by Amanda Read Sheik | Mar 7, 2012 | Politics, Satire, The Washington Times Communities, World Views
This week I wrote an article titled “Satire and Sandra Fluke: Was Rush Limbaugh really wrong?”. It stirred up quite a discussion on an already hot topic. As a supplement to it, I wrote the following explanatory comment on satire at the suggestion of my...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Feb 21, 2012 | Journal, Luke Historians, Politics, The Washington Times Communities
For the last couple of weeks my laptop malfunctioned repeatedly, until it got to the point that my dad finally had to wipe the whole thing clean. The machine runs smoothly and feels bare and empty, as if the past four years never happened (thankfully I have important...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Nov 24, 2011 | Journal, The Washington Times Communities, World Views
Alright, perhaps that’s not the header you remember seeing on my Thanksgiving column last year. But I made the juxtaposition for this post while the contrasting subjects are fresh on my mind – The Pilgrims (in 1621) and Voltaire (1694-1778)....
by Amanda Read Sheik | Oct 30, 2011 | Appearances, Journal, Politics, The Washington Times Communities, World Views
I haven’t blogged since the beginning of September (Note: I just updated the “Darwinocracy” post), so I have some catching up to do. The weather is chilly, the colors are changing, and there is a fire crackling in our fire place right now. On Friday...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Sep 3, 2011 | Politics, The Washington Times Communities, World Views
This post is an appendix to my Washington Times Communities article, Darwinocracy: The evolution question in American politics. Does Darwin rule the electorate? Why does a stigma surround those who are skeptical of Darwinism, and how should candidates respond? Ah, the...
by Amanda Read Sheik | Jul 27, 2011 | Journal, Literary Projects, The Washington Times Communities, World Views
It has been quite awhile since I made a blog post categorized under the “Journal” label. In an effort to be professional and not fill the blogosphere with personalized, sentimental clutter that once characterized the silly blog posts of my teen years, I...
