March 8, 2007
MSNBC recently reported that "[f]orty-two percent of Internet users aged 10 to 17 surveyed said they had seen online pornography in the past year.

February 22, 2007
A few years ago I took a philosophy course at Highline Community College. On the first day of class, the instructor stood up and said, "There is no truth, and there is no right and wrong."

February 14, 2007
For my birthday last August, I received one of the best gifts ever — my grandfather's old tobacco pipe.

February 8, 2007
If I asked you which party — Democratic or Republican — is a racist party, how would you respond? Think about it carefully for a moment. What's your answer? File that answer away for just a moment. We'll get back to it in a bit.

February 2, 2007
Most of us will get married someday. This future is distant, however, and right now we are in college, a time for drinking, partying and casual sex.

January 26, 2007
In 2004, a 6-year-old child in Seattle named Ashley underwent a hysterectomy, had her breast buds removed and was given high-dose estrogen treatments in order to remain perpetually stunted in growth.

January 18, 2007
On Jan. 1, 1802, Thomas Jefferson wrote a letter to the Danbury Baptists in which he first used the expression "separation between Church and State."

January 11, 2007
A long time ago, at a community college far, far away, I took a course on journalism and critical analysis. One day my professor split us up into groups and gave us an assignment: find a current political issue and make an argument either for or against it.

January 4, 2007
UW libraries offer extensive resources to help students in writing papers. Yet, many students don't know how to use library resources and procrastinate until crunch time.

January 4, 2007
The news Web site WorldNetDaily reported that more United States citizens were killed every day by illegal immigrants than U.S. soldiers killed in the War on Terror.

December 4, 2006
The San Francisco School Board has voted to discontinue its Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) program, much to the dismay of the nearly 1,600 students who participate in the program across the district.

November 27, 2006
It is impossible to deny the great divide that splits our nation these days. We are divided on many things, but one thing that should not divide us is our love of and loyalty to our nation. And yet the sad truth is that even this basic and necessary aspect of American life has become just another partisan issue.

November 16, 2006
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan has been in the news an awful lot recently, and it isn't because it is a feel-good family flick you could take your kids to. Far from it. It is because it is a hilarious movie that is very crude at times, and is purported to give a not-so-pleasant view of Americans in their "natural habitat."