Monthly Archives: October 2010

The Facts about “Health Care” … maybe.

Hello, my fans! (Two counts as plural.) It is time again for my totally relevant rants about the world and the way it works. Today’s target: “health care.” What is “health care?” Caring for health? Healthy caring? To care healthily? Let’s find out! In order to do this, I am going out on a limb […]

Love LGBTers the same

Since yesterday happened to be National Coming Out Day, I took the opportunity (albeit a day late) to express my thoughts on the topic. My number one point is: we should love lesbians, gays, bi- and transexuals the same as everybody else. They don’t deserve to be despised or hated. In most ways, they are exactly like […]

Academic chastening

From Wednesday night to Friday afternoon a couple weeks ago, I worked almost exclusively on a paper proposal (abstract) for my History Colloquium class. It was the sort where you have to have your topic, sources, thesis and supporting argumentation—your paper in all but implementation—already decided and articulated in your abstract. I hadn’t done any […]

Please vote

One person saying something is a minnow in the sea. 10,000 people saying the same thing is a leviathan. Don’t be discouraged, you can make a difference. The USA is still a free country. The millions who defy apathy—they are the ones that make the difference. You can be one of them. Bad officials are […]