cosmic's blog

I have a big, juicy, meaty bone to pick with some vegetarians. I think being vegetarian is a great idea, because it is healthy for the body and our planet. I am not a vegetarian, but because I believe in its beneficial qualities, I try to eat vegetarian meals at least once a week.  Read More »

The President is the most powerful person the in entire world. But in a democratic state, what purpose does the President serve? Is he or she supposed to be the servant to the people, following their every will, or the Master of the Nation, a leader who commands public policy?  Read More »

I'm a senior in high school, and for the past year I've served as the president of my school's Amnesty International chapter, a human rights club. The club is best characterized as liberal, though there was once a day and age when supporting human rights was an apolitical cause that everyone could advocate. Point being, in my position in this club, I have a lot of self-righteously indignant liberal students nagging me to host constant rallies at my school to protest various human rights abuses.

My problem with all of this? The act of protesting is pointless and ultimately selfish.  Read More »

The topic of this blog is somewhat unusual for me, and I'm sure many of you out there will view it as irrelevant and even banal. Even in the midst of Barack Obama securing the Democratic presidential nomination, I've chosen to blog now about... stink bugs and invasive species.  Read More »

The Democratic Presidential nomination race: it's all over except the crying, or so says the Associate Press.  Read More »

I'm sitting here listening to some Elton John on the radio. I sure do hate that guy. Love his music, just hate the individual. What really set me off about Elton John was his "Americans are misogynistic" remark at a Hillary Clinton fundraiser not too long ago.  Read More »

Here's a frustrating situation I have. All of my best ideas, my most personally inspiring thoughts, come while I'm trying to go to sleep. Whether it's an excellent rebuttal for an argument I was having earlier that day, or just something that would make a good blog post, these ideas always come to me at the most inconvenient of times: while I'm about to doze off...  Read More »

Can we really know anything?

Humans are inherently paradoxical and contradictory creatures, and can never completely be in the right or wrong, be completely assured in the total truth of a bit of information or an opinion. Accepting the impossibility of perfect reason is actually quite liberating...  Read More »