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GUEST COLUMN
by Paige Devlin
When was the last time you bought bottled water? Did you think that consuming that refreshing drink would have impacts on the environment, and maybe even your health? Why do many consumers still pay for this beverage when you can get it simply by turning on the faucet?
Conserving water is an issue [...]
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Living at Whitman has been a struggle for me so far because I don’t recycle, and that seems to be the only thing people get a hard-on for around here. At times, the ethical silence generated by the galaxy of bio-tourist eco-do-gooders that surround me is deafening. There’s this bullshit idea floating around that if [...]
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Remember the tense final weeks of the presidential election? During the final stretch, John McCain’s most vocal criticism of Barack Obama was that the Illinois senator’s tax plan intended to “spread the wealth around.” Across the country, voters recoiled in horror upon hearing these words, for as McCain made blatantly clear, redistributive wealth policies are [...]
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The Congo’s civil war nightmares of the past are coming back to haunt it. A current crisis that has been brewing– or, more appropriately, is always brewing – since roughly 2004, erupted at the end of last month in the eastern Congolese city of Goma between the political limbs of the ever-at-odds Tutsi and Hutu [...]
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Let’s talk for a moment about girls kissing girls. More specifically, let’s talk about former Christian-singer-turned-pop-maven Katy Perry kissing girls. Because her incredibly popular single “I Kissed a Girl” leads us to believe that this is an activity she enjoys doing. It leads us to believe that mainstream pop music has finally (finally, finally) made [...]
