Does anyone really care that the NBA season had its first two weeks cancelled? The NBA has been in a lockout for 105 days now and the lockout has gone by virtually un-noticed. When the two-week cancellation of games came out on Monday, most looked past it and continued watching the Lions win on Monday Night Football.

A trolley is hurtling down the tracks. There are five workers on the track ahead of the trolley, and they will definitely be killed if the trolley continues going straight ahead ….There is a spur of track leading off to the side where another person is working. …If you pull the switch, the one worker will surely be killed. What should you do?

Everybody likes a strong economy and everything it entails: full employment, higher wages and salaries, better benefits, more innovation, and so on. And just about everyone agrees that the current economy pretty much sucks. So how do we get from where we are back to economic health?

I often read Michigan Daily opinion pieces and also tend to peek at the comments people leave. I find that most of the opinion pieces are coherent, intelligent, and well founded. Most comments, on the other hand, are quite the opposite: uninformed, inaccurate, and simpleminded. But much worse is they are downright offensive, derogatory, and ignominious.

Tel Aviv: Empty streets on Yom Kippur There are a lot of Jewish traditions I love partaking in, fasting NOT being one of them, for reasons I’m sure most people would understand. But this ritual is fairly ordinary, so I participate when necessary, including this past Saturday for Yom Kippur. I’ve accepted that fasting is one of my duties as [...]

Happy midterms ya’ll. Take a 5-minute break and see for yourself why Tuesdays are Too Funny For Words.