Preston Brooks: The Undergraduate
This site being styled in part based on my interest in Preston Brooks, a historical figure and former congressman from South Carolina, I have been putting some effort into researching his background. I know much, but there is much to learn.
I pinpointed a citation to an article devoted in its entirety to the man […]
Defeat of the No-Decal Parking Ticket
Two things that you WILL take away with you after graduation from a university: a diploma and a parking ticket. I can confidently say that parking enforcement is out of control at campuses nationwide. Most everyone who gets a ticket for illegal parking feels aggrieved in some way: they were only stopping […]
Word Du Jour: ’sputum’
A noun, pronounced SPEW-tem, meaning:
Matter coughed up and usually ejected from the mouth, including saliva, foreign material, and substances such as mucus or phlegm, from the respiratory tract.
This word recently lead to the drubbing of Jerry Cipriano at the hands of Katie Couric.
During the tuberculosis story in June, Couric got angry with news editor Jerry […]
South Carolina Rebels Against the RealID
South Carolina recently voted to not implement the requirements of the federally mandated RealID Act of 2005. Passed by both houses of congress, this legislation directs the states to implement standards with regards to state-issued ID cards. The bill, which now has a compliance date of December 2009, requires that ID cards contain […]
Oil: The Renewable Resource
It has long since been the conventional wisdom that oil is formed by dead biological material being compressed in a process that takes hundreds of thousands of years. Usually scientific explanations that are intriguing to second graders, like masses of dead Tyrannosaurus Rexes underground, turn out to be inaccurate.
The fact of the matter is […]