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• If defense of the Demons

  By Andy Hallman - Dec 19
  Washington’s beloved “Demon” mascot has come under fire lately. Not only will the school have to change its logo for copyright infringement, but ...
  

• Names made into words

  By Andy Hallman - Dec 05
  A friend of mine brought to my attention a very interesting phenomenon the other day, which is the large number of words that are derived from a ...
  

• Elections past and present

  By Andy Hallman - Nov 07
  The 2012 election is in the books. I’ve heard from a lot of people who are glad it’s over. Apparently, they didn’t care for the constant junk ...
  

• Game show debate

  By Andy Hallman - Oct 10
  Barack Obama and Mitt Romney debated each other for the first time last week. I was able to catch most of it. I was interested in how the “talking ...
  

• Hello Jalapeños

  By Andy Hallman - Sep 19
  Over the past few weeks, I’ve taken an interest in a new vegetable sold at the farmers market: jalapeños. Don’t worry. I still eat a lot of ...
  

• Breaking down the big game

  By Andy Hallman - Sep 05
  This Saturday is the most anticipated day in the state of Iowa. It’s the day when students from the two largest state-sponsored universities duke ...
  

• The pitfalls of risk aversion

  By Andy Hallman - Aug 15
  A few years ago I was at home visiting my parents and my youngest sister, Mary, who was in high school at the time. Mary was going to hang out ...
  

• Happy just to finish

  By Andy Hallman - Jul 24
  July has to be the worst possible time of the year to run a race. And yet, that’s what I did a week ago when my family and I participated in a 5K ...
  

• Flashbacks of Little League

  By Andy Hallman - Jun 06
  When I was a young boy, June meant one thing and one thing only: baseball. Little League baseball seemed to consume the entire month through ...
  

• Cars that drive (and fly?) themselves

  By Andy Hallman - Apr 11
  There are a few recent inventions that relate to cars that have caught my eye. They both could revolutionize transportation. One is a car that ...
  

• Poetic Christmas

  By Andy Hallman - Dec 12
  The time has come once again to do some Christmas shopping. My family has done a “Secret Santa” gift exchange for the past couple of years. What ...
  

• Rags over riches

  By Andy Hallman - Nov 30
  A member of the U.S. Congress makes somewhere between $175,000 and $230,000 depending on their leadership position. If you follow politics, you ...
  

• School nostalgia

  By Andy Hallman - Oct 31
  I haven’t been in school for over four years, but when I walk through my old school buildings, I have flashbacks to those days gone by. I recently ...
  

• Walk the walk

  By Andy Hallman - Oct 08
  If you were outside in the late morning Wednesday, there’s a good chance you saw a large group of people walking around. What you witnessed was ...
  

• Rodeo up

  By Andy Hallman - Sep 13
  A few weeks ago I wrote about how I grew up as a very risk-averse boy. Well, earlier this month I met my polar opposites in risk aversion – rodeo ...
  

• The season of fresh veggies

  By Andy Hallman - Aug 29
  We have to wait all winter to enjoy locally grown fresh fruits and vegetables. If you’re like me, you buy as many of them as you can when they’re ...
  

• Trip to Minnesota

  By Andy Hallman - Aug 02
  One of the downsides of getting older is that your friends seem to move farther and farther away. I used to be able to see my high school friends ...
  

• The Show-Me State

  By Andy Hallman - Jun 21
  My parents and my sister came to visit me over the weekend. They were on their way to Fulton, Mo., where my sister had just gotten a job. She will ...
  

• The family cat

  By Andy Hallman - Apr 18
  For 15 years, our family had a pet cat we called “Tiger.” We got Tiger from a litter of kittens on a farm that belonged to a family friend. I told ...
  

• A 10,000-year clock

  By Andy Hallman - Mar 21
  A 10,000-year clock By Andy Hallman The JOURNAL One of the greatest engineering feats of all time is the Great Pyramid of Giza, which was built ...