By: Alexander Cain New Year’s Day is often a time to reflect on the past and make new promises for the future. The state of Arizona used the opportunity to enact the end of ethnic studies in the state. The bill, HB 2281, bans schools in Arizona public…
By: Jim Hoover Do you have mind-numbing headaches, chronic constipation – or antithetically, worrisome diarrhea? Do you have embarrassing gas that gags others in a crowded room -- something like sewer exhaust? Does your stomach churn like a runaway sauna or does it ache like a mule kick? Do…
By: Mike Thurau 12 years ago, a movie titled Mystery Men hit theaters. For a Ben Stiller movie, it wasn’t half bad and it was a pleasant departure from reality into the world of six misfit superheros. It was good mindless fun, but it left me with a lingering…
Thus, what Post-Graffiti and graffiti achieve is almost the exact same: the expression of art in an urbanized environment. And while each individual artist has a different reason, purpose, and style in what they're doing with their art, they do each share an essential quality of repurposing originally bland architecture that people run over without noticing until paint (be legal or not) covers it.
It's not that surprising to hear people make jokes about for-profit colleges like Devry, University of Phoenix, ITT Tech, and the like, and the illegitimacy of the type of education they offer.
Since the inception of the Tea Party movement in late 2007, the protestors and members of the party have continually bastardized and misquoted the thoughts and theories of the Founding Fathers and other less capable thinkers, like Ayn Rand.
She grabs her son who's crying, lifts him forcefully up in this jerking motion, and then screams word for word, "You've ruined my life! You're always crying!" Right into the kid's face. She then promptly disappears back to her car, or wherever, leaving my friend and me to scratch our collective heads and wonder what the hell was that all about. And then we laughed.
...Wikileaks has been silenced. The contents of the leaked packets of information is unsettling enough and just about any media outlet with its finger anywhere near America’s pulse has jumped all over them and produced a cacophony of analyses and moral sentiments ranging from the outraged to the furious.
As I read the analysis’s of Laughner’s patchwork manifestos and cobbled-together, text based video blogs on the various news and opinion sites I frequent, I am struck both by how desperately the reasonable among us are trying to make sense of this rampage and how futile their efforts are. The only place the actions of Jared Laughner made sense was in his own deformed mind, and it is not unreasonable to suggest that they no longer make sense there either.
Facebook, if used properly, could be such a tool for liberation that the structure of society would be turned on its head and we would all be liberated from our very structured and protected lives.