Category: Opinions

By now you’ve heard that Notre Dame football star Manti Te’o has a fake dead girlfriend. Did he perpetrate a hoax or fall victim to one? Did the media fail to do its job? These are interesting and important questions, but the most troubling revelation may be what the story reveals about ourselves. The online...

It started well. Incredibly well. A senator from Utah mentioned to me afterward that the President’s introductory paragraph “could have been written by good ‘ole Dr. Arnn.” However, just like the weather, it all went downhill from there. The remainder of the speech could be compared to an ugly casserole, full of watered-down Dewey, Croly,...

The inauguration was not Obama’s party. I didn’t go to celebrate his policies of change and I didn’t go to affirm his “visions of hope.” I went because it was only the 57th time in world history that power of such magnitude was transferred or reaffirmed peaceably between opposing parties. Men and women who clash...

S ometimes I stop what I am doing and daydream about a class I took seven months ago. I think about the manatee that swam by me in Zane Grey Creek, fishing for sharks with my friends after hours of identifying snails in the lab, the fresh seafood I mowed on at Whale Harbor Buffet,...

Ho, ho, ho! Merry holiday! Each holiday season, it seems that more and more public locations are putting up “holiday trees,” instead of Christmas trees. Unsurprisingly, there is no visual difference between the two decorations; only the name differs. Last year, Republican Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee proclaimed that the state’s Christmas tree would be...