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Sunday, October 31st, 2010, 11:51 pm in Opinion
By Eryk Salvaggio

Though Matthew Campbell’s Oct. 27, 2010 article, “Belief in self the ultimate divinity,” doesn’t survive a surface scan for willfully annoying religion-bashing, I still feel compelled to respond.
I am an athiest. In my life, I have …


Monday, April 26th, 2010, 1:26 am in Opinion
By Eryk Salvaggio

So much of journalism, like life, is rooted in the noble notion of searching for truth, so it makes sense that the two should have a dialogue.


Monday, April 19th, 2010, 1:09 am in Opinion
By Eryk Salvaggio

Convicted drunk drivers and their mistakes have left enormous wounds in the world, and their sentences should fit the audacity of their crimes.


Monday, April 12th, 2010, 1:04 am in Opinion
By Eryk Salvaggio

I wonder if we’ve simply started outsourcing the task of self-examination: Rather than introspective soul-searching, we bask in constant observation.


Monday, April 5th, 2010, 1:59 am in Opinion
By Eryk Salvaggio

What you do with one successfully cloned, living Neanderthal is as ethically troublesome as what you do with 30 dead or disfigured ones.


Thursday, April 1st, 2010, 1:38 am in Opinion
By Eryk Salvaggio

On Tuesday, the University of Maine announced eight layoffs for fall 2010 as part of an effort to close a budget gap of $5.9 million. I will lose two of the most committed teachers I’ve ever …


Monday, March 29th, 2010, 1:42 am in Opinion
By Eryk Salvaggio

Unless our state has decided its flagship university is for nothing more than vocational training, the humanities are still important.


Monday, March 22nd, 2010, 1:38 am in Opinion
By Eryk Salvaggio

If 65 percent of people would torture someone to death on camera for a chance to “win” a game, then we are a race of closet sociopaths.


Monday, February 22nd, 2010, 2:22 am in Opinion
By Eryk Salvaggio

Clichés are thought killers, reducing complex problems into short phrases that prevent people from getting to the heart of the matter.


Monday, February 1st, 2010, 4:48 am in Opinion
By Eryk Salvaggio

For the smart and crazy, Salinger’s books are manuals for getting by in a world that pulls us into something not ourselves.