Commentary
What the frack?
If you live in Fort Worth, you’ve undoubtedly heard that “natural gas is fueling America’s future.” Leading natural gas producers like Cheseapeake and XTO have filled our airways with messages promoting their causes, but those messages have recently come under attack.
IT infidelity
Are you looking for erotic chat? What excites you? Do you want a short-term sexual fling or a long-term affair? These are some of the questions that the 8.5 million people had to answer in order to register at AshleyMadison.com, a website that’s become an infidelity emporium for married men and women looking to cheat.
Underpaid upperclassmen
March 15 is an important day for any prospective Texas Christian University freshman. It’s the day to anxiously wait at the mailbox for a white envelope with purple type on the top left corner from a certain return address: The Office of Scholarships and Financial Aid.
Keep your eye on the ball
When a girl grows up with three brothers, who were born with baseball gloves for hands, she learns a few things about the world: 1) Hot dogs are best eaten right off the grill—no condiments, 2) Befriend the children wandering around the alleys between the fields at the little league park and 3) If you want to know something about the game, you can’t sit in the stands.
The silencing of the minds
“Can you help me with my paper?” she said, wearing an anxious look like slapped-on makeup. I smiled warmly and nodded. As a writing tutor, I love hearing those words. Those words always give me an optimistic attitude that a student will leave a tutoring session with a new, confident voice to use in their writing.