In recent years, global warming has been an increasingly hot topic in the voice of the media and the ears of the mainstream. As the issue of global climate change has been continually politicized, opinions and statistics have been thrown at the public from every direction.

You’re only going to have a few days to register to vote before the Nov. 7election by the time this column is published, if you haven’t already, and that really should give you a reason to hurry.

Now you can give me every excuse in the book about why you’re not going to vote this time around, such as “it’s only a mid-term election, nothing important is being voted on,” or “I don’t know what’s on the ballot,” but I am not buying it.

While the release of “Jackass 2” is a hit among college students, there is a time and place where it might be appropriate to be like your onscreen “Jackass” favorites. The classroom, however, is not one of those places. In this guide to life, I will provide you with the various classifications of Jackasses so that you know what to look for in others and what to avoid doing yourself.

I can’t quite claim the original Nintendo Entertainment System as the system that got me hooked.

You know, the gray and red box in which 8-bit game cartridges got stuck, froze and you had to blow on them to get them to work.

I wish I could. But being born the year it came out (1985), it was my older friends who ditched homework to clutch that awkward, blocky controller.