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Five Simple Ways to Fake Environmental Consciousness

May 13th, 2008 · 4 Comments

DotPenn Presents: It’s a Sick World. Therapy for environmental illness.
From billboards to movies, it’s everywhere: People are taking an active interest in telling other people to be more “green.”
The message seems to be taking hold. More people want other people to live sustainably. Although, they don’t necessarily want to make any lifestyle changes themselves. After all, […]

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Tags: Editorials · Global Warming

DotPenn Editorial: Damn Guy with Jesus Fish Cut Me Off

April 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment

The following editorial is by L. Fred Edlemeir, a Tipton resident who commutes to State College.
Recently, our country was asked to take a hard look at itself. We’ve been asked: Are we a nation that lives by the principles found in our constitution–except the one that said we shouldn’t drink, which we damn sure made […]

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Tags: Editorials · Religion

Crispy Frickin’ Chicken: A DotPenn Reader Responds

March 3rd, 2008 · 7 Comments

Frickin’ Chicken. It beats flippin’ hamburgers.
The following is an editorial by a DotPenn reader, R. Frank Buckweed, a resident of the Greenwood section of Altoona and one of the area’s premier obscenity-wielders.
So, there I am, out driving the kids, even the boy, to dance class and I look up in the sky and what […]

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Tags: Altoona · Editorials · Food