Tapping Out

With a slow turn of the knob, you open the door of whatever sucker in your family decided to open their house to drunken relatives, gravy stains, and a pile of dishes that will take Christmas to clean up. The smell of roasting meat and piles of desserts assault your...

Dying for the story

Source: Eros Hoagland/HBO (NY Times) It was an awkward silence; only broken by a cough in the back of the room. A week after the 9/11 attacks and my freshman journalist class had settled into a routine of homework and facetious inquiry; the result of the boredom and...

Broken Twi-heart

Source: EW.com Everything was the same. The sticky theater floor beneath my feet  The smell of artificial butter wafting through the carpeted building. The cacophony of squeals, teenie-bop catch-phrases, and professions of love for actors that will never even know...

“An assault on American values”

(Photo by Jeffrey Phelps/Associated Press) “This is an assault on American values.”-Malkit Gill, President of the NE Sikh Study Circle of Milford, MA As far as the Sikh’s I’ve spoken too are concerened, when Wade Michael Page allegedly openned...

Take your medicine

(Photo courtesy cartoonstock.com) “Researchers from Canada found that physical punishment (such as slapping, hitting, pushing and shoving) — even without child neglect or physical, sexual or emotional abuse — was linked to mood disorders, anxiety...