Tag Archives: Opinion

Palin and “sexism”

Recently, a lot has been made about “sexist” comments referring to Sarah Palin. Honestly, I haven’t seen them. Nothing like that has come out of the Obama campaign. Maybe you could make the agrument that it has come out of “the media,” however you want to define that, but I haven’t heard any from the [...]

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Moments in History

For a while, everyone was asking each other “where were you when you heard about 9/11″ “or what were you doing,” etc. While I was alive (11 at the time), I was too young to really appreciate what had happened, so the memory never really stuck with me. From what those older than me have [...]

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Some schools have “minimum grade” at 50

USA Today reports:
In most math problems, zero would never be confused with 50, but a handful of schools nationwide have set off an emotional academic debate by giving minimum scores of 50 for students who fail.
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Their argument: Other letter grades — A, B, C and D — are broken down in increments of 10 from [...]

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Maybe we should take comic book movies seriously

I saw Iron Man yesterday with a few friends, and I liked it more than I was expecting to. Sure, it had a borderline-ridiculous plot, but Robert Downey, Jr. was brilliant. He’s has been one of my favorite actors ever since I saw A Scanner Darkly, and his role in Iron Man is the only [...]

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Why I hope Clinton doesn’t win the primary

It’s no secret that I’m an Obama supporter. I’ll support Clinton if she’s the candidate, but I dearly hope she isn’t. I’m not a big fan of Hilary Clinton for several reasons:

Clinton received significant amounts of money from the health care industry.
Clinton has spoken out against violent video games.
Clinton suggested using military force against Iran.
Clinton [...]

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Two explanations for the global warming controversy

Despite the fact that I’m taking AP Environmental Science, I’m really not qualified to discuss the details of the greenhouse effect and global warming. I do know that they are issues with legitimate scientific uncertainty, but also that the general scientific consensus is that they are both happening. So, I chose to analyze the issue [...]

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Should video games be considered an art form?

I’ve been meaning to write an article on this subject for a while now, but when I started to write I realized I wasn’t exactly sure where I stood on the issue. So, I decided to take a different approach when writing this post: I wrote a draft of it off the top of my [...]

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