"An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery." -Joseph Pulitzer Pulitzer was the scion of investigative journalism.
I was never a serious breakfast enthusiast until college. Sure, I had something to eat almost every morning during high school, but it never consisted of much. As I wrote a few weeks ago, I have lost my enthusiasm for Pierce. However, Pierce breakfasts have continued to grow on me.
This week's insanity at Stevens is class registration. This process can get screwed up so many ways for students it's maddening. Graduate students can register first, a full week ahead of the undergrads. Seniors and fifth years get next priority, followed by juniors.
Some people out there claim to be supporters of freedom. Yes, they will defend the right of a person to marry whomever they want to marry, the right to free speech and so on, but they eventually draw a line. When you suggest that perhaps freedom should apply to all areas of life, including economic matters, you may lose your audience.
While I am not sure whether sharing my personal stories with you, the reader, really helps you to connect with me, I will continue to do so until I think of a better solution. This week marks the one-year anniversary when I parted ways with one of my ex-girlfriends.
After a long wait, the health care bill has finally passed in the House of Representatives, with the public option intact. The vote in the end, although ground-breaking, was almost an even split, with 220 votes for the bill, and 215 against. The main changes made by this bill cover the basic goals made earlier by the Obama administration, including prohibiting insurers from charging patients differently or denying coverage based on medical histories.
"Any who says he understands quantum mechanics," Niels Bohr once said, "doesn't know the first thing about it." Bohr, a Danish physicist who helped invent (discover?) quantum theory a century ago, presumably excluded himself from this dictum. Quantum mechanics, which describes the behavior of electrons, neutrons, protons, photons and other tiny things, is arguably the most potent and precise of all scientific theories.