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April 27, 2008

I spoke to a group of confirmation students at the Ascension School on W. 108th St on the subject of sustainability.

Even as a student, during perhaps the bleakest years of an otherwise dominating half-century of college football, I knew my school was just as likely to be called “Linebacker U” as Penn State. Yet, upon recently returning to my alma mater, I noticed that Beaver Stadium isn’t the only building on campus where a strong defense is revered.

I attended a rather lackluster debate on Wednesday night between former NY Times Middle East correspondent Chris Hedges–who was promoting his new book I Don’t Believe In Atheists–and writer/communist Sunsara Taylor–who was representing Communist party leader Bob Avakian and his book Away With All Gods!–on the provocative topic of “Atheism, God and Morality in a [...]

I’m not sure how to preface this, so here it is: I like a Nickelback song. Yes, I’m talking about the band that sounds (and looks) like all the worst elements of the grunge era were dumped into Pro-Tools and produced by the CEO of Warner Music himself. I discovered this rather shocking truth [...]