Travis Danner
Special to The ExpressMy love affair with the Oakland A’s started on a warm July night at the Coliseum when I was 10 years old. In some ways, part of me has been frozen in the moment I first saw that…
Not to make light of the tragic disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 — but lately I have an even bigger mystery top-of-mind.
How do people in this day and age continue to vote for Republicans?
Seriously.
On Wednesday, April 8, the “Grand Old Party”…
Travis DannerSpecial to The ExpressI didn’t take my health very seriously when I was young and I suspect my country didn’t either at the time.
I grew up in the 1990s and as long as I can remember, I ate a lot of…
Travis Danner
Special to The Express
Privacy is dead.
Sure, President Barack Obama announced some pretty strong reforms to the National Security Agency’s (NSA) bulk data collection practices on March 24 in an attempt to limit the amount of personal phone data the agency can…
If you go to class and talk during the lecture to the point where anyone else is distracted, you are stealing.
You are stealing the time of the instructor and everyone else in the room. You’re stealing money from the people who have…
Travis Danner
SPECIAL TO THE EXPRESS
So war again, then?
Well, the stage is certainly set for that. Russia has essentially invaded the country known as Ukraine, reigniting old tensions between the United States and the former Soviet Union.
Who doesn’t like a sequel? “The Cold…
Travis Danner
Special to the Express
The ol’ pushbroom. Lip luggage. The crumb catcher.
All those are phrases for something that will give you a pronounced advantage in life — a mustache.
That may sound flippant or ludicrous to you but I mean it with all…
I’ve known that I’m a capable writer for a good portion of my life.
As a very young child, I used to stay up at night, under a blanket with a flashlight, and write myself stories with a Crayola marker. When I was…
Martin GallegosStaff WriterOne second I was listening to the radio, and the next second my body shut down.
It started as a normal Wednesday drive home from school on Dec. 4. Suddenly, I started to see the other cars in front of me…
The same robots that are used to kill and spy on people will, in the next few years, be able to deliver that DVD copy of the entire series run of “Gilmore Girls” you’ve been itching to get your hands on.
On the…