Last Saturday was the annual Z-Day. No it’s not about zombies. Z-Day is a sort of TED talk-like annual event for the Zeitgeist Movement, where activists and revolutionaries gather and give lectures...
I’m not what you would call a sore loser. More accurately, I am a rabid loser. I don’t have a meager lactic acid situation going on; I have the sort of thing that gets your childhood pet put...
When approaching this series, I had several personal conflicts. The most serious is one of political correctness. I’ve spent my life feeling uncomfortable when talking about race, struggling over...
If you could read 600 words per minute, you could read this entire column in about 60 seconds.
With an upcoming app called Spritz, you can learn to read at these speeds and then some. Before you gasp...
Last week, Congress once again did what it does best: delayed the inevitable. Whether the issue is health care, jobs or foreign policy, our political leaders typically avoid implementing fundamental reforms.
Instead,...
In the age of endless information, the truth is everything—unless there is a funnier alternative.
In late February, everyone’s favorite sarcastic Twitter account, @GSElevator,...
Just a few weeks after mainstream media covered the infamous Arizona discrimination law proposal that bombarded the nation into an equality-based debate, Louisiana legislators seeking to name the Bible...
We all remember high school as a time when teachers preached about the importance of attending college. However, this is not the ideal route for all, and luckily, vocational and technical (vo-tech) training...
Louisiana continues to complicate the funding for HIV/AIDS patients, and in a country where health care coverage is a much-talked about topic, this issue remains on the back burner.
The battle to keep...
Baton Rouge, let’s have a chat. This has been a long time coming. Now, I know you are the jewel of the state in a post-Katrina Louisiana, that your economy is booming like never before and that you...
While most of the LSU student body and the world watched as Lil Boosie, aka Torrence Hatch, talked to the media on Monday for the first time since his release from prison, Gov. Bobby Jindal addressed the...
Newspaper headlines are a thing of mystery. Puns, snarky remarks and information all jumbled into a six or seven-word title.
Some “clever” headlines are harmless and corny. The Advocate’s...
