By Jeff Malarky Like most people, I look forward to Thanksgiving. Time away from school, dry turkey and a chance to interact with racist family members I haven’t seen since last Thanksgiving —what’s not to love? Well, I’ll tell you what I don’t love: how we all go around and...
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By Lucy Ferguson These days, it feels like there’s a lot of pressure on college students to use these four years to find their purpose. When the people around you can barely figure out how to measure laundry soap without overflowing the machine, such a lofty, magnanimous goal seems near...
By Nathaniel Geriatric-Man Moses at Mount Sinai, Muhammad in the cave and now McConnell at the Capitol. On Monday, July 26 during a news conference at the Capitol, Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell’s gaze drifted past the room full of reporters and towards something beyond. And miraculously, on Wednesday, Aug. 30...
By Edgar Allan Poe The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat. At length I would be avenged;...
By Nathaniel Tropical-Storm It’s that time of the year again: hurricane season. While the South and the East Coast panic at the possibility of yet another natural disaster, the West Coast sits back and sips kombucha along fault lines. But better yet, that means we’re greeted with a fresh new...