By: Frank Thompson First off, I'd like to apologize for putting up a story that turned out to be completely false and framing it as if it were true. Unfortunately, like everyone, I am bound to be mislead at times. But then I began surfing the web to see…
By OcJim Who are the people responsible for the starvation of education in America and the heartless treatment of the vulnerable? We all have a role in this disgrace, but the biggest role can be laid at the feet of the rich -- most notably, Wall Street marauders, conservative…
The role that the educational system should play in the lives of individuals is to educate them to be conscious, critically thinking individuals who do not passively accept knowledge but question the knowledge that is being taught to them. Education should be taught to give students the skills and…
By OcJim Now that Mitt has released his 2010 tax statement, we can breathe easier knowing, by example, how the rich do it. Ergo, we can become as rich as Mitt. Instead of envying the rich from afar, we can watch rich in our own mirrors behind closed doors.…
By: Johnny Bint Current legislation going through the United States Congress is sparking rapid debate throughout the country and beyond about the future of the internet. SOPA, (Stop Online Piracy Act) going through the House of Representatives, essentially marks a proposed censorship blow to the internet, allowing the government…
TO: SWEDISH PRIME MINISTER FREDRIK REINFELDT We ask you to defend the fundamental human rights of ALL Swedish citizens, and do everything in your power to eliminate Sweden's outdated "forced sterilization" law. The majority of Parliament is in favor of the law's removal - but progress is being thwarted…
According to string theory, the universe has not just three or four dimensions, but eleven dimensions, ten of space and one of time. We do not observe the extra spatial dimensions because they are curled tightly around each other. The most distant galaxy ever observed is estimated to be…
By Tom Hastings Conflict can be understood as the motor of change, that which keeps relationships and social structures honest, alive, and dynamically responsive to human needs, aspirations, and growth. (Lederach, 2003, p. 18). When John Paul Lederach writes about conflict, he makes it sound like conflict is our…
By OcJim Experiencing the insanity of several self-absorbed Republican candidates, I have put together some thoughts for and responses to politicians, especially the Republicans who have mottled the public [pubic] airwaves with their self-serving babble and Bible. For Rick Santorum, his stands on sex, birth control, abortion, and marriage:…
By: Fred Manton Eyewitness accounts say that Obama's Administration put on a White House 'Alice in Wonderland' hi-tea party in the middle of the Great Recession back in Halloween 2009. Best part was that Tim Burton and Johnny Depp helped put the party on. No one knew about it…