Written by Bob Valentine, contributing writer The nation seems to be outraged over the attempts by Russians to plant false news about candidates on social media, thus influencing the outcomes in American elections. Who needs Russians when we have political parties? While we are spending millions of dollars on investigations and eroding what little diplomatic Read More
Written by Bob Valentine, Contributing writer It is official: We are living distracted lives in a distracted world. There, doesn’t that make you feel better? It explains a great deal about what is happening all around us, even if we’re not terribly aware of what exactly is going on. In the last few days, the Read More
Written by Robert Valentine, senior lecturer of advertising The great gift of the 20th century must surely be the computer. For those dear readers who don’t remember the 20th century, the computer is what we used to remember, calculate and entertain us before the cellphone. In the early days of its development, around the end Read More
Written by Robert Valentine, Senior Lecturer of Advertising and contributing writer So, like, I am almost totally, like, you know, like, mad about a couple of, like, small words, you know? Really. Right now you have no idea what this column is about. You have, like, twenty words, but you are still just as uninformed. Read More
Column by Robert Valentine, senior lecturer of advertising There are those who come to a college campus with the idea that they are about to begin a four-year party. With luck, they might stretch it to five or even six years. They are right. Of course, it all depends on your definition of “party.” Those Read More
Column by Robert Valentine, senior lecturer of advertising Adios, graduating seniors. Of course, some of you won’t leave until after graduation, but a few have been “gone” for a couple of weeks. The body will walk across the stage at the CFSB Center, but the mind wore out and left the classroom long ago. If Read More
Column by Robert Valentine, senior lecturer of advertising During the week before Spring Break, the results of the Student Government Association elections were announced. Tori Wood is the new SGA president and her victory came in a virtual landslide. I say “virtual” landslide to distinguish it from a “literal” landslide – the term having come Read More
Column by Robert Valentine, senior lecturer of advertising Let us put all pretense aside. This is an official rant. Mankind has been able to communicate since the “dawn of time,” which we may assume came right after the “night of time.” However you measure it, it’s been a while. Over time, we have learned to Read More