On Third Street and Brandeis Avenue, U of L has a monument erected of a white Confederate soldier in black-face paint.

If there's one thing I absolutely abhor, it is when my process of thought is interrupted. It's kind of my modus operandi.

Recently, we recognized the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina – a tragedy that devastated the Gulf Coast, flooded 80 percent of New Orleans and killed over 1,800 people.

Recently, we recognized the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina – a tragedy that devastated the Gulf Coast, flooded 80 percent of New Orleans and killed over 1,800 people.

In sociology, the term "cultural lag" is used to describe a situation in which technological innovation or change moves too quickly for culture to keep up with and form ideas about. In almost every instance of cultural lag, problems and conflict are bound to arise.

It looks like all you studious folks are finally getting into the swing of things - everyone with their schoolbooks and lunch bags, riding by on your bicycles. I'm starting to see the same people walk by every day. Well, every year for that matter.

On Saturday, Aug. 28, conservative political guru Glenn Beck held a religious rally in Washington, D.C. called "Restoring Honor." Now what makes this rally particularly interesting to us, as American citizens, is what happened in the same spot exactly 47 years ago: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech.

Facebook is place where students can interact with their friends. Unfortunately, despite being a place of friends, users rarely know all of their accepted friends very well. And interactions often become messy, typed, grammatically and politically incorrect fistfights.

Me again. That's right! Time for more thoughts from your favorite all-knowing, totally non-sardonic source of commentary: The Thinker. Thank you, thank you.

I don't know if you know this about me, but I like to think. About what, you ask? It depends. I think about a lot of things, ranging from existentialism to "Jersey Shore." Speaking of, could you imagine if Nietzsche were introduced to Snooki? Oh, the wonder!