November 24, 2012
BY:
It was 6:15 p.m. on a Wednesday when I attempted to break into St. Paul’s Chapel on the Columbia University campus in New York City. There was a lecture scheduled for 6 p.m. Simon Moya-Smith
August 22, 2012
BY:
Comfort is a curious thing. In the right amounts it's like a miracle drug. Or maybe it's more specific like a panacea or nepenthe for the lovesick hopeless romantic who can't seem to get over the woman he lost. "God, I just want to forget her!" he... Simon Moya-Smith
July 31, 2012
BY:
It’s not every day that you get a revered professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School to publicly confirm that the Bering Strait theory is “not a fact." Simon Moya-Smith
July 04, 2012
BY:
It was last Saturday around noon and I was in no mood for banal blather. Simon Moya-Smith
June 19, 2012
BY:
Well, folks, Mitt the Mormon has locked the GOP presidential candidacy, and for the first time in 10 years I’m giving serious consideration to spending the morning of Nov. 6 at the beach or bar or breakfast table—anywhere but that vile voting booth. Simon Moya-Smith
June 03, 2012
BY:
No right-wing GOP chubby-belly apologist would dare attempt to persuade civil rights activist Al Sharpton into believing that black-faced caricatures of young African Americans, clad in ripped overalls and Afros, are not disrespectful. Simon Moya-Smith
May 02, 2012
BY:
It was 1:30 p.m. Simon Moya-Smith
November 23, 2011
BY:
It was earlier this month during a snowstorm that I stumbled upon an interesting tidbit of American history—the kind you’d hope would make it into inner city high school textbooks, but somehow gets omitted like so many other things. Simon Moya-Smith