About 21 years ago the late David Foster Wallace said in an interview, “I had a teacher I liked who used to say good fiction’s job was to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”In Wallace’s...
The following editorial appeared in the San Jose Mercury News on Wednesday, July 2:———Creepy doesn’t begin to describe Facebook’s 2012 psychological experiment on 700,000 of its unwitting users....
CVS Caremark has changed its name to CVS Health and ended its sale of cigarettes and tobacco products on Sept. 3, which sets a precedent that other drug stores will hopefully follow.CVS Health’s retail...
Skinnier, faster, prettier, tighter, smarter, wealthier, sexier, funnier; all things women strive to be. As we all know, the beauty/fashion industry is at an all time high for body image distortion. Why...
The sight of a body lying on the ground, in any context, is unsettling. From the body of an ebola victim lying forgotten in the street of Sierra Leone, to an elementary school child huddled during crisis...
Last year’s Video Music Awards was essentially the Miley Cyrus show. She sang her hit song “We Can’t Stop,” while wearing nude colored spandex under a teddy bear leotard. She then sang a duet of...
If you’re a fan of the Whopper then you’ve probably heard about Burger King’s latest decision to move its headquarters to Canada. The fast food giant is discussing taking over the Canadian franchise,...
In light of recent events in the world involving social conflicts, I have decided to examine the film “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.” Let’s take a look at the main character, Caesar, the leader...
Campus construction may be causing some angst among students who have to take different routes to class in order to get around the closed-off sidewalks. Although it is an annoyance, Kent State has made...
This Friday the Black Keys will kick off their North American tour in Columbus with a Cleveland show on Saturday. Because the duo is native to Akron, I expect to see the crowd alive and very welcoming. As...
From science fiction movies, novels and television shows, humanoid robots have been a fantastic archetype when envisioning the future. However, with new research and technologies, the day of the personal...
Every four years Ohio becomes the center of politics. Radio and television commercial breaks become flooded with political advertisements. People become annoyed with the constant stream of political mailings,...
