This is the 58th time I've written a column for The State News. Sometimes, I wonder if that's a record, but then my friends usually take away the spray paint I've been huffing and I stop caring. This is going to be the last column I ever write for The State News.
Whether you like it or not, America needs an Ohio recount. First, let me get this out of the way: It's unlikely that Sen.
Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan recently warned, "Given the size of the U.S. current account deficit, a diminished appetite for adding to dollar balances must occur at some point." Greenspan, in his adorably cryptic way, was explaining that foreign investors will eventually grow weary of lending money to the United States. The Los Angeles Times reported that in September foreign investors finally balked at taking on more U.S.
I think that my college eligibility runs out when I graduate Saturday. The odds of me finally getting my break and suiting up for the MSU hoops squad is minuscule at best, but that's the hand I've been dealt, and I'm going to cope. This means that I'll never play a minute of college basketball - I'll never get to set one screen, take one jump shot or get to pretend I'm Scott Skiles.
I taught composition at Eastern Michigan University for a few years, and I hated when my students started a paper by quoting the dictionary.
With all of the talk that has been flying around over the last week or so about ASMSU, I feel that I need to clarify a few facts about the organization.
I used to love the environment - then I started driving my dad's sport utility vehicle. It started simply at first.
The public school system in the United States is not great. Many would argue it's not even good.
As forethought to this column, it's important to express that although the election outcome was unfortunate, I believe it's necessary to move forward.
Were you disappointed by Saturday's basketball result? I mean, the Spartans only scored 102 points - two under their season average. What happened to the offensive juggernaut we saw in MSU's first two games when the Green and White put up 104 points against Florida A&M and Wisconsin-Green Bay? The Spartans had six players scoring in double figures against the Rattlers and Phoenix, but only five against the Nicholls State Colonels. No Spartans team has ever eclipsed the century mark more than once in a season before, much less three times, consecutively.
Take your pick - either watch the movie or read the book, but there's a lot of cultural truth in Bret Easton Ellis' "American Psycho." It's not like everyone during the '80s was out killing random people while listening to Huey Lewis & the News, but the culture and music meant little more than novelty. In any other decade, "American Psycho's" anti-hero Patrick Bateman probably would have fared much better. How will our generation communicate or even explain the culture of the 1980s to our own children?
During the Pacers-Pistons game this past weekend, the basketbrawl of the century broke loose. Several fans were injured and nine basketball players suffered harsh penalties as a result of their actions. Ron Artest was hit with a season suspension, one of the most severe penalties ever in the history of basketball. That said, my aim is not to justify who's wrong or right between the fans and basketball players.
In a previous column, "Bush supporters share common thread with fundamentalists" (SN 11/10), I mentioned a study by the University of Maryland's Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA), which found that majorities of President Bush voters were profoundly uninformed, and held erroneous beliefs about election issues and their candidate's policies.
A lot of men need to rethink how they perceive themselves and take into account the biology behind their behavior. In recent years, the number of scientific articles and books relating to genetic influence on human behavior has exploded.
There is no practice more inane, no tradition more vapid and no photo opportunity more whorish than the annual Thanksgiving "pardoning" of the White House turkey. Each Thanksgiving since the days of Harry Truman, the president "pardons" a turkey to a presumably pastoral life of pecking at the ground and looking at things around the farm or forest that move.
Hey, American Dream-totin', rigid-as-hell parents - listen up. Same to you, money-calculatin', class-resentin' college students who have been filled up with the "get a good money job" mantra by the first group. You're missing the ball if you don't care for the value of liberal education.
Hate to break it to you, but your parents can be wrong. You may respect them - you might even love them - but they're not infallible. They're just like you.
I would like to thank the 51 percent of American voters who re-elected President Bush. Thank you for putting a man back in office who favors rich, white men.
"And David put his hand in the bag and took out a stone and slung it. And it struck the Philistine on the head and he fell to the ground." I should have known Saturday's game was going to be a strange one.
A couple of weeks ago, I experienced one of the most horrible pains of my life from my wisdom tooth.