Editor, As someone who was sexually harassed in the past, I know first-hand about the inner pain that victims/survivors experience. But as someone who spent five years as a counselor/therapist working in the fields of alcoholism, drug addiction and mental health, I want to share my observations and research findings about various forms of "abuse."
Editor, I lived well all of 2017 on $5,528 for my total expenses — rent, food, etc. — for less than half the U.S. poverty level for me as a single person. I enjoy living simply — less spoiled, less bills, less stress, more freedom. I refuse to be a slave to ads, commercials and corporations. How much worse the environment and climate chaos would be if all 7 billion people on Earth consumed, traveled, polluted and ate meat and dairy like most USA-ans. Why hog much more than my fair share in our world family?
Dear Protester, I am a journalist. One of the mainstream media, if that is the name you choose. I go to rallies, marches, demonstrations, sit-ins — you name it, I cover it. I am there because you are. The causes you support, the tension and disruption are all means of facilitating discussion. So, talk to me. Tell me about it.
Editor, The Atlantic's Ronald Brownstein reports that a new political organization, With Honor, "has launched a major effort to elect to the House more recent military veterans who commit to working across party lines...a bipartisan core of House Members who are inclined to seek common ground, whatever their personal views." The idea that veterans are particularly well-suited for political office — in part because of "their experience working in diverse teams that pursue common goals under great stress," as Brownstein describes With Honor CEO Rye Barcott's view — is not a new one. Nor is the expectation of a ready and waiting bloc of voters, many perhaps veterans themselves, who are inclined to support veteran candidates.
Editor, We applaud people who feel like doing something. In an age where so many people spend so much time sitting or who are doing nothing, let's celebrate the people who are doing something. Celebrate their living. I've always been blessed with energy. Energy is a good asset. As a young adult growing up, I wanted to be in the middle of whatever was going on. I always enjoyed playing sports, swimming in the lake or creek, riding a bicycle for miles or being in the middle of the dance floor. I've always enjoyed movement.
Hundreds of millions of people suffer from snail borne parasitic diseases. Some of these parasites, like the schistosome worms that live in blood vessels, are considered world health concerns.
The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), Medicaid, Student Loans, Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) and Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) — these are all programs that many individuals have used at some point in their lives, even if they didn’t know it. All generations, whether it is Baby Boomers, Generation X, Millenials or the upcoming Generation Z, have felt the ripple of poverty that has left its impact throughout the history. Not all individuals were born with a silver spoon. Despite the fact that poverty has long been a factor in any society, American or otherwise, there is often a stigma to it.
Editor, In October of 2016, a Wall Street Journal article claims Donald Trump's lawyer paid $130,000 to buy the silence of Stephanie Clifford, better known to viewers of adult films, at any rate as "Stormy Daniels." Daniels, it's alleged, was set to tell the story of a 2006 sexual encounter with Trump on Good Morning America and in Slate. Now-president Trump and Daniels deny — through the attorney — both the encounter and the alleged payoff, but as I write this, In Touch magazine now claims to have the true scoop. In 2011, the magazine claims, Daniels described the encounter in an interview and passed a lie detector test to substantiate her story.
Jan. 20 marked a full year since Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 45th President of the United States. Love the current president or despise him, few can deny that his first year has been anything but ordinary. Trump’s approach to his candidacy for the White House was widely viewed as unorthodox, and he has continued this approach into his presidency. Trump has involved himself on social media far more than any of his predecessors and used Twitter as a form of communication to spread both his positive and negative views on national and international politics.
Poop is funny. As scientists, we have many euphemisms for it: guano, scat, feces and frass. But no matter what you call it, or how old you are, poop makes you laugh. However, most people don’t appreciate the health benefits of having healthy poop.
The second worst thing about federal government "shutdowns" is that they're almost entirely meaningless theatrical productions — tales told by idiots, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing — from beginning to end. The worst thing about such "shutdowns" is that they end, usually in a way that undoes most of what little good they accomplished in the first place.
Skateboarding into Spring (1/18/18) 9 a.m. the brown earth like wet hay collects like a lump of bread like dough or a hovis or a barley loaf of
Editor, Marriage destroys many friendships. My parents might have been good friends if they had never married. Some couples become better friends after divorce. If I had been my mother, I do not know how I could have coped with being married to my dad. If I had been my dad, I do not know how I could have coped with being married to my mother. Married 48 years until my mother died, much of the time, it was emotional WAR! Fortunately, they did not booze; they did not own guns! I learned from them NOT to get trapped in a miserable marriage!
Nikki Haley’s reaction to the U.N. resolution in opposition to Donald Trump’s infamous Jerusalem decision is symptomatic of the U.S. disdain for real democracy. With an overwhelming majority of 128 to 9, the General Assembly defied the threats of retaliation by the U.S. government and decided to give peace a chance and keep the Jerusalem question open. The U.S.-American administration could bring only eight satellite states into line. Autocrats routinely couch their lies in a Royal We. Thus, in stubborn defiance to the U.N., the U.N. ambassador, Nikki Haley, insisted, “America will put our embassy in Jerusalem. That is what the American people want us to do. And it is the right thing to do...The president’s decision reflects the will of the American people.”
When the holiday season is in full swing, so is giving. But why can’t giving be something we do more of year round? Just last week, I was driving in Downtown Albuquerque and happened to notice quite a few tents and sleeping bags in the area — there’s something beautiful and symbolic and silently loud about the things people choose to carry when there is only so much they can own. It reminded me of the fundraisers, donation bins and meal preps that were abundant over the past two months. Awareness was abundant. Where did all the help go?
Editor, Prophet Martin Luther King, Jr. damned the Vietnam War in his most controversial speech on April 4, 1967 — exactly one year before he was assassinated. King damned the U.S. mass murder of Vietnamese people. King said, “The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today is the my own government.” The New York Times, the Washington Post, many newspapers nationwide condemned his strong message of truth! Many whites, many blacks, the White House, even most of King’s inner circle of black leaders condemned his strong message of truth!
Editor, "Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?" U.S. President Donald Trump allegedly asked during an Oval Office meeting, further musing that the U.S. should try to strike a new balance with fewer immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean and more from, say, Norway. Well, of course, he shouldn't have put it THAT way, if he did (he denies it). Between the language and the demographics in his supposed example, he's handed his opponents the opportunity for a doubly delicious round of public moral preening — look how vulgar, and how racist, Donald Trump is!
Editor's Note: This piece was originally published online in the UNM BioBlog on Dec. 11, 2017, written by Xena Mapel. This is part of our project to help connect the Daily Lobo audience to more members of our community. What is it like to conduct international field work as a biologist?
Is the millennial generation entitled? Well, that depends highly on who you ask. Most individuals who fall in the 20-year age gap of being born after 1980 and to come of age in the new millenia would argue no.
Editor, This letter is in response to the articles covering the sexual harassment allegations made against men in the media and government throughout the United States. To all males living in this country, I issue a collective statement: enough already! Who are you to impose your sexual desires on someone, because they did not give you their consent?
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