Author Archive for Mengfei Chen
Mengfei Chen Opinionator-in-Chief Mengfei likes to eat. If her eyes appear to be wandering, it’s not because you are boring, it’s because someone has just walked past with a delicious, steamy, succulent plate of sweet potato fries, or chicken tikka masala, or a burrito or some kiwis or…well, you get the idea. When she isn’t appeasing the demands of her dictatorial stomach, Senor Moussulini, Mengfei spends her time compulsively checking news Web sites and shaking her head at the funny (and sad) things people do. Sometimes, the news gets to depressing, instead of becoming too blue, Mengfei goes in search of puppies and other fluffy creatures and then everything is all better. She encourages people to write or draw for the opinion section, because everyone knows we are AWESOME.
Pork Barrel Spending Brings Home the Bacon
If supermarkets sold politics-themed piñatas, the bestseller would be shaped like a pork barrel.
No ‘Spitz’: Politicians’ Personal Peccadilloes are Tough to Swallow
The past few years were filled with political sex scandals.
America’s Best Fictional Presidents
Non-shitty real presidents thinner on the ground than non-shitty fictional ones, new poll finds. Also, counting backwards from 4 less difficult than widely believed.
America’s Best Fictional Presidents
America has had some great presidents who have demonstrated great courage, vision and strength. The most obvious choices are Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan. However, in recent years it seems as though the most iconic commanders-in-chief have led not in the Oval Office, [...]
People, Ignore Iowa!
The much-hyped Iowa caucus cannot be alphabetic, and it certainly is not rational. Why is it that a state with roughly one percent of the country’s total population ends up with seemingly 90 percent of the influence?
A few people
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New Source of Stem Cells Found
SCIENCE: A new way to create stem cells yields hope for more federal funding and ethical stem cell research.
Annapolis Conference Shows Slight Progress
For Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, last week’s Middle East peace conference at Annapolis may have been the last chance to rescue a term characterized by failure. This statement may sound harsh, but if Secretary Rice’s success were measured by the number of deals she has brokered, then it would also be true. During her [...]
Genetics Must Be Debated
On Oct. 14, 2007, Dr. James Watson, father of modern genetics and Nobel Prize recipient, stated in an interview with Britain’s Sunday Times that he was ‘inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa’ because ‘all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours
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