Opinion
"I can live like hell, but I've got Jesus in my heart. Actually, I've always thought that's a bad idea anyway. Let Jesus out. Just let him outta there."
Steve Jolley
Intro to Philosophy
On the liberal to conservative spectrum, I lean left, religiously and politically. So, in fact, do most of my friends.
Fortunately for me, the EMU community welcomes and endorses my liberal "progressive" worldview in many ways: I can go to chapel and hear MCC workers rebuke the U.S. government's use of violence. I can join Peace Fellowship or Students for Nader, attend peace vigils and protests, recycle my pop cans, and drink Fair Trade coffee without being looked at funny. Read more...
Thankfully the U.S. election season has come to a close. Our ears were tired of hearing the campaigners' platitudes months ago. The campaigns dropped billions of dollars to tell us what was important, and we could barely get a word in edgewise.
The campaigners and their soft-money contributors weren't the only ones trying to tell us what to think. Read more...
Wow, the election is over, so what are we supposed to be talking about now? My idea: the election.
We were tired of hearing about the election even before Nov. 2, but perhaps more important than a lot of the pre-election coverage is the lack of post-election coverage. Read more...
On Wednesday evening, I had the unfortunate and embarrassing experience of having my purse stolen from my unlocked car. Apparently, two young men took the purse up the hill and rifled through it in the bushes. Read more...
