In the land of smile, you can visit Buddhist temples, sip tea in an outdoor cafe on the bustling streets of a metropolis, or even travel up country to the beauty of rural Thailand, half a world away from...
Socrates is famous for condemning the unexamined life. On Dec 1., Cornel West, alluding to that famous potbellied Greek, also condemned the unexamined life, and then proceeded to expound his own theory...
Granted Hornet Gym is over 50-years-old, and recreation is an essential part of a healthy and balanced life, but the Recreation Wellness Events Center should come in a distant second to more pressing academic...
The Discovery Channel tells me that most back problems are a symptom of bipedal movement. But am I not supposed to be walking on two feet? Did you know that snakes have hip bones? But snakes have no legs...
The wheels careened around the designated roadway, gliding and smooth underneath the liberated aluminum bodied vehicle, carrying groggy students and faculty past the startled squirrels and poultry to midterms,...
We want leaders who will put the welfare of the state before partisan politics! We want a state government that will get things done! Ahh! The inviolable slogans of John Q. Public! I have asked myself...
Why did the chicken cross the road? To get away from the bird flu, apparently. How did the chicken cross the road? Well, it had to escape a Chinese quarantine and then get past all the media outlets scrambling...
The nomination of White House counsel Harriet Miers to succeed Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court has brought up many questions in my mind concerning the qualifications one might look for in a justice....
So it now appears that students living in the dorms will have to wear their bulletproof vests in order to prevent any life threatening injuries from random gunfire. I would like to pose this one question:...
There is always a great deal of debate about the number of eligible voters who choose not to participate in the political process, a debate alternating between two common explanations that rarely resolve...
Everyday I drive the stretch of Highway 99 between Lodi and Sacramento, and everyday I see the foothills to the east and the coastal range to the west being slowly swallowed in those urban tendrils that...
In the wake of all the bureaucratic hurdles that have already accompanied Hurricane Katrina, the Sacramento community has done a commendable job in accommodating those affected by the devastation. Sacramento...
The pictures coming out of New Orleans are tragic. Those affected by the devastation include a cross-section of mainstream American society. The devastation transcends racial boundaries. So why are we...
What keeps me awake at night is the terrible fear that those we elect to hold public office might not have our best interests at heart. This writer believes that his particular fear is the spawn of some...
It is time to promote a coherent public discussion. This writer likes to think of himself as more than just a casual observer of the human condition. From the perspective of a former political science...