During finals week, a friend from high school had a Facebook status that read (paraphrased), “Finals week brings out the best in people. I need to leave for a bit and the guy sitting nearby just understands,...

Dear Manmuncher readers, or reader, or… anyone? Who am I kidding: Dear Mom, Thank you for all of your fan mail and comments. Please feel free to keep them coming. It was my pleasure to provide you...

I’ve always liked history, for one because I find the parallels you can draw between a seemingly dissociative past and a complicated, bureaucratic present to be fascinating. But also because there is...

On Tuesday, the governing board of the Tucson Unified School District was supposed to consider a plan that would allow Mexican-American History and Mexican-American Literature to be offered as electives,...

The tornadoes that devastated the South last week have been called the deadliest natural disaster on American soil since Hurricane Katrina, but you wouldn’t know it, as Katrina received much more publicity. The...

I’m an English major, but aside from the curriculum and technical requirements of that, I obnoxiously fit the romantic characteristics that come with the territory. I vicariously seek the oldest, most...

I bring to you a shallow philosophical anecdote: The pants I buy are not extravagant or expensive, or in any way remarkable. I get them off the same shelf in the same department store in the same mall...

It was my 10th birthday when my yearning for walkie-talkies was finally realized, of course only after my parents became tired of me putting me in peril to prove their necessity to my safety. Right after...

Despite my relentless criticism of the government, I do love my country. There is no other place on earth with as many opportunities, not to mention a ridiculous standard of living. As many politicians...

Sen. John Ensign, R-Nv., finally resigned Friday after the Senate Ethics Committee voted last week to continue to probe Ensign based on allegations he had an affair with campaign aid Cynthia Hampton in...

Full disclosure: I have a large ego. This large ego leads me to believe my opinions - and justifications behind them - are perfectly solid and reasonable. This alarmingly narcissistic belief naturally...

This is what happens when you go to school in Ireland: You forget how to go to school. My Scottish friend warned me about this before I left Edinburgh in January. He said school in the UK and Ireland...