Editor, Gambling destroys lives and families. Gambling is a filthy addiction to greed. A Chicago mother was charged with suffocating her 3-week-old daughter to collect a $200,000 insurance payment to pay for her gambling addiction. Six elderly people were robbed and murdered in Louisiana because the killer was addicted to video poker.
Many of us learn the hard way that the best cure for a broken heart is to simply bid the outside world adieu and never leave the house again. Who needs real relationships when you can curl up with eight seasons of “How I Met Your Mother” on Netflix?
Editor, Recently I have begun to notice the alarming proliferation of a number of life-sized, bronze statues of wolves, all around campus — near the Duck Pond, Zimmerman Library, and elsewhere — and I am alarmed at how I fear this might affect the safety of our school.
Editor, Yesterday, I watched the debate between Ken Ham and Bill Nye, which was focused on the differing perspectives of religion and science regarding the history of the Earth and how we human beings got here.
“Well I think you are sexier.” That was what I wrote Phillip with a Snapchat last week. Ever since our friends-with-benefits relationship ended we would occasionally flirt with some snapchats or texts, but tonight was different.
Editor, President Obama offered a deeply chilling vision for the rest of his time at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue last week with his State of the Union. This vision does not stem from his unrealistic, though not necessarily unreasonable, requests of the 113th and 114th Congresses in terms of policy.
Everywhere you go on campus these days, people are sniffling and sneezing. Coughs echo in the halls and tissues fill the trash cans. It is the season for respiratory illness. Have you already succumbed? If not, would you like to avoid getting sick?
Editor, After reading Mac Morin’s letter (“New Atheists neglect modern cases for God”), I noticed a word he liked to use a lot: Philosopher. In a simplified manner, a philosopher observes the natural world and makes deductions based on what they see.
Editor, It is perhaps something of a surprise that almost none of the so-called New Atheists have anything to say about arguments for God’s existence. Instead, they tend to focus on the social effects of religion and question whether religious belief is good for society.
I confess: I love the Olympics. I’ve enjoyed the global spectacle for as long as I can remember, even though the first Games I recall were the tragedy-marred 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. One morning I turned on the TV and instead of the games, there were German policemen running around on rooftops!
Editor, This letter is in response to your article, “El Centro Leader Faces Contention,” in the Daily Lobo’s Jan. 13 issue. Being an active participant at the candidate forums, it is important that one misconception be put to rest.
Editor, State Senator William Sharer is not being forthright when he told the Daily Lobo in last Monday’s, “Gay Marriage Ban Proposed,” that he is simply trying to ban same sex marriage because, “the root of all problems in society is what I call dadlessness.”
Editors, I write in response to Monday’s article on state senator William Sharer’s proposed bill to ban gay marriage in New Mexico. Sharer said, “The root of all problems in society is what I call ‘dadlessness,’” “Marriage has been a way to put a dad in the family.
Editor, What has the world come to? In looking at the news today I came the conclusion that our world has come to a point in time that we do not deserve God’s continued grace and restraint.
Editor, I drink no booze. Booze causes car crashes which paralyze and kill thousands, including my niece Rachel. Booze causes dreadful family fights and ruined romances. Men wake up in jail cells — not remembering stabbing or shooting their close friend the night before.
Our society loves to play games. Whether it’s Lobo basketball, beer pong or Disney Scene-It, everyone loves to play a game. And if there is one thing we love more than playing games, it’s winning them.
Opinions are changing when it comes to the subject of marijuana — and New Mexico should join the short list of states that have pioneered the path to pot decriminalization. As New Mexico Sen. Jerry Ortiz y Pino (D-Albuquerque) said in the Daily Lobo last week, people who want to smoke pot are already smoking it.
Editor, Two weeks ago the UNM community was informed of changes to the Aquinas Newman Center on Las Lomas. Archbishop Sheehan informed the Dominican priests that they must be out of the Newman Center by July 1. Diocesan priests will continue the work at the Newman Center.
Do you suffer from sour burps and a burning pain under the ribcage after you eat? Do you wake up at night with a cough, or greet the day with a gnawing pit in your stomach? Do you shout, “Yes, that’s me!” at the television when the purple pill commercials come on? If so, you might have heartburn.
Editor, The spectacular failure of the Obamacare rollout has given much fuel to Republican opposition of the Democrats’ agenda and has bolstered their criticism of the Obama administration. Sadly, the greater lesson here is being lost on both parties and, no matter the outcome
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