So, it turns out love is real. Weird, huh. This thing, this myth we were all told actually exists. Who knows, maybe the Loch Ness monster is just playing hide and seek with big foot. But, in all seriousness, I am, truly, in love. I think, for the first time too. I have thought I was in love before, but that was, I think, just lust or like or infatuation. In the past I have defined love as a feeling I feel every time I have when I see the person, a rising sensation, but I no longer think that....

Eric Schuman Dr. Naragon AP United States History 28 January 2007 How America Lost its Sense of Decency: Anti-Communism in the 1930s through 1950s “It is my belief that while they [Bolsheviks] have stirred discontent in our midst, while they have caused irritating strikes, and while they have infected our social ideas with the disease of their own minds and their unclean morals we can get rid of them and not until we have done so shall we have removed the menace of Bolshevism for good.” ---A....

So I made a mix-tape for my girlfriend, it’s the second one I’ve made for her (in the time she has been my girlfriend. As friends I’ve made dozens.). As I was making it I thought about the songs I was putting on it. I put a serious amount of thought into mix-tapes. I want each song to matter, none at place, all of it to flow, etc. I get into arguments with myself when I make mix-tapes. I have this dilemma: should the songs on the mix be known by the listener, or should they be new? I think i...

I have to write something incredible, something great. I have to write a bestseller, a critically acclaimed masterpiece. I have to write something timeless, that lasts forever. I have to write something that resounds with people of my time and others. I have to write something. I have to be something, someone. I have to know that I am not useless, arbitrary in this world. I have to know that I have an impact on the world. I can’t be a blip on the timeline of human existence; I have to import...