"We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the constitution says, but everyone made equal..."
Ray Bradbury wrote these words nearly 60 years ago in his most famous novel, Fahrenheit 451,...
Paying one's own way, as comedian Daniel Tosh's recent "Daniel's Kickstarter" routine reminds us, is a self-sabotaging Ponzi scheme.
"Like a lot of you," he deadpans with Sarah McLachlan's signature gut-wrenching...
As if our generation needed another excuse or pathway for intoxication, French-American scientist David Edwards has released a spray, which, when ingested, causes brief intoxication with no after-effects....
When Republicans convened in Shreveport on June 2 for the Louisiana Republican State Convention, they planned on voting for 46 delegates for the Republican National Convention in August and going home.
Instead,...
It was May and already summer, for all intents and purposes. School was out for most University students, and downtown Baton Rouge was infected with their blissed-out, donezo rabidity. For my own part,...
Bonnaroo has become synonymous with the outrageously drug-fueled, sun-kissed party on a farm that it admittedly is. But it might as well be a synonym for unpredictable, too, and I found that out this year...
On Memorial Day, presidential candidate Mitt Romney decided he would take advantage of the military holiday by pointing out the difference between his military plans and President Obama's to the veterans...
The Louisiana House of Representatives is trying to ruin this University.
University students received a mass e-mail May 21 from Chancellor Mike Martin outlining the House's plan to cut more than $200...
Mitt Romney is now the Republican nominee. With Texas in his back pocket, "Richie Rich" Romney has theoretically accrued enough delegates to more or less call curtains on the primary season.
Now we can...
Why did we invade Iraq? More importantly, why haven't we intervened in Syria?
Obviously, there are many differences between the two countries. They have two distinct cultures. It would be like comparing...
DIED, May 24, 2012, of unnatural causes at her Howard Avenue residence, THE TIMES-PICAYUNE, New Orleans' renowned daily newspaper, in her 175th year of age.
The native New Orleanian was born January 25,...
The Internet isn't broken, but that hasn't stopped Congress from trying to fix it.
We got our first taste of their reforms when Congress tried to pass SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, and PIPA, the Protect...
