The Mormon Church has been in a bit of trouble lately. First, they got a bad rap for siccing Mitt Romney on our poor, unsuspecting country. More recently, legions of supporters of gay marriage have been protesting outside Latter Day Saints churches across the nation after Mormon support for California's ...
As a longtime resident of the great state of Kansas, there are typically two questions asked of me whenever I visit another part of the country. The first and more obvious of the two is an inquiry as to whether I live on a farm, grow wheat or own livestock. (For the record, I don't).
Two weeks ago, I shared my thoughts on the longshots in the race to host the 2016 Summer Olympics ("Like torches in the wind: 2016's Olympic underdogs," Sept. 26). These four cities - Baku, Doha, Prague, and Rio de Janeiro - are, for all intents and purposes, the little fish the very large pond of Olympic ...
Forty-three years ago this week, in March 1964, a young woman named Kitty Genovese arrived at her apartment in the wee hours of the morning after a long night of working as a manager at a local bar. As she walked the 100 feet from her car to her apartment, a man appeared out of the shadows and stabbed ...
Loyal readers, this week you and I are going to sink lower than we have ever sunk before: we are going to write a Lifetime Original Movie.
Textspeak is best defined as the use of varying abbreviations and the dropping of vowels aimed at increasing the speed with which an individual can type a message. As would befit a lingual system where speed is of the utmost concern, the use of textspeak mutilates the English language faster than a ...
Halloween can be a pretty scary time of year. Trick-or-treaters wander in their most terrifying attire while parents do their best to scare the bejesus out of children who stop by their homes. Unfortunately, I am sad to report that a new threat has made Halloween more horrifying than ever before.
As a religious studies concentrator and longtime resident of the Bible Belt, I'm pretty familiar with the popular conception of God. The Big Guy sports a big, bushy beard that flows down over his billowing white robes. He's a real man's man who may have a soft spot for clouds and auras of gold light, ...
Everyone knows that alcohol is dangerous. It can make you throw up, it can make you seduce someone four times your age. It can even make you sit through an entire Jennifer Lopez movie. Worst of all, when combined with a leisurely stroll at three in the morning, it might even get DPS to ask for your ...
Ever since the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten published a page covered with editorial cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed, the world has been embroiled in a raging conflict between proponents of respect and advocates of free speech. At the time of this writing, several dozen people have died as ...
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