In this election season, and probably in most others in the past, we’re told, sometimes directly, sometimes implicitly, that we as citizens must vote. It’s a duty. It’s imperative that we cast our ballots. Democracy depends on it.
Well, this is simply not the case. Suffrage is a right, to be sure. If we are to [...]

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Race. Ethnicity. Faith. What loaded words these are. And they’re everywhere — in politics, in popular culture, in the academy, and even in the religious realm.
I am writing to address a potentially dangerous assumption about these subjects I’ve encountered more than once on our campus. This past week, I was having a conversation with some [...]

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Maybe it’ll some day be the hallowed name of a geographical high point in the presidential candidate’s home state, but it’s a bad name for a bad idea for an already-weak candidate. Augment the lefty-loosy McCain ticket with a pro-choice former Bush cabinet member? I knew something was wonky over at the GOP, but this [...]

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Whatever happened to the Spirit of ‘76?It seems a vote for McCain is a vote for continued rule of America by royal blood. Not to mention a vote for a distant cousin of a Bush!
So much for new blood in the White House, eh?

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I’ve taken up nightly brisk walks again. Usually these walks lead me in a meandering path through the Auburn University campus, and there have been several occasions on which I’ve been terribly thankful that my cell phone has a built-in camera. I thought I’d post the photographic records of some of these occasions, which I [...]

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Mr. McCain says the problem is government spending. He thinks he is going to cut that spending. Yet, is this not the man who said he’d support staying in Iraq for 100 years? Is this not the man who has been so excited about a war with Iran (a war which has already been declared [...]

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So much of the political patter of the day, especially on the left, has to do, in some measure at least, with the “ideal” of equality. Equality of gender. Equality of race. Equality of opportunity. Equality of circumstance. Equality of (insert noun here).It’s just assumed — again, typically by the left, although it has recently [...]

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I am a bibliophiliac. Or is it bibliophile? What’s the difference, I wonder. . .
Yes, this is my confession, and you, the reader, I presume to be the absolver of this petty wrong of infatuation — or at least a worthy, patient listener.
Perhaps I should be ashamed of this affliction — as I am of [...]

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I was once a fan of Fox News. Every young conservative is, I think. With thirty minutes of Fox each morning, you’re prepared, ready to fight the good fight, equipped with all the truth you need to crusade for conservatism!But, needless to say, my sentiments have changed. Fox News has not. It is still the [...]

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I am a fellow of strange interests. I’ll be the first to admit it. I really do wish I were more interested in normal things, like baseball or guitars or the TV show “House”. But I’m not–well, not in the real world anyway.Instead, I find myself in cyberspace spending hours reading up on bizarre and [...]

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