Having grown up in the capital of South Carolina, I take it for granted that politics elsewhere are not as crazy. Between Joe Wilson, my representative, screaming "You lie!" in the middle of the State of the Union address and Mark Sanford running off to rendezvous with his Argentinian mistress, it's...

For its February issue, Cosmopolitan magazine listed my university's Lady Gaga class as something that's "sexy now." They write, "Finally, an excuse to wear a bustier to study sessions." Well, as a student of this class, let me tell you -- it's not sexy.

I'm four classes into

I first read about my university's "Lady Gaga and the Sociology of Fame" class in a New York Times article. This is not how I usually find out about my possible electives, and in the beginning, I couldn't figure out why this subject was creating so...