For one day, costumes provide escape
Halloween can be a fun and exciting holiday, but only if you celebrate it. The tradition of trick-or-treating may seem to only be for children, but that is not true. Everyone should be able, and willing, to dress up on…
Ending crimes of power
Feminism: a word that inspires images of a bold woman speaking her mind against society, or eye rolls. A woman seen as a dreaded feminist is most likely ugly and butch – she obviously canât get a man, so she…
Generation Data drowns in sea of search
For eight long years, Noki and I were inseparable. We went everywhere together. We went to school together; we worked together. I brought him home every night. I cherished Nokiâeven cradled him close to my head as I whispered into…
Occupy Wall Street should spur youth to political action, voter awareness
Itâs official; Occupy Wall Street has hit Oswego. Certainly smaller than the 10,000-15,000 person protest in New York and a hell of a lot smaller than the estimated 250,000-500,000 who showed up to protests in European cities, such as Barcelona…
Occupy Wall Street revives â60s misguided liberalism
Watching the âOccupyâ protests, it seems as if we have been transported back to the 1960âs. The crowd resembles Woodstock in 1969 with all the sex and drugs, but minus the rock and roll. They have resurrected the same style…
Social networking often worth more than 140 characters
Can you define a generation in 140 characters or less? Some people seem to think so. Older generations believe our attention spans to be getting shorter and shorter with each tweet, but I have to say it may be quite…
Neighbors to north right on alcohol age
Over the summer I spent two months in British Columbia, Canada. In B.C. the legal drinking age is 19, which presented me with the unique situation of being legally allowed to drink in Canada but not in my own country….
Morals not immortal
Human society is constantly evolving. Each generation of people has a multitude of new social issues to deal with and new ways of looking at them. This is a trend that will continue until the end of existence (which might…
From Agent Orange to Soylent Green
You probably do not notice that when you sink your pearly whites into the bun of that cheeseburger you are supporting a chemical company. When you reach across the table for those potato chips you are ingesting a genetically modified…
Tolerance in face of hate
Never before have public schools systematically taught about the contributions of lesbian and gay historical figures, effective Jan. 1, 2012, that is set to change. The bill that could pull this switch is SB 48. In short, the bill will…
