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The risk of crime may have a marginal effect on the decisions of some students to study at LSU, but the bigger problem is the lack of state investment in the university. We are hemorrhaging high-quality faculty to higher-paying universities, and we are then having a difficult time in recruiting new ...

Conservative Republican here. I know Barry Keim pretty well, and he is a model of scientific integrity. Moreover, he is not some wild-eyed environmental activist masquerading as a professor and finding climate change under every rock. Instead, I have found that he has a very nuanced view toward clim...

As Gary Larson tells us, there is a special place in hell for people who drive slow in the fast lane. [img]https://attachments.priuschat.com/attachment-files/2020/10/195757_upload_2020-10-20_12-36-18.jpeg[/img] ...

I have wondered how long it would take for MM to depart country music because country fans do not fit her expectations of appropriate political views. Frankly, she comes across as a mentally unstable and clinically narcissistic person. I don't mind a person who disagrees with me politically--I a...

[link=(https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/ex-louisiana-dems-head-leaves-state-over-anti-lgbtq-laws/article_c9c7c67d-1ae4-5cd2-bfae-7c37eadfc16a.html#tncms-source=featured-3)]LINK[/link] I have been increasingly concerned about the politically activist "news" coverage by The Adv...

[quote]They’re told now on certain topics specifically not to “both sides” them[/quote] This kind of politicized "reporting" cannot occur without editorial action, so it would not be surprising that politicized journalism is more systematic than just the writing of Finn....

[quote]She's saying that Chappelle is directly responsible for violence when there is absolutely no way to prove that is the case[/quote] I think that it would be different if she had said that Chappelle [i]could[/i] be responsible for violence. I would disagree but she would be making a probabil...

I had a very good friend in college who had polio as a child and was in a wheelchair. She was beautiful, funny, has a great personality, and is a joy to be with. I introduced her to one of my best friends, they started dating, got married, and have had a wonderful marriage for almost 40 years, with ...

The bad news for Bud Light is that there are many readily-available alternatives on the market. What does it take for someone unhappy with Bud Light over the woke policies and in-your-face hostility to its base to shift to another non-premium beer? Where this kind of boycott is less likely to wor...

In my experience the folks with "In this house we believe . . ." and "Hate has no home here" are usually among the biggest haters there are. Many of these folks have hatred for and withhold kindness from anyone who disagrees with them. ...