Merry Christmas isn’t taboo

Michael Rotellini Mrotell1@uwyo.edu “Merry Christmas” isn’t an inappropriate phrase. Merry Christmas isn’t a religious agenda to convert people to the Christian faith. Merry Christmas isn’t something to shame people about, yet I find that it’s becoming an increasingly hot topic around the holiday season more and more. People say that I should say the phrase…

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The Brutal Magic of Ideology  

  Austin Morgan   amorga14@uwyo.edu   When ideology enters, reason evacuates and, in the power vacuum, fascists mobilize. The American public, transfixed with the spectacles created by political ideology and its anti-intellectual machinery—Donald Trump, climate change denial, the war on drugs and others— have become zombified lobotomites. With a hypnotic fervor, the public is lullabied…

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Fetty Wap is not sexist

Austin Morgan With lyrics drawing from a lexicon of words like “tricks,” “hoes” and “bitches,” and music videos featuring so-called “THOTs,” “bad bitches” and “big booty hoes,” rappers have gotten a bad rap among feminists. Recently, rapper Fetty Wap and his famous song “Trap Queen” became prime targets for feminists. I claim that these feminists…

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Chipotle v. Qdoba: a battle of burritos

Qdoba Reigns Supreme Jeremy Rowley jrowley1@uwyo.edu Chipotle is the American Horror Story of burrito joints–it hits all the popular characteristics but it lacks real content. Honestly, to hell with your fresh, “quality” ingredients. If I honestly cared about where my food came from, I would not be stacking and eating a Hot ‘n’ Spicy McChicken…

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I side with

Rand Paul: America loves an underdog Nathan Forest nforest@uwyo.edu Rand Paul: America Loves an Underdog Nathan Forest nforest@uwyo.edu If you’re like me, between the republican presidential debates you were frustrated by the amount of screen time that Donald Trump received. Debates are supposed to give every candidate a chance to let the country know what…

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The Unholy Marriage of Money and Politics

Austin Morgan amorga14@uwyo.edu The figure of the politician in American society, like the lawyer, is often associated with themes of corruption, greed and fakeness. Though many critics often dismiss stereotypes as essentialist, one cannot help but think that this is not an inaccurate portrait of the politician. Indeed, the social reality of politics today is…

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Degenerate Drunks

  Alec Schaffer aschaff3@uwyo.edu   Ponder this description of a standard college party: an over crowded, loud, sweaty, sloppy and odorous gathering, relieved of all moral and normative inhibitions; fueled by a mysterious and potentially dangerous house blend of bottom shelf intoxicants.   This degradation of drinking culture is essentially a trademarked trait of the…

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