Are funerals for the survivors or for the dead? Are baby showers for the newborn or for the parents? Living wills are legally enforceable contracts that carry out the wishes of the deceased. In other words, they are burdens placed on those living by people who no longer exist.

Though it’s really assuming to think about the USPS running focus groups for stamps and asking marketing consultants how to make mailing cool, I see the policy change clinging to the coattail of a shift in our epistemology of how we judge others – from a dualistic (good vs. bad) framework to something else.

In the face of the failure of a perspective, Thomas Edison once optimistically said, “we now know a thousand ways not to make the light bulb.” Edison rightly saw these failed perspectives as a cost worth bearing.

It is a common argument that if you are able to fight for your country, you should be able to drink in it. Well, America has once again complicated what very well could be a simple right and put an age on it. What I am referring to is availability of the Plan B contraceptive [...]

 The NFL playoffs are just weeks away, and it seems appropriate to begin predicting who will make the playoffs, and at what seed.  I am going to make predictions based of off current record, future schedule, and possible momentum.  Of course, this is the NFL, and anything can happen. *Remember that these are just predictions. *Teams in [...]

In yesterday’s Michigan Daily there was a story about the amount of tickets sold for the Sugar Bowl on January 3rd, where our Wolverines will be taking on the Virginia Tech Hokies. One of the issues brought up was that the students might not make it back in time from the game in New Orleans for the first day [...]