The issue of gun control is, by all accounts, hyper-partisan and prone to inaction. Yet, in light of frequent mass shootings, it is important to reexamine the arguments surrounding the effectiveness of an assault weapons ban, which is often touted… Read More ›
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Never Click on Clickbait
Matt Wood Staff Writer How many websites do you visit on an average day? How many individual web pages do you click on? “South Park” fans will recall the episode “Over Logging,” in which an Internet outage drives South Park’s… Read More ›
“True Detective” season two a convoluted mess
Matt Wood Staff Writer I have never looked forward to a second season more. “True Detective” had rung my bell like no serial before it. Void of any cookie-cutter, made-for-TV crime drama cops, True Detective is driven by a duo… Read More ›
Should we drill in the Arctic?
Matt Wood Staff Writer Pro-Argument Last Monday, President Obama granted Royal Dutch Shell approval to resume its controversial drilling campaign in the remote Chukchi Sea off the northwest coast of Alaska. The decision came just weeks after the president… Read More ›
Life in Black lives matter?
Matt Wood Staff Writter We can hardly go a day without some spectacled, new-age media type telling us about the power of social media. And, to an extent, they’re right. Social media is a powerful tool. Ubiquitous access to the… Read More ›
“Go set a watchmen”
Matt Wood Staff Writer Harper Lee’s long unreleased novel “Go Set a Watchman” is loaded with baggage. Written before her 1960 classic “To Kill a Mockingbird” but set in the 1950’s rather than the 1930’s, “Go Set a Watchman” is… Read More ›
It’s time to axe the death penalty
Matt Wood Staff Writter Few crimes can match the spectacle and horror than that which Aurora, Colorado theatergoers would suffer on the night of July 20, 2012. 20 minutes into a midnight premiere screening of “The Dark Knight Rises,” a… Read More ›
