Archive for April, 2010
In Sickness and in Health, Gay Rights
A few weeks ago, the Obama Administration took another step in the right direction toward expanding gay rights. Nearly all hospitals are now ordered to allow patients to decide who may visit them and who can help make important medical decisions. Any hospital receiving Medicare or Medicaid payments (just about all of them) may not [...]
Space Plan’s Deep Impact
On Thursday, April 15, President Obama expressed his firm belief that he would see men on Mars within his lifetime. He outlined a plan for a new direction in space exploration: landing on an asteroid and then on Mars.
As NASA’s current manned space shuttle program nears its end, there has been much discussion about which [...]
Pot and the Student Movement
This year we have seen a surge in student activism. There is an ideological rift between those who consider privatization the solution to our failing education system and people like me who believe that education is not a commodity. Education is a right. Well, it should be a right.
I am genuinely confused by the protests [...]
To the Left, to the Left
Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens is stepping down from the bench after 35 years. Stevens, who was appointed by President Ford, was initially predicted to represent conservative opinions, but has since become one of the most vocal supporters of liberal policy issues on the Supreme Court today. His retirement gives President Obama a rare [...]
Stevens and the Legacy of a Not-So-Liberal Lion
There has been much speculation about who Obama will pick to replace retiring Justice, John Paul Stevens. Many people are looking at the political aspects of the debate. Will Obama pick a liberal, a moderate, a vegetarian? Conventional thinking says replace a liberal with a liberal.
The interesting point to consider about this view is the [...]
Dodgeball Breaking Records
Imagine if you will, thousands of people facing off across a field of green, the members of each side clad in a uniform colored to represent their party, weapons placed between them. At the sound of a mighty call, the two sides will rush toward the other in hopes of being the last standing.
What reads [...]
Cutting the Crap: Saying Goodbye to Wheat, Starches and Refined Sugars
Throughout past journeys to lose weight and become healthy, I’ve learned that I can work out until I pass out or throw up but still not lose weight. Unfortunately, I also have to watch what I eat. This proves to be particularly hard for me — I am a sugar and bread addict. If it’s [...]
The Life of a Cadet
“The nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools.”
—Thucydides, Greek historian
Every morning at 0600 hours, under a silhouetted canopy of trees set against the lightening hue of a navy blue-painted sky, a dozen cadets from the UCI ROTC [...]
Health Care: What Are Your Choices, and What You Should Do For You
Just as we consume clothes, music, and electronics, we consume health services. This is how the health care system (hospitals, insurance companies, pharmaceuticals, etc.) normally views us. We are customers. In the same vein, if we are just a little more proactive about investing time and money in our health like we do with material [...]
A changing of the LL&L guard!
It’s because of you, your submissions and your feedback, that Life Love and Lust took “Best Blog” in the California College Media Association Awards. Now that I’m nearly finished here, it’s almost impossible for me to give it up. I can’t tell you how grateful I am to you for your willingness to share your stories and questions with me and the rest of the UC Irvine community. The column truly would not have been the same without you.
