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No, this is not about what we can learn from the popular television series "Monk," but rather what the crisis in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, can teach Americans. It shows better than most current events how difficult it is for citizens of a country to reclaim centralized power from a small group of people. (1) comment

Where there's smoke ...

by George Henson, ghenson@smu.edu

In 2006, the song "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" won the Academy Award for best original song for the movie "Hustle & Flow." Change "pimp" to "closeted Republican" and you may just have the new theme song for the Republican Party, a party that has made homophobia a major plank in its "pro-family" platform for years. (0) comments

Beer Bong Mom

by William M. Finnin

What was she thinking? Or was she thinking at all? Maybe that's part of her problem, now shared and recorded for a host of others to consider. Certainly nothing resembling critical judgment crossed her "maternal" synapses Saturday afternoon. Family Weekend festivities on the Boulevard tilted toward full-out weekend before last, not only at the fraternity tents but all across the northern reaches of Boulevard, Plaza and Quadrangle. (3) comments