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Undecided voter?

Listen up, you undecided voters: Your days of fence-sitting must soon come to an end. So, you're having a tough time deciding whom you'd like to call your next president. You've seen the debates; you've registered to vote. Maybe you even got the chance to see Al Gore or Ralph Nader while they were in Ann Arbor.

Remember AIDS?

Pharmaceutical drug companies in the last decade have developed quite a lucrative business by inflating demand for their products with over-the-top marketing strategies. Advertising on television, in print, on the radio and on the internet has reached a fevered pitch, bombarding people with messages that the cure for just about any ailment - from allergy symptoms to baldness to erectile dysfunction - is only a doctor's visit away.

Who is really wasting their vote?

In my book, the only wasted vote is a misinformed one. The power of a democracy lies in the people's ability to vote for a person who best represents their views. This isn't a high school student government election; it's not about voting for the person who throws the best parties and smokes the best weed. It's about voting for the person who you think is best suited for leading this nation. And unfortunately, too many people don't understand that and get shepherded into voting for a "winner." If you don't support someone, don't vote for him because of the donkey or elephant sewed into his boxers, because that's a surefire way of making sure that your voice is silenced.

135 down, 455 to go: George W.'s history of execution

Taking a life is arguably the harshest punishment that can be handed down. The use of capital punishment has more than tripled since its re-instatement in 1976. As more and more brutal crimes are being committed, people are searching for some sort of justice, a repayment for the losses that they themselves have suffered. And they ask for that repayment in the form of flesh and blood.

Letters to the Editor

Thomas Kuljurgis: Tentatively Speaking

10-24-2000