There was once a time when election-year fanfare did not make its conquest before the winds shifted toward springtime. The candidates dared not breach that crucial threshold between the TV and your living room during the frigid death throes of January. The warring factions saw mutual disadvantage in mobilizing their troops before securing enough resources […]
Author Archives: Andrew Bloom
Posted inColumns, Opinion
‘Black March’ Poised To Change Landscape of Censorship Debate
Despite the fervor in certain circles of the Internet regarding the gestating online censorship bills — SOPA and PIPA in the House and Senate respectively — I’ve noticed astonishingly scant attention paid to the matter in the important forums. This negligence comes in a day and age when people in Oklahoma rile themselves over the […]
Posted inNews
Veritas Forum mirrors election 'circus of ignorance'
I have admitted to myself that covering the Presidential election feels like watching paint dry, and I look forward to the inevitable coronation of Mitt Romney like one might look forward to a salad at VG Café. Of course, there will be the occasional circus of ignorance — such as this week’s assurance that Rick […]
Posted inColumns, Opinion
Here's to Mitt Romney
I would like to welcome my readers back to another season, another quarter of (slightly more expensive) education, another 11-week formality in our life-long intellectual chrysalis and indeed to another year entirely. For those of you who could not seem to muster as good enough riddance for 2011 as it likely deserved, I am wholly […]
Posted inColumns, Opinion
A prayer for balanced books
Andrew Bloom is an English senior and Mustang Daily liberal columnist. I have always urged that a limited ignorance of all the twists and turns of procedural nonsense in Congress cannot help but be a healthy habit. Though we continue to pressure Congress toward more transparency, there remain many rituals that we plainly don’t need […]
Posted inColumns, Opinion
Perry implodes, but it hurts to laugh
I like to imagine that somewhere in the White House is a niche, an alcove or the tiniest of sanctuaries from the demands of politics and the press where the president can go to privately celebrate the major victories which seem to come less and less frequently to this administration as of late. This undisclosed, […]
Posted inColumns, Opinion
Herman Cain and Justin Bieber in same boat
Besides a broad and dedicated (and lucrative) fan base among the wholesome conservatives and Evangelicals in the flyover states, each figure is a relatively new guest in the foyer of the American popularity machine — and each is presently combating a much older sojourner: the spectre of the American sex scandal. I ask the forgiveness […]
Posted inColumns, Opinion
Occupy needs true leadership to continue sucess
Folks have been pressuring me to write something about the Occupation phenomenon we see blossoming across the country. They thankfully fall short of asking me to shepherd the movement, to insert myself into the precarious politics of the situation at the San Luis Obispo courthouse, where every evening seems perfumed with that decades-old combination of […]
Posted inColumns, Opinion
Racism evident in GOP-supported voter suppression laws
There has been much discussion since the 2009 inauguration of Barack Obama concerning what American racism and classism might look like in the 21st century. Here was a clear historic anomaly — a black man holding the most sacred office in the land — that so brazenly defied the plain logic of the political whitewashing […]
Posted inColumns, Opinion
A liberal's lament
I want to talk about the experience of being a liberal in today’s intellectual climate. Though I’ve always worn my political sentiments close to the surface, I feel that deeper down there lurks a more transcendental set of beliefs which, even in the best of scenarios, struggles to consolidate its sound and fury into neatly […]