Opinion

What do a silly web series called “The Cyanide and Happiness Show” and the Academy Award-nominated documentary, “Sun Come Up” have in common?

On March 26, a group of students created the Facebook page “Saratoga High Secret Love Confessions,” a forum supposedly created for secret admirers to anonymously confess their crushes.

The headline reads “sex and relationships,” but this time it actually focuses a lot on the sex.

There is great power in a pen. I’d like to wield it, one day.  I’d like to create alternate realities buried within the dog-eared pages of quaint books, giving the masses an escape from the humdrum of their dreary lives.

In an attempt to “connect with the people,” the U.S. government made a website, www.petitions.whitehouse.gov, earlier this year that allows the respectable, sensible and patriotic citizens of America to petition President Obama and the White House for respectable, sensible and patriotic reasons.