Column: Sept. 26 debate could break either way
Sept. 26's general election debate, the first of three, has the potential to swing the election one way or the other.
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Sept. 26's general election debate, the first of three, has the potential to swing the election one way or the other.
A little more than a week ago, in my hometown of Pittsburgh, Uber unveiled their revolutionary fleet of self-driving cars for commercial use. We’ve seen autonomous cars on a smaller scale before. Innovations like automatic parking and brake assist have dipped our toes into the uncharted waters of letting go of the wheel and having the machine do the work. Tesla, which has frequently been on the cutting edge of automobile innovation, has already created technology that lets their cars drive themselves on the highway. Cars that drive themselves aren’t science fiction anymore; they are quickly becoming a reality we can’t avoid. Uber plans to replace all 1.5 million of their drivers with self-driving cars, and Pittsburgh is their test run. It remains to be seen what will happen for society if the big car companies begin seriously moving toward switching over their car line-ups to the newly dubbed "autos."
Sept. 17 was the first game under the new Sorority Council restrictions on fraternity tailgates. Though changes were made, ranging from requiring guest lists to banning hard liquor entirely, hospitalization was still a problem. Out of the several hospitals in Columbia, my friend, who had fainted from dehydration, said that there were at least seven students at the one she was at, and that was only 10 minutes after the start of the game.
On his fourth and final defection attempt from Cuba, a 15-year-old Jose Fernandez plunged head first into treacherous waters to save an unknown woman who had been knocked overboard from his boat. It wasn't until he reached her that he learned he had just saved the life of his own mother.
On the eve of the debates, it’s starting to look like Hillary Clinton could lose to the most inexperienced major party nominee in American history.
In the past few years, I have noticed an increasing tendency to attack political opponents by attaching labels to them like "homophobia" or "xenophobia." The term "phobia," once used primarily as a psychiatric description, is now commonly used to malign adversaries.
Fiction writing could be considered one of the cornerstones of culture in the modern world. In the past, fiction has defined culture as much as it has described it, with authors like Dostoyevsky and Camus, among many others, describing what they see through a lenses of what they want to see in culture. However, fiction is under threat. Not by external enemies (though there have been plenty of those), but from the inside. Not by fundamental conservatives, but by so called “progressives.” These people seek to limit what they call “cultural appropriation” in fiction writing. Ironically, doing so would strip away much of what gives fiction its particular freedom as a genre — the ability to examine any subject with any viewpoint, even one not your own.
For the last 11 years, there have been three certainties in life: death, taxes and Florida beating Tennessee. For the sake of Tennessee head coach Butch Jones' public approval, that has to end this Saturday.
This article is a response to Andy Wilson’s article entitled “Endangered species have no secular value” which appeared in the Sept. 6 paper.
A week or so ago, I was riding my bike near the Statehouse and stopped to look at the prominent statue of Benjamin Tillman, a South Carolina governor and senator who was active in politics from 1890 until his death in 1918. Tillman’s legacy stoked controversy last year as social activists campaigned to remove his name from Clemson University’s historic Tillman Hall. Recalling that Tillman was a white supremacist who boasted about his involvement with a lynch mob, I was somewhat surprised to see engraved on his statue’s placard the words: “He was the friend and leader of the common people. He taught them their political power and made possible for the education of their sons and daughters.” My guess is that those who put up the statue believed, as Tillman did, that the "common people" did not include African Americans. This placard has a glaringly racist blind spot, which needs to be corrected. In fact, my first inclination was to call for the statue to be removed altogether.
"Time flies by." A phrase used so frequently that it is almost too cliché. I say that because I believe that today’s generational society is driven to advance more quickly, achieve innumerable expectations and still find a balance of sanity. As a parent, I also say that time has moved swiftly as I have raised children. I’m a very proud parent of three amazing children: a graduating college senior this December, an incoming college freshman and a high school sophomore.
My husband Todd has instructed me to always start this story with “my daughter is okay,” because my heart still bears the scars from an uncertain time when being so far away gave new meaning to “letting go.” As I reflect back on a Halloween phone call received two years ago when Larissa was a first-year at USC, I still tear up and probably always will.
Most students at USC and universities around the country are finding rising college costs to be a formidable challenge. College costs have increased at a rate higher than inflation for the past two decades. While the reasons for this rapid cost increase can be argued from many viewpoints, I feel that the push to provide every high school student the college experience (regardless of need, desire or aptitude) has created a level of demand for higher education where students and their parents are willing to pay whatever is necessary to gain a seat at that table.
Earlier this week, a video leaked of Hillary Clinton at a fundraiser suggesting that about half of Donald Trump's supporters fell into a "basket of deplorables." Right-wing figures and the media pounced on the remarks, criticizing her for insulting a large portion of the electorate.
When I was a teenager in the 1970s, condoms were kept behind the counter at the pharmacy and could not be sold to minors in some states. In contrast, by the time my kids were in high school, I kept threatening to put a bowl of condoms by the front door for them and their friends. As a gynecologist who trained during the height of the AIDS epidemic in America, that’s just the way I think.
I’ve been blessed to have just about every Carolina experience one can have.
There’s a lot of talk in politics about the monstrous problem of China, our chief global rival, holding a ton of our debt. It’s only a matter of time until it calls that in and brings America to its knees, after all.
Watching "Grey’s Anatomy" with my mother once, she said to me: “You know what I’ve always wondered about lesbians? How do they know when sex is over?”
Almost everyone loves cruise ships, so what could be bad about using one to travel the world for four months? Absolutely everything.
The oil industry has been brought into the spotlight recently as scientists investigate a likely connection between "fracking" and earthquakes, specifically with regard to the recent elevation in Oklahoma’s seismological activity. Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, is a process of oil mining that involves injecting large amounts of high-pressure water into the Earth’s crust in an effort to widen pre-existing fissures. Many scientists and geographical survey groups believe this excavation process can precipitate earthquakes as large as the 5.6 magnitude one that shook Oklahoma last week and damaged at least 14 buildings.