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Meet us: Generation Y (Millennials). We are bold, aspiring, inventive, technologically savvy, uncannily selfish, non-committal and bound for depression. As a Generation Y’er myself, it was difficult to arrive at this unfortunate conclusion. But after much pondering, even my inherent generational narcissism gave way. The truth wasn’t double-edged. According to a recent study published in [...]

America suffers from a very sickening condition, one reminiscent of its past — Islamophobia — an unfounded fear that leads to the discrimination and slandering of Muslims and Islam. This unfortunate societal diagnosis came to light this summer as politicians, commentators and commoners debated the “Ground Zero mosque.” According to a CNN opinion poll conducted [...]

While cleaning my desk this weekend, I found a scraggy, old piece of paper. Written on it was a quote by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, reading, “He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.” For a moment, I took a little break, sunk deep into my rocking chair and thought about [...]

When Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe walked hand in hand with visiting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad into a press conference in Zimbabwe last Thursday, eyes rolled. Both are tyrannical leaders who hate the West, and for the two to be seen in public further isolates the already devastated Zimbabwe. The visit coincided with the 30th anniversary [...]

I was completely thrown off by Chatroulette. A friend recently sent me a video of Ben Folds using the social Web cam site at a concert. He set a laptop on his piano and improv-serenaded whoever popped up on the screen, from a Viking to a sad-looking kid who stared at the crowd from his [...]