“Oh, my God. Are we gonna die?” My good pal Jake (not his real name) and I had just consumed an entire package of Pepperidge Farm Milano cookies. We were hanging out in my dorm room, and, for some reason (being stoned as a wheat cracker), we got it into our heads that the cookies we’d just consumed, which were [...]

Dr. Maria New, a pediatric endocrinologist of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Florida International University, and psychologist Heino F. L. Meyer-Bahlburg of Columbia University, are once again in the news with their controversial experiments on female fetuses with the experimental and dangerous drug dexamethasone (DEX) after Dr. Alice Dreger, professor of clinical medical humanities and bioethics in Northwestern [...]

This past June the Supreme Court overturned mandatory life sentences without the possibility of parole for minors on the grounds that it constituted “cruel and unusual punishment” under the 8th amendment.  This comes on the heels of similar humanitarian rulings, such as getting rid of the death penalty for the mentally disabled and persons who commit their offense when under [...]

If there was one person who wasn’t shocked about James’s death, it was James, who stated more than once on his blog about his failure to “hang onto sobriety”…

Their ruling involved Albert W. Florence who was strip-searched after being wrongly detained over a traffic fine. In fact, the fine was already paid and he displayed an official receipt to officers who stopped him.

Just for the record, at the time of this bit being posted we’re approaching the end of March, 2012. In an effort to get some answers and feedback on some of the more controversial topics facing our nation today, we decided to ask our fans and following audience on Facebook to articulate a message to the following question, for a [...]

By OcJim Like many others I thought the election of a black president marked the end of bias and racism in our country. Even the coded — He’s not one of us – rather unsubtle suggestion, portrayed by birthers and Tea Partyers against Barack Obama might be seen as the last vestiges of racism. But recent events have prompted me [...]

By Kenny Smith In an intriguing piece written for the New York Times, journalist David Segal traces out some of the early consequences of President Obama’s October 2009 announcement that federal law enforcement will no longer prosecute users and suppliers of medical marijuana, provided they are in compliance with state laws. In Colorado, where a November 2000 amendment to the [...]

(On a pragmatic note, readers should interchange my use of the word ‘football’ for ‘soccer’.) The 2012 African Cup of Nations concluded this evening, with the final squaring off Ivory Coast against Zambia. Did you watch it? This was a magnificently dramatic game between one of the best teams in world football and a team of unknowns and underdogs competing [...]

Note: “Fluid Ink” is Taboo Jive’s ‘Facebook Fan page of the Week’ kicking off 2012. Please read Rainer’s story of how it all got started and follow her work by finding the link to her fan page at the end of her story below…enjoy! – TJ By Rainer Galea This story begins as all stories do, with a thought, which [...]