Last year I thought long and hard about what I was most thankful for in my life and what Thanksgiving was to me. If you’re looking for that kind of column, I’ll put the link at the bottom of the story. This year, I realized I’m also thankful for something else. Good ol’ politics. I […]
Category: The Orion
Between August 2004 and May 2007, I worked my way up through the award-winning Chico State University newspaper, The Orion. I started as an opinion columnist, became the assistant entertainment editor, then the assistant online editor, followed by being a photographer and assistant photo editor, and finally came back as opinion editor.
“This just might do nobody any good. “At the end of this discourse, a few people may accuse this reporter of fouling his own comfortable nest, and your organization may be accused of having given hospitality to heretical and even dangerous thoughts… “It is my desire, if not my duty, to try to talk to […]
Video games suck. And there’s little hope of them getting better. The next wave of the video game console wars is locked into graphics quality. Everyone wants stunning graphics, pretty colors and fantasy worlds that look real. All of these shiny objects coming out act as a distraction for a real issue nowadays. To alter […]
Peter Gammons wants to kill my childhood. The ESPN baseball analyst is trying to erase some of the best memories of my life. He wants to prove once and for all that everything I know is wrong and he is right. He wants to kill baseball. And he’s not alone. In the past seven years, […]
The Philadelphia Eagles won the Super Bowl. The New England Patriots hoisted the Lombardi Trophy for winning the championship game of the National Football League, 24-21. But if you bet on them, you probably lost. They didn’t cover the spread. Sports gambling is a magical world where one paycheck can be parlayed to pay off […]
Welcome to Chico, whatever you’re called Before I get too far into my writing this week, I want to take a moment to welcome all of our incoming freshmen. Congratulations on picking a swell institution like Chico State. I think you’ll have a grand time. For most of you, this is the beginning of a […]
There’s no such thing as being too old to trick-or-treat. Now before you run out in your “sexy” Charlie Brown ghost costume and raise Cain in the neighborhood, here’s the plan to make your All Saints Day truly memorable. If you’ve already bought your Halloween stash candy and it’s still October, you’re a fool. There’s no […]
The bus stopped by the Butte County Courthouse last Monday because of a delivery truck out front. As it edged forward, I noticed a sign on the side window of a black Dodge Dakota. A few feet later, I was lined up perfectly across from the SUV right outside my window with the license plate […]
Editor’s Note: Kyle Buis is taking the week off to celebrate the 74th anniversary of Al Capone’s conviction for income tax evasion. Filling in for him will be former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas….kind of. After reading about what a blatantly leftist opinion page you poor college students have to suffer through, I knew […]
Don’t get too comfortable with your classes this semester. Chico State just might be reclaimed by the people who say they had it first. Butte County supervisor Jane Dolan mentioned last Tuesday that the Mechoopda Indian Tribe has the right to take back the land Chico State sits on. She later said it was “hyperbole.” […]