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...there’s one thing the comic book community has never completely been able to shake it’s the stigma associated with age. Since comics were originally geared towards children (even today many within the industry still colloquially refer to them as “funnybooks”), a great majority of people have come to associate comic books exclusively with kids—and the claim “Only kids read comics!” has become the standard (and inaccurate) battle cry for the legions of adults with “more serious?...
...that is, we columnists eventually grow old with time. As the years pass, our prose starts to stumble and our foresight begins to dim. Once-sharp witticisms gradually resemble the oft-repeated yarns that put small children to sleep. Indeed, after only a few short years of writing, people refer to us as seniors. The term is fitting to both our age and our attitude. Like most senior citizens, senior Crimson columnists tend to be tired, grumpy and nostalgic...
...provisions on issue ads should also be retained in the House of Representatives. The bill limits television advertisements by for-profit corporations or labor unions that refer to a specific candidate within two months of a general election. This measure will help prevent corporations and unions from exploiting a loophole in the election law that allows them to buy campaign ads as long as they avoid the magic words “vote for” or “elect.” In compensation, the bill will use the Federal Communications Commission’s authority over broadcasters...
...there is no intent to associate "Muslims" with "Muslim fundamentalists." After all, we use the term "fundamentalist" or "extremist" not just with Muslims, but also other religions: we often refer to religious cults as "Christian fundamentalists...
True,but how often is an eight-year-old Christian boy harassed at school because of something that "Christian fundamentalists" were accused of doing? I refer to the aftermath of the infamous Oklahoma City bombing of 1995. The American media, ever anxious to find a scapegoat in the Muslim world, declared that the bombing had the "hallmarks" of Islamic terrorism. This was the consensus of "experts." In the three days following the Oklahoma City bombing, there were 220 documented hate crimes against Muslims throughout the nation. Until it was shown that the bombing was concocted and carried out by homegrown...