It was a good week for creepy internet shut-ins or jihad-waging terrorists.
If you’re a decent person who believes in privacy and the value of human life — eh, not so much.
Over the past week, two separate groups of people (each…
Ongoing crises in Ukraine and the Gaza Strip. Robin Williams’ suicide. The (considerably less important cosmically but nonetheless significant to me) 8-month-struggle of the Oakland Athletics.
Turning on the TV or checking Twitter was not a pleasant occurrence in the month of…
The 2014 valedictorian of Las Positas College is one of our own.
Yes, we’re bragging. We confess to the shameless self-promotion. But once you learn about Bekka Wiedenmeyer, it will be clear why we strayed from traditional objectivity.
Her impressiveness goes way beyond her…
Bekka WiedenmeyerEditor-in-chiefI have been at Las Positas College for four long years, and if there is anything I have learned, it’s that you have to have thick skin or you are going to crash and burn in life.
I learned some other important…
Travis DannerSpecial to The ExpressThe human race has been having the debate about climate change for decades and I’ve never heard or read a definitive answer to the question most commonly posed to its deniers — why would scientists lie?
According to NASA,…
Travis DannerSpecial to the ExpressDonald Sterling, you are an idiot.
You’re about to lose your sports franchise, the Los Angeles Clippers, because of the fact that you’re an idiot.
You told your mistress that she shouldn’t be publicly associating with black people, and she…
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…