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Rand Paul needs to stop distorting truth about vaccination


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Rand Paul has been sucked deeper into the loony lagoon. Despite being busy advocating for a return to the gold standard, claiming Ebola can be contained through free market mechanisms and asserting that the Department of Education is unconstitutional, Rand Paul has decided to make another wild assertion — that vaccinations should be voluntary because […]

Rethinking the true value of superhero franchises


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Whenever I hear people discuss movies, a solid three out of five times I’ll hear someone mention a superhero franchise. Did you watch The Avengers? Or The Guardians of the Galaxy? That one where Chris Evans is super ripped? As a film student, I’ve heard my fair share of criticism about these types of movies […]

Vinyl with a vengeance


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Once relegated to the back corner of music stores and dusty storage boxes, vinyl records are making a comeback. Collector’s record shops are popping up from coast to coast. Rolling Stone reported that even in the economic downturn of 2010, vinyl sales started to climb. Most bands even release their EPs on vinyl –– Daft […]

Thoughts from someone who thinks too much


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My philosophy class this semester has got me feeling a certain way — namely, outraged, furious and thoroughly nonplussed. Taught by a 300-year-old white professor who suspiciously resembles Aristotle himself, the class contends this week with Zeno’s paradox of motion. Walking across a room, as Zeno describes, requires walking half the distance to the other […]