Author Archive for Jeremy Moore

The Hunger Strike Is Starved of Logic

In the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike, prisoners banded together to protest what they considered to be inhumane treatment by the state. Though the strike was technically a failure – it ended after prisoners began starving themselves to death – it still attracted international attention and had a significant domestic political impact. This is because, when [...]

UCI Is Coming Out

SUPPORT: LGBT’s “Outlist” aims to promote the organization’s visibility on campus.

Where’s The Change?

At the end of President Obama’s first year, our reaction when we hear that his approval rating has fallen to 53 percent should be a good, apathetic “so what?” It’s in the same neighborhood as approval ratings that Presidents Clinton and Nixon received at the end of year one, and it’s much higher than conservative [...]

Netflix, You Naughty Little Tease!

Following 2009’s economic downturn and the ubiquitous bailouts of big companies, anger about corporate greed has become a fairly familiar refrain. We’ve all had that sick feeling when we, the starving college students, consider those CEOs granting themselves millions in bonuses while their companies go bankrupt. But in the wake of a new corporate deal [...]

Night Owls and Jail Birds

Curfews are, constitutionally speaking, a gray area. The government orders certain citizens to be in their homes by a certain time, all in the name of upholding a highly subjective “public order.” Failure to comply with this order could result in legal consequences. Here in modern America, the whole thing seems very reasonable: we use curfews to keep those under-aged hooligans off the streets and away from the liquor stores and heroin dealers. But just replace “America’s youth” with “Jews” and you’ve got Hitler’s Germany. Replace it with “Japanese-Americans” and you’ve got the level of paranoia that plagued our nation following Pearl Harbor. Replace it with “African-Americans” and you’ve got America, 1776 to 1865 – much later in certain parts of the country.

Is Kobe Bryant Worth 23 Million Dollars?

The island nation of Tuvalu is just one of many in the South Pacific. There’s nothing terribly unusual about it, except that its annual GDP (gross domestic product, or the final value of all goods and services produced within a country’s borders) is less than Kobe Bryant’s $20 million yearly paycheck.

TV Ads: Tolerating the Sound and the Fury

California Representative Anna Eshoo has a plan. It’s not a plan to stimulate the economy, it’s not a plan to bring home the troops, and it’s not yet another health care plan.

Hers is a plan about TV commercials.