The Michael Vick dogfighting case, and all of the attention on dogfighting and its attendant practices, show one thing very clearly: As a society, we have no idea what we think about animals.
My grandparents own a farm four hours north of East Lansing, outside of Boyne City. Growing up, every holiday break from school or a birthday meant another trip to the farm.
The United States is the fattest nation in the world. Diabetes affects more than 20 million Americans, 90-95 percent of whom have Type 2 diabetes, which is preventable through healthy diet and exercise. The most economical alternatives for a meal are usually fast food franchises which are, by anyone's standards, incredibly unhealthy.
For a very long time now, Christianity has been marketed as a religion of love. Not only is it a religion of love, we're told, but also it is a religion of redemption and forgiveness.
Despite veto threats from the president, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a new and improved version of the multibillion-dollar farm bill, the core of the country's government farm program that sends subsidies to U.S.
The summer of 1967 - some remember it as the Summer of Love. For others, the thoughts of a carefree, idealistic summer are pushed aside by thoughts of a more somber nature. Those thoughts center around burning buildings, police brutality and violence based primarily on race. This week marks the anniversary of the civil disturbance in Detroit. The flash point of the riot occurred when police shut down an after hours club, or a "blind pig." But the reasons for the riots run much deeper than that. Racial discrimination, segregation, poor housing and disenfranchisement all played important parts in the city's explosion that July. For years before the riot, Detroit was undergoing a drastic change.
An energy bill without improved fuel economy standards simply won't make a serious dent in our oil dependency or help consumers at the pump.
People have long complained about the supposed decline of American morality. They play a game of connect the dots with pornographic images, newspaper headlines of school shootings, rampant sex in high school, bad manners and the swindling coworkers to an overall picture of Sodom and Gomorrah.
The House and Senate have passed bills that could dramatically refigure the financing of a college education. Out: The $18 billion to $19 billion in subsidies the federal government would have doled out to companies that provide student loans. In: $17 billion to $18 billion in aid to students. Differences between the House and Senate bills will have to be worked out in a conference committee.
I recently had the pleasure of traveling to Washington, D.C., New York and Chicago. As someone who spends most of his time in Detroit, it's only natural I make some comparisons between these big cities and our state's own urban cornerstone.
Recently, publisher Merriam-Webster announced 100 new entries in the new edition of its collegiate dictionary.
Prostitution should be legalized and destigmatized in the U.S. Out of almost 15 million arrests in 2005, an estimated 84,891 were for prostitution or commercialized vice, according to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
Last month, Gov. Jennifer Granholm stood in the middle of a field in East Lansing and spoke wonderfully of MSU's role at the forefront of biofuel research, thanks to the largest research grant ever.
We can be a pretty lazy nation, but one thing that gets us riled up is our health, right? When a baby is sick, look out.
College students in blue states have an easy time being liberal. Especially when they spend a prominent amount of free time in coffee shops discussing the horrors of corporate America, capitalism, materialism, etc. Writers like Noam Chomsky, Michael Moore and Bob Woodward become iconic figureheads for those who have it right, while conservatism quickly evolves into a two-dimensional ideal harbored by followers of a pope or pharaoh, preaching subservience and doublethink to a single unwavering ecclesiastic doctrine. But upon further thought, I realized that even myself - an environmentalist, semi-socialist, agnostic vegan - found things in common with popular conservative beliefs.
Atheism is quickly joining mainstream American society. If a majority of the population doesn't accept atheism, it can't be for lack of exposure.
Trojan brand condoms recently premiered a new, controversial ad campaign that features a ritzy bar full of thin, beautiful women and giant, personified pigs.
Readers have asked, repeatedly, that I acknowledge some good aspect of religious belief. Religion does offer some worthwhile benefits, of course, like a sense of community and incentive to be charitable, but such things can be obtained without abandoning reason.
ACT, SAT, GRE, GMAT, LSAT, MCAT - I am sure year-round as well as this summer many of us are living in fear of the awful power of the acronym.
How do you turn a job that a Depression-era vice president said wasn't worth a "bucket of warm spit" into a new, fourth branch of the federal government? Elect one Richard B.