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Hairy Sustainability

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"Quite simply, the argument for investment in clean energy solutions is analogous to the argument for permanent hair removal...."

Hairy Sustainability
(As Published in the Diamondback, the University of Maryland's independent student newspaper).  Read More »

Nader the Traitor

Ralph Nader's bid for the 2008 presidency is hyprocritcal and egotistical, and threatens to undermine the Democratic candidate... whoever he/she may be.  Read More »

Boycotting our way to global warming solutions?

What is the role of nonviolent civil disobedience in provoking social change?  Read More »

Confronting eating disorders -- where do we draw the line?

Eighty percent of the times that I have walked into the fitness center this year, her skeleton-like frame has come into view. She is on the elliptical, she is working out hard, and she looks like she is going to break in half. I can see her veins and bones through her pallid skin, and the dark moons under her eyes make me feel like I am staring at a walking (well, running) corpse.  Read More »

Confessions of a New England Snob

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I never realized until I came to Maryland how thoroughly biased I am to my native New England. People always joke about New England snobbery, and I can now testify that they are not exaggerating. The following are my confessions, and general points:

I’m out: I am 100% New England snob, and proud.  Read More »

Sunburnt in February

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It is February 18. And I am sun-burnt.

Currently in College Park, MD, it is a balmy 71 degrees Fahrenheit and sunny. Did I mention that the date is February 18?

It's a beautiful day, and everyone is loving it. People are strolling around campus, reading outside, enjoying this unusual-- can we even call it winter? -- weather to the fullest.  Read More »

Blame the Boomers

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It was my Grandpa’s birthday and I spent four hours away from campus as an alien youth, socializing with a group of foreigners from a planet on the other side of what is being called the largest generation gap since the ‘60s.  Read More »

Contradictory Conservatives

My American Government textbook defines conservatives as the "defenders of the status quo," who believe in less government involvement especially with the economy, while liberals "seek to change the status quo" to foster development of equality and well-being of individuals.  Read More »

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