Editorial/Opinion ArticlesSpectator editorial: Political tweetsTwitter gives politicians a chance to interact with citizensByIt started with MySpace and Facebook. Now Twitter is the new social network people are using - including politicians. According to a May 3 Green Bay Press Gazette article, politicians across the state and country are starting to use Twitter to get their messages out. Christianity's real message hiddenI'll take my Bible with a dose of religion, pleaseByDo you remember that scene from the Ben Stiller movie, "Along Came Polly?" It was the scene where the scuba instructor (Claude, I think was his name) was recounting the tale of the hippo. The happy hippo. In Claude's story, the hippo painted a stripe on his tail to look like the tiger, but he fooled no one. Baseball should have shorter seasonNeeds to add more playoff teams, easier for fans to followByIt's been just over a month since the Major League Baseball season got underway, and more than 25 games have been played. If this were the NBA or the NHL, more than a quarter of the season would already be over. And if this were the NFL, we would already have completed more than 156 percent of the entire season. Breaking Boundaries: It's game overPassing on acquired knowledge can help UW- Eau Claire students, staffByAfter a lot of thinking, I thought I would take my last column and remember the good things UW-Eau Claire has and perhaps give some advice to other Blugolds, students and staff. When I first got here in 2005, I thought taking general education classes was a waste of time. |