Op-Eds not just about politics

I wanted everyone to notice how op-eds don't necessarily have  to be about politics. Here are some selections from the op-eds you sent to me that have little to nothing to do with politics:

This one is about lessons learned from using voting machines:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/31/opinion/31observer.html

This one is about how the government allows certain vegetables to be "zapped" with radiation to make them cleaner:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/28/opinion/28thu3.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

This one is about recent discussions to lower the legal drinking age

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1812397,00.html

For those of you disinterested in "politics", consider some of these as examples of where your mind might wander, and where your ideas might find a home.

MR R