Daily Archives: February 1, 2009

A Follow-up on Michael Phelps

Andrew Sullivan appar­ently holds a sim­i­lar opin­ion to the one that I voiced ear­lier con­cern­ing the ridicu­lous­ness that is the sports media’s con­cern over Michael Phelps smok­ing pot. Sullivan writes that: Yes, Michael Phelps took a few hits from a bong at a party. He also threw… Continue read­ing →

Barney Frank Speaks Up

Rep. Barney Frank speaks up to a Republican who claims that President Obama’s stim­u­lus pack­age is just a way to dis­guise the largest gov­ern­ment spend­ing bill in his­tory. http://www.youtube.com/v/mSw3QqSF_zU&hl=en&fs=1 Good for him, and I wish more politi­cians in our coun­try would say things like this… Continue read­ing →

The Grand Canyon

  There is no way that enough pho­tos can be taken of the Grand Canyon. When I went back­pack­ing through it for five days I took over 600 and still feel like there’s shots that I missed out on.

Concerning Supreme Court Vacancies

There’s an inter­est­ing arti­cle on the New York Times that is essen­tially spec­u­la­tion (but at least it’s inter­est­ing spec­u­la­tion) about what many see as the inevitable Supreme Court appoint­ments that President Obama will have to deal with. The arti­cle says: “A really pow­er­ful, artic­u­late, moral, pas­sion­ate… Continue read­ing →

Sports obsession

I’m always a lit­tle dis­gusted by the double-standard to which American ath­letes are held. We as a soci­ety expect far more out of them than we would ever expect out of fel­low cit­i­zens and yet the real­ity is that we glo­rify peo­ple like Michael Phelps because of… Continue read­ing →

Advice for college newspapers

As the fea­si­bil­ity of print jour­nal­ism is declin­ing there have been many dis­cus­sions going on con­cern­ing what the place of col­lege news­pa­pers will be in this new econ­omy. Below are a cou­ple links to some inter­est­ing arti­cles that I’ve come across recently con­cern­ing the Daily Emerald: Free… Continue read­ing →