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• Back in the USSR

  By Drew Gibson on December 30, 2012 • ( 1 )

  

  Imagine a child, an infant, lying on a sparsely covered metal cot. Her bedclothes are soiled since the orphanage she lives in is too poorly funded to provide the children with diapers. Early in the morning she and her unfortunate… Read More ›

• The Fiscal Steamroller

  By Drew Gibson on December 28, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  As far as metaphors go, the concept of the US Government falling over the “fiscal cliff” after the new year is pretty uninspired and ill-fitting. I suppose the idea behind it is that if our elected officials are too brainless,… Read More ›

• An Action Without Affirmation

  By Drew Gibson on December 26, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  It might be thought of as unwise to base a tenet of one’s life philosophy on a comic strip, but when the comic in question is Calvin & Hobbes and the author Bill Watterson, I think that an exception should… Read More ›

• Manger-Gate: Merry Listmas 2012

  By Drew Gibson on December 24, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Seeing as how it’s Christmas Eve and all, I thought it might be nice to can the hand-wringing and righteous indignation for a day or two and tell Scrooge to get bent with a societally inappropriate amount of good cheer…and… Read More ›

• NRA: No Regulations Allowed

  By Drew Gibson on December 22, 2012 • ( 1 )

  

  On a scale of 1 to 10, with one being Bill Clinton waxing philosophical on the meaning of the word “is” and 10 being Mike Tyson threatening to eat his opponent’s babies, the absurdity of NRA President Wayne LaPierre’s public… Read More ›

• Amending the 2nd Amendment

  By Drew Gibson on December 18, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  The 2nd amendment is a lawyer’s wet dream, devoid of anything approaching clarity and subject to the interpretation of whatever august chamber happens to be deliberating on its meaning. It is a Rorshach Test that helps to determine where we… Read More ›

• Are We There Yet? Affirmative Action in America

  By Drew Gibson on December 17, 2012 • ( 1 )

  

  There is a brutal irony in the fact that the potential legal grounding for the disassembling of affirmative action programs in our nation’s colleges lies in The 14th Amendment and in The Civil Rights Act of 1964, two pieces of… Read More ›

• I’ll Get Angry Tomorrow

  By Drew Gibson on December 14, 2012 • ( 1 )

  

  In the White House press briefing room this afternoon, a mutedly distraught President Obama addressed the nation in the wake of the unfathomable tragedy that was taking place in the town of Newtown, Connecticut. From behind his dais, the President… Read More ›

• The War on Drugs Won’t Go Quietly, So Let’s Get Loud

  By Drew Gibson on December 13, 2012 • ( 3 )

  

  Anyone who knows me well will likely be familiar with the fact that objectivity is not exactly my strong suit. However, I like to think that I normally manage to approach issues that I am passionate about with something resembling… Read More ›

• Nebraska Knows Best

  By Drew Gibson on December 11, 2012 • ( 2 )

  

  I’m going to level with you people—I don’t know much about Nebraska. As a matter of fact I’m pretty sure I go for months at a time neglecting to remember that such a place exists. It all just melds into… Read More ›