By: James Daniels With Ron Paul’s second consecutive straw poll victory, are we seeing a beginning of a tide shift in US politics? Recent trends in the US have been toward bigger government with our latest President being a proponent of such. Talk of universal healthcare has been at…
By: EinsteinLite A colleague used to visit my cube and say something like “Hitch-em-up’s at it again” and we’d both chuckle with understated glee. By this he meant that the notorious Christopher Hitchens had penned yet another controversial article and that I must absorb it as quickly as possible.…
By: Thomas Hinderick It's an interesting question. One that perhaps has been widely publicized this past week on the Internet and other media by numerous pundits wanting to get in on the spectacle. What I'm talking about is the set in the Lionel Logue's office scenes in The King's…
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.
Our parents had the Hippies, our older siblings had the Punks; and from the looks of things, we're stuck with the Hipsters. I'm not trying to write a rant condemning all Hipsters (although with sufficient reader feedback I'd be happy to!) Instead, I'm just trying to make sense of what seems to be one of our generation's most visible cultural products.
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.
...throughout history we have been using drugs to treat a number of ailments from anxiety, depression, and obsession to colds, pneumonia and mal health. Yet, in contemporary culture we have developed a bias towards drugs, in fact even the name “drug” has carried with it a negative connotation. We have lost the connection with ancient, natural remedies and resorted entirely to new medications,: chemicals which are not only dangerous but possibly the downfall of our species