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Towards the latter part of the summer of 2007, Eric Spafford, Jared Vryhoff, and myself decided to take a little road trip to Assateague Island, Maryland for a few nights, just to get out of Central New York. What this turned into though was four days of debauchery, decadence, and deranged humor that brought us all a little closer to one another. The trip down was about 300 miles, but mapquest.com had not aided me one bit. We drove blindly into Binghamton, New York, and proceeded to get a roa...

There I am, sitting in the office of Donald Birkenshriner, Editor in Chief of the New York Times. Well, I’m more or less in the waiting room, which coincidentally is a waiting room to enter another waiting room where a group of black tied thugs weed out potential journalists all vying for the same position. Some would call it slave labor, but journalists such as myself see it as a gateway to Mecca; playing co-reporter for any reporter on that staff that needs it. Talk to witnesses, doub...

Through simple observation, anyone can see that religion and politics in America are clearly intertwined. How can this be though? America not only founded itself on, but also prides itself on the separation of Church and state. Even in the year 2008, we still have not completely kept the church and state separate from one another. It seems that the two only come closer together as time goes by. Even as recently as our current election, candidates are still being asked questions about their fa...

  Police officers are viewed to be the standard of an upright, outstanding citizen, but when they break the law; many officers become as tight-lipped as members of the mob, which can prove to be harmful to the cities they serve. In July of 2008, officer Patrik Pogan was video taped pushing a cyclist off of his bike during a monthly demonstration by a group known as Critical Mass. Pogan has since been stripped of his badge and gun, and the New York Police Department "placed the offic...