Post Column: New fishermen should angle for versatile rod
Mar. 21, 2013When it comes to equipment, the beginning angler might be quickly overwhelmed in his or her efforts to purchase a new rod and reel.
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Post Column: Last entry in annual series a must-buy brew
Mar. 21, 2013For more than a decade, Stone Brewing Company has been giving the world an annual gift. On Feb. 2, 2002, they released the first beer in a series — Vertical Epic 2. Every year since, they’ve released a new Epic, but exactly one year, one month, and one day later. The Vertical Epic is now number 11, and unfortunately that’s the end of the series. To commemorate, we’ll be reviewing the Vertical Epic 12, released Dec. 12, 2012. The craft-beer industry is built on the bedrock of novelties and puns, so the Vertical Epic 12 is sure to be a beer of epic proportions. It’s a beer so good it can give you vertigo. Or at least that’s what we’ve heard.
Gamer Girl: Video-game sexualization isn't a recent trend
Mar. 19, 2013With all the sexualization in modern games we focus on, we sometimes forget to look back on some of the most notable classic video game women.
Post Column: Happy Trails: Break out of your rut: snuggle with puppies
Mar. 19, 2013I’ve been in a bit of a rut lately, feeling under the weather, constantly stress-eating and consistently Googling such search terms as “are hummus and Wheat Thins bad for you?” while shoveling them in my mouth at an alarming rate and contemplating the fact that I’ve never stepped foot in Ping in my two years on this campus (I’m not kidding).
Post Column: Shifting Tides: Accepting uncertainty is a fulfilling change
Mar. 19, 2013Someone once intelligently observed, “People don’t change, they just become who they are really meant to be.” Half of March is gone from the calendar and the air of summer is sweeping through my veins. I become dumbfounded when I think of my first days in Athens at a very young 18, filled with negativity at a life I had to part with and accepting the one I wasn’t in the mood to begin.
Between the Lines: LeBron's undignified exit shouldn't taint his historic achievements
Mar. 18, 2013As a lifelong fan of my hometown Cleveland Cavaliers, the second half of the NBA season has left me feeling lost.
Postmortem: Too much depends on arbitrary age milestones
Mar. 18, 2013There are several important facets of law and order that we cherish dearly in America, like the plan of our nation’s founders that, regardless of vast shifts in societal norms and political culture over hundreds of years, is still completely relevant. We also hold true that communism is bad, democracy is good and the most effective way to deter crime and maintain a healthy society is to assign random ages of legality to various life activities.
Post Column: NFL teams' personal question crossed the line
Mar. 18, 2013During the week of Feb. 20 through Feb. 26, the 2013 NFL combine was held in Indianapolis where hundreds of the nation’s top college football players all gathered to showcase their talents to the 32 teams in the NFL.
Post Column: Seventeenth-century tulip bubble should be a warning for today
Mar. 18, 2013To many people, black pepper might seem to be an everyday seasoning. It can be found practically anywhere table salt can be found, so it must have always been inexpensive, right?
Post Column: Pope Francis has some new competition
Mar. 17, 2013For those of you who haven’t been living under a rock for the past couple of weeks, we’ve got a new pope! If you have been living under a rock, seek help, because that’s not normal behavior, and you’ve probably got a disease.
Post Column: Feds should keep their hands off our milk
Mar. 16, 2013Along with the many other important duties that the government is entrusted with, it is responsible for raiding Amish farms to confiscate illegally used milk.
Post Column: Charity scheme hurts veterans, not bigwigs
Mar. 16, 2013Florida’s Lieutenant Governor Jennifer Carroll resigned Wednesday after investigators questioned her about a charitable organization called Allied Veterans of the World, according to Bloomberg Businessweek. The organization was a cover-up for a $300 million gambling scandal.
Sports Column: Automatic bids for Conference Tournament champions unfair to better teams
Mar. 16, 2013It was a bittersweet night at Madison Square Garden, as Louisville came back to defeat Syracuse 78-61 in the final edition of what has consistently been the most memorable conference tournament in college basketball.
Post Column: Happy Trails: Reminiscing reminds us we used to be worse
Mar. 13, 2013Let’s get nostalgic.
Post Column: Two-Hearted another excellent Bell's brew
Mar. 13, 2013A few weeks ago, we ranted and raved about one of the beer world’s greatest treasures, Bell’s Hopslam. And we noted that it definitely slammed you with hops. Maybe you just like hops, or even like-like them. But you don’t love them like us or don’t appreciate being slapped in the face by them. Does that mean that you can’t enjoy a good IPA every once in a blue moon? Not if you can get your hands on one of Bell’s other fantastic beers: the Two-Hearted Ale.
Between the Lines: Friends eased pain of Valentine's Day celeb rejection
Mar. 13, 2013One month ago, while others were smelling fragrant bouquets of roses and unwrapping boxes of heart-shaped sugar, I was still struggling out of the humiliating mire of pubic rejection from my one true love.
Video games not main culprit for US violence
Mar. 13, 2013So much of our entertainment and culture is centered on violence. It is shown in almost every form of media we have — music, movies, television, advertising and books among the group — yet video games are made the scapegoat.
Post Column: Shifting Tides: Finding one's place an exhausting part of life
Mar. 13, 2013Five past midnight, Monday, March 11. I had ventured back to Ohio from an ethereal week in St. Augustine, Fla., and even though the cats of the town made me ill with their dander, spring break could’ve stayed with me until May and my life wouldn’t have been unlived. But my girlfriend made this return trip with me, so suddenly I felt I could be here without simultaneously being lost in a sea of nostalgia.
Post Column: Expansion of high-school fishing good for sport
Mar. 13, 2013High-school sports are a great way for youths to be active while learning discipline, hard work, teamwork and the joy of competition, which is why Missouri is currently pushing to join Kentucky and Illinois as the only states to include bass fishing as a publicly sanctioned varsity sport.
Weekly Rewind: Space exploration is a worthy human pursuit
Mar. 11, 2013Airplanes, automobiles and home appliances all became commonplace during the 20th century, but one particular development ranks among the invention of the wheel and the printing press: mankind’s first forays into outer space.
