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Monday, May 11, 2026

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Opinion: Video games — a fear of falling

Platform games: arguably the most innocent genre in all of video gaming. Running and jumping through various worlds, either two or three dimensional; playing as a range of different characters like Mario, Donkey Kong, Rayman, Sackboy or many others; hopping from platform to platform in hopes of reaching the end of the stage. It’s exhilarating.

Opinion: The truth ‘evolves’

For the first 14 years of my life, the stories of the Bible were the only foundation for my beliefs. I refused to believe anything else because I was never taught anything else. When I was young, I took the stories of Moses and Noah as pure fact and memorized the Book of Psalms and

Opinion: A case for creation

“Is creation a viable model of origins in today’s modern scientific era?” In a debate last week, Ken Ham, an Aussie and the CEO of Answers in Genesis, defended the Biblical view of the world’s origins, while Bill Nye (the Science Guy!) spoke of science. Ham, a born-again Christian, stressed early on in the debate

Hookup culture: destructive or just different?

If you’ve ever had a casual sexual experience with someone, taking part in what our moms’ therapists are now calling “hookup culture,” you’re at risk of never finding love. This is according to Towson University English professor Andrew Reiner, who believes hooking up and hanging out leads to the inability to express intimacy. In a

Disney does gay characters right

Last month, the first ever gay couple was featured on a Disney Channel show. Though “Good Luck Charlie’s” two lesbian characters received no more than 10 seconds of airtime, the feat was significant — not just for gay people and supporters, but for the human race. The storyline was simple. Charlie had a playdate with

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