I’ve probably driven by Salon Meritage more than a hundred times in my life. I can’t possibly count how many times I’ve walked right past it on my way to Main Street, or to the Shore House Café, or just to a friend’s house.
A recent Congressional Budget Office (CBO) study revealed that the richest 1 percent of Americans has gotten richer in the last 30 years while everyone else has only seen modest improvement, but anyone who has been paying attention to Occupy Wall Street probably already knew that.
According to a 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll, 36 percent of Americans would, if they could pick from a selection of past presidents, want Ronald Reagan to run the country today. Support for Reagan even topped the 29 percent for Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the president who led the United States through the Great Depression and most of World War II.
With the Occupy movement taking place across the country, American political and financial ideology is currently being challenged in a way that it has not been in a very long time. President Obama hoped to cash in on this groundswell a couple of weeks ago when he announced his student financial loans plan at a college campus in Denver.
If you have access to the Internet and haven’t been hiding under a rock for the past week, you have probably heard that Ms. Reality-star socialite herself, Kim Kardashian, filed for divorce from her NBA “star” husband Kris Humphries the morning of Monday, Oct. 31. After merely 72 days of marriage, the wedding that cost $10 million to produce reportedly earned Kim millions in return. The wedding that produced so much commotion in the entertainment world, and was even compared to Prince William and Kate Middleton’s royal wedding came to a screeching halt.
Apparently, we took the words Go forth and multiply” really, really seriously, because the world just got a little bit smaller last week. A baby was born on Halloween morning, bringing the total world’s population to 7 billion people.
There is not much worse than looking forward to a much-deserved weekend free of school, only to look down at your class schedule and realize that you have hundreds of pages to read before the next class meeting — only three days to get it all done.
Here at UC Irvine, we are truly lucky not only to study and work at an eminent university campus, but also to have the opportunity to actively participate in many of the local democratic processes that help to govern this country as a whole. News media’s relationship to government is one of the most fundamental of these democratic processes, dating back to Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense,” which helped to light the fires of revolution in Colonial America.
