" pad taped you your wall? You know, so you know where to bang your head to relieve the stress that comes from trying to educate really dumb people? Try one, they help!
Looks like the swallows have moved from San Juan Capistrano to San Luis Obispo.
The entire concept of "liberal-ism" is based on ad hominem.
Its the number one resource of the liberal movement.
Without it Obama would never have become president and liberal-ism would have died out in the 60s.
"Barack Obama’s Safe Schools Czar Kevin Jennings founded the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) in 1990. In 2007 Kevin Jennings was paid $273,573.96 as the executive director of GLSEN. Recently he was appointed by the Obama administration to run the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools in the US Department of Education"
http://biggovernment.com/jhoft/2009/12/07/fistgate-barack-obamas-safe-schools-czars-2000-conference-promoted-fisting-to-14-year-olds/
Since she talks like Whoppi; maybe she looks like Whoopi. Which means, she probably does sit at home alone on Friday nights.