Snide Remarks

Snide Remarks

A Freshman Easter/The Bad Haircut

It is perhaps unfortunate that I grew up in a family with no real strong Easter traditions. Oh sure, we'd decorate the Easter eggs with toxic store-bought dye, and we'd wake up Easter morning to find baskets containing about three pieces of candy and...

Are You a Freak?

I hate to be one of the people on this page who do nothing but whine and complain about how others behave, but I'm tired of the freaks. When I say freaks, I'm talking about people who have chosen a subject, usually from pop culture, and have mad...

The History of Valentine’s Day

It would be impossible to have any romantic inclinations whatsoever on Valentine's Day if one did not know the full history of it -- the same as no one enjoys Thanksgiving without hearing about Pilgrims. Therefore, in order to encourage knowledge a...

The Valentine’s Day Column

Valentine's Day has crept up on us yet again. You will no doubt see other articles in this very newspaper talking about the history of the holiday, but they are probably deceptive, saying that it has to do with old Catholic saints and Roman gods, or ...

Celebrities Wanted, Dead or Alive

Journalists are extremely unpopular. They are almost as unpopular as lawyers, which is not fair, considering lawyers get paid obscene amounts of money, thus compensating them for the abuse they must endure, whereas journalists have been known to quit...