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Attack on Vick is based on emotion

The world must be in a state of conflict for people to have opportunities to validate their lives. Therefore, what people truly need is someone to be mad at. People would rather have someone to be mad at than for things to be set right. If things were set right, there would be no conflict. [...]

Players proven guilty without a trial

The most American of sports acted in a very un-American fashion on April 21. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell laid a suspension on Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger. Roethlisberger was accused of sexually assaulting a woman in a Milledgeville nightclub on March 5.  Pardon me, Herr Goodell, but I’d like to remind you of this concept [...]

Video games teach more than violence

The latest studies indicate tomorrow’s psycho killers are being trained not in some dank Saudi bunker, but in our very own living rooms. A statistical analysis of 130 studies from the U.S., Europe and Japan suggests playing violent video games increases aggression and decreases empathy. Video games have long been a boogeyman to many interest groups [...]

PRO: University must tighten belt during tough time

They swarm in every visible direction. Frenzied beasts with gnashing teeth and an appetite for blood flail about with reckless intent.  A thunderous din arises from their throats, but the only language they can speak consists of manically infuriated babblings. Am I reading from the latest zombie apocalypse screenplay?   No, this was the reaction [...]

No ‘rhyme or reason’ to a sense of beauty

This I know is true: shampoo stings your eyes, Earth is round and I’m ugly as hell by conventional standards. I won’t sugarcoat it. I have the physique of a second-grader. My smile looks like a Picasso painting. My eyes are bloodshot from incessantly playing on Xbox Live with kids in Mexico (anyone know what [...]

Regulating tanning not government’s place

You idiot! Why did you pick up this newspaper? The razor-thin edge of the page could cut your finger. The wound would leave you susceptible to infection, which, if left untreated for a few years, would kill you! But no. You heroically laugh in the face of danger and continue reading. I cannot dissuade you [...]