To our loyal (and extremely patient) readers,

Why have we waited over five months to start up again with TPY? Why, after such comprehensive and popular election coverage did we decide to hang up the towel (for the time being)? Well,to be brief: We got into college, we celebrated… we kept celebrating…  and we continued to celebrate even when our bodies told us we really shouldn’t be celebrating anymore. What you may or may not take ‘celebrating’ to be is something we, as highly responsible and intelligent teenagers, cannot comment on. Shame on you.

We’ll now that our three month hangover (figurative) is finally receding, and more importantly that the world is just as confusing, screwed up, and interesting as when we left it, we’ve decided to get back into the swing of things with both feet.

There are a few changes and improvements we’d like to inform you of.

Firstly: We didn’t completely waste the past quarter of a year. In our downtime we’ve given TPY a foothold on a few social networking sites. This shouldn’t be too surprising as basically any website or blog that wants to be viable in terms of viability needs to have a presence that extends past just one URL. Without further ado:

Facebook fan page:
Twitter page:

Secondly: TPY has a new writer: Tyler Holmes, a rising freshman at the University of Kansas. Look for Tyler to be writing about energy, education, and foreign policy.

Thirdly: Within the next week or so a ‘writer biography’ page will be set up giving our readers a more personal view of the TPY writing staff.

Finally, we’d like to reiterate TPY’s level of seriousness and journalistic commitment to the issues facing our world today. We put the time and effort into this site because the topics we cover, out of necessity, must be argued, supported, and criticized at the highest level of discussion and dialogue possible. Expect articles in the very immediate future on Barack Obama’s nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, The current GOP identity crisis, North Korea’s increasing nuclear volatilty, Pakistan’s growing instability, and the current state of the Israeli Palestinian conflict.

Stay tuned, and get ready. We’re back and we’re here to stay.

- Gabriel Rom