August | 2017 | US Represented

by a featured contributor
August 31, 2017
in Analysis, Opinion, Perspective for Hire, Weekly Features
tags Analysis, Health & Wellness, Opinion, Perspective for Hire, Ryan Henderson, Science & Technology

I Want Your Fear: How Andrew Wakefield Changed the Vaccination Conversation through Greed and Deception

by a featured contributor
August 31, 2017
in Analysis, Opinion, Perspective for Hire, Weekly Features
tags Analysis, Health & Wellness, Opinion, Perspective for Hire, Ryan Henderson, Science & Technology

The anti-vaccine movement has now hit fever pitch and is encroaching on daily life in American culture. A whooping cough epidemic that swept through the U.S. not long ago was dubbed the worst in 70 years, according to the California Department of Health. San Diego was hardest hit with over 1,800 cases reported up to December 2014. This didn’t have to happen. An available vaccine of high efficacy has already

by Eric Stephenson
August 30, 2017
in Poetry, Riding the Wave
tags Eric Stephenson, Poetry, Riding the Wave, The ties that bind

The ties that bind

by Eric Stephenson
August 30, 2017
in Poetry, Riding the Wave
tags Eric Stephenson, Poetry, Riding the Wave, The ties that bind

In the corner of the park, thick children splash violently in the waterworks, blameless until that day they too inherit parental guilt; for now, careening spastically into each other and shrieking nothingness under the blistering sun, they don’t need to question the mistakes made for life on Earth.

by Jerome Parent
August 29, 2017
in Exhibit A
tags Confederate monuments, Exhibit A, Jerome Parent, Mo, Monuments, Robert E. Lee statue

Mo’ Monuments

by Jerome Parent
August 29, 2017
in Exhibit A
tags Confederate monuments, Exhibit A, Jerome Parent, Mo, Monuments, Robert E. Lee statue

Vice President Michael Pence recently said that the solution to the Confederate Monuments problem is to build more monuments. Upon reflection, I realize he is absolutely right. Thanks to him and smart people like Steve Bannon and Alex Jones, I am no longer blinded by the historical narrative implanted in my sheeple brain by liberal snowflakes like Shelby Foote. I now know that Robert E. Lee was not a traitorous

by Dana Zimbleman
August 28, 2017
in Education, Information, The Academic Redneck
tags Dana Zimbleman, Education, Please Help Our School, The Academic Redneck

Please Help Our School

by Dana Zimbleman
August 28, 2017
in Education, Information, The Academic Redneck
tags Dana Zimbleman, Education, Please Help Our School, The Academic Redneck

Every time I see the movie Mr. Holland’s Opus, I think of my years as a student at J.B. Pennington High School in Blountsville, Alabama. I relate so much to the character Gertrude Lang, an awkward young woman struggling to master clarinet, the most unforgiving instrument in marching or concert band. One wrong placement of teeth on mouthpiece, and out come foul—and fowl—sounds. I played clarinet long before the Aflac

by Gary Walker
August 27, 2017
in Creative Nonfiction, Creative Writing, Habitually Distracted, Weekly Features
tags Gary Walker, Habitually Distracted, It’s Always the Storm Surge and Other Nuggets of Wisdom from the Land of Hurricanes

It’s Always the Storm Surge, and Other Nuggets of Wisdom from the Land of Hurricanes

by Gary Walker
August 27, 2017
in Creative Nonfiction, Creative Writing, Habitually Distracted, Weekly Features
tags Gary Walker, Habitually Distracted, It’s Always the Storm Surge and Other Nuggets of Wisdom from the Land of Hurricanes

Hurricanes are terrifying. They cause damage and destroy people’s lives. They’re unpredictable and relentless. They remind us of our frailty and mortality. Still, some people like them. Why, you ask? Well, one reason is they give folks a chance to look smart when dispensing arcane meteorological wisdom. It’s the storm surge that causes most of the damage, your great uncle who’s seen a storm or four will tell anyone willing

by DeLyn Martineau
August 26, 2017
in Local Time, Weekly Features
tags DeLyn Martineau, Local Time, Transitions

Transitions

by DeLyn Martineau
August 26, 2017
in Local Time, Weekly Features
tags DeLyn Martineau, Local Time, Transitions

August 20, 2017. It’s the last day of summer, and I finally made time to go on a hike. Tomorrow I start the school year again for the 28th time. I head out of the house early and go to Palmer Park, which, in my opinion, is the city’s best park. Palmer Park is special to me because my great-grandfather used to be its caretaker. His daughter, my great-aunt who

August 2017

I Want Your Fear: How Andrew Wakefield Changed the Vaccination Conversation through Greed and Deception

The ties that bind

Mo’ Monuments

Please Help Our School

It’s Always the Storm Surge, and Other Nuggets of Wisdom from the Land of Hurricanes

Transitions