I was going through a blog written by a gentleman named Tom McMahon, a conservative who I don’t often agree with but still enjoy looking at from time to time, and he had this one entry which was talking about a news story where a writer named Jonah Goldberg, a writer for the National Review, […]
Talk about being dismayed. I had always seen December as the season where people pull together the most and forget about the differences that their lives have, for the most part. Then I come across this story on CNN about the Tufts University student newspaper printing a parody of O Come All Ye Faithful, instead […]
(originally published August 5th, 2005) Today is the 60th anniversary of the first atomic bomb dropped on a city, in this case, Hiroshima. By last count, over 240,000 people were ultimately victims of that bombing, which showed the world the power that one explosion can actually have. I have mixed feelings about this initial event, […]
(originally posted April 2nd, 2006) The recent story of sexual assault at Duke University highlights one of the major reasons why racism needs to be addressed. It’s not the part about the alleged assault as much as the perception of “haves†versus “nots†in a community where the cost of going to the university in […]