All Entries in the "Opinion" Category
It’s the Economy, Stupid!
This month, I painted a red slash across my door frame in hopes that the Gas Gods would pass over me. Instead, they raised their prices in glee (to over $6 in some areas) as I raised my fists in anger. Yesterday, I woke up to a strange smell in my house. It was the [...]
The Internet Future
As the Internet was created, the inventors did not realize that it would make a huge transformation to the world’s geography, democracy and humanity. No longer are people thousands of miles away, today they’re just two clicks and a button away. No longer can the government hide and deny public opinion. No longer are people [...]
Try A Month Without Facebook
It was a hot autumn day on one of my breaks as I spent countless minutes scrolling down my Facebook news feed. My eyes were glazed over as the words moved quickly on the page, and soon I was a combination of completely blanking out and absorbing superfluous information. Although this Facebook routine occurs daily, [...]
Go Ask Adam: Prop 37 and Frankenfood
Like so many Orange County residents, I buy healthy food (organic, non-GMO, etc.) to feel like I’m better than other people. It’s a natural desire, especially in the land of Range Rovers, Botox and pre-nuptial agreements. So when I heard that Proposition 37 required food companies to label whether or not food was genetically engineered, [...]
Education: To Tax or Not to Tax
According to the California Budget Project, between 1987 and 2010, the top one percent of California earners saw their incomes increase by 82 percent. The bottom 20 percent of earners, meanwhile, saw their incomes drop by 18.8 percent. Don’t be confused: the top one percent do not now work 82 percent harder than they did [...]
Ode To Obama
This presidential election is the first one in which I am old enough to vote, and I am proud to say that I am standing behind President Obama. Why? Because he simply gets it in a series of important issues. (I want to make it clear that the order of the issues does not indicate [...]
Attack of the Super PACs!
Dear Proposition 32 proponent, I’m just going to say it like it is. You are not a smart person. I understand that I shouldn’t be making dispositional attributions about you, but really, you’re about to make a terrible, terrible decision. You want to vote to de-voice workers across the state, while maintaining that major corporations [...]
Education: To Tax or Not to Tax
I’ve heard many things about Proposition 30, both in and out of the classroom. I’ve heard good, bad and even some questionable things. So I did some fact checking. Prop. 30 calls for an increase in taxes for the next eight to nine years for certain salary brackets. It is written so that anyone making [...]
Run With Romney
We live with the perception that our views are somehow on a higher moral ground than the views of our opponents. For example, if someone is against abortion, he is, by default, against women’s rights, or so many of us conclude. If you are a political-science-majoring college student who reads the New York Times proudly [...]
‘Til Death Do Us Part
It’s explained on your voter’s ballot, it’s described on the flyers you got in the mail and it’s written on those papers activists pass out on campus that (unfortunately) go unread into the trash. Proposition 34 “[r]epeals [the] death penalty and replaces it with life imprisonment without the possibility of parole,” according to the California [...]
