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Shockingly Simple: Pfizer should pay up following recent birth control debacle

By Andrew Shockey
Columnist
February 28, 2012

Imagine waking up tomorrow to learn your preferred condom brand's most recent shipment was defective. You spend weeks obsessing over how you could have been more careful, but eventually your ex calls with...

The C-Section: Louisiana is the most corrupt state, and it won’t change

By Chris Grillot
Columnist
February 28, 2012

If there's news about Louisiana as a whole, it's usually bad news. If you had to guess, it's now official — Louisiana is the most corrupt state in the union. And it doesn't seem like things will...

Head to Head: Cultural outreach outweighs honest mistakes.

By Nicholas Pierce
Columnist
February 27, 2012

To Muslims, the Arabic Quran is the holy and unaltered word of God. When handling the noble Quran, we first clean ourselves via ritual ablution. When reading the Quran, we hold it or set it on a small...

Positively Carnal: Pornography shouldn’t be demonized for its downfalls

By Kristi Carnahan
Columnist
February 27, 2012

Many women lament the discovery of pornography on their partner's computer or in their DVD collection. With the opening of another adult entertainment store in Port Allen, there's now more porn to be found...

 

Head to Head: United States’ intolerance is losing the war overseas

By Phil Sweeney
Columnist
February 27, 2012

"What men call accident is God's own part," wrote English poet Philip James Bailey. Troublesome, then, is the government's insistence that the recent Quran burnings at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan were...

Press X To Not Die: ‘LSU Memes’ page destroys the sanctity of the meme

By Adam Arinder
Columnist
February 26, 2012

Never in my wildest dreams did I think being an Internet nerd would make me a hipster. Sure, I wear plaid shirts and black plastic-framed glasses sometimes, but I don't hang out at coffee shops or act...

The Philibuster: Oscars not all glitz and glamour

By Phil Sweeney
Columnist
February 26, 2012

Lights. Camera. Oscars. Outside the Hollywood & Highland Center (the Kodak Theatre, for all intents and purposes), a raucous sea of reporters and cinephiles parts for Hollywood's red-carpet parade,...

Shockingly Simple: Reform needed to protect digital legacies of deceased

By Andrew Shockey
Columnist
February 26, 2012

We've all been warned about posting crazy pictures on Facebook. We've been told employers might not be interested in someone who can do a keg stand — or at least not someone who wants to show it...

Positively Carnal: Sex toys should complement, not complicate

By Kristi Carnahan
Colmnist
February 23, 2012

Let's not mince words here: Bringing sex toys into the bedroom creates anxiety and insecurity for many people — not just men, but women, too. I haven't met a person that isn't at least a little overwhelmed...

Manufactoring Discontent: Religious right are persecution hypocrites this election

By David Scheuermann
Columnist
February 23, 2012

Don your armor, culture warriors. The War on Religion is beginning once again. When I first heard the cries against the War on Religion taking place in America, I was expecting to see waves of rainbow-clad...

Blue-Eyed Devil: Mormonism shouldn’t be placed on Romney’s shoulders

By Nicholas Pierce
Columnist
February 23, 2012

The practice of baptism-in-absentia has been going on almost since the Mormon Church's inception. Essentially the idea is this: a devoted Mormon stands in for one of their ancestors and undergoes the baptism...

Letter to the Editor: State employee retirement not part of Social Security

By
February 23, 2012

In response to the Feb. 16 article