Shared By: Tom Hastings The Occupy movement is submerging faster than it's growing. There are two manifestations of an underlying primary problem causing this in my town, Portland OR, and I suspect it's not entirely dissimilar elsewhere. Symptom #1: Street people magnet As one of my students and a…
The time change is going to screw up my dogs again! If you have inside pets, then you know they are creatures of habit. They will follow the schedule of the human master. However, when the clocks go springing, they have NO clue. They know when their bladders are…
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By: Thomas Vyncent The Zeitgeist Movement is like communism, democracy, and every science fiction movie and book you've ever seen, read, or heard about. In essence, it proposes that we, as a modern society, are steadily moving towards an apocalyptic world due to a lack of sustainability. This is…
Seems that there are some women in Zimbabwe that got arrested for sexually assaulting males for their sperm. Supposedly, it wards off evil spirits or possesses some kind of other supernatural powers other than preserving the human species, if that isn’t enough, right?. Now, this really piqued my interest…
By: Jackson Stevens With headlines ripped straight out of a Charles Dickens novel, finding out that a homeless man gets 15 years for stealing $100 while another man (richer, of course) gets only a 40-month slap-on-the-wrist sentence for committing one of the US's largest corporate fraud cases by stealing…
At a recent ladies weekend in the middle of Northern Michigan, we needed food and booze. So a few of us headed down the road to the local Bait/ Liquor/ Grocery store. It's in one of those long pole buildings that the owner has been forced to diversify just…
After almost nine years, 4,479 fatalities, 33,169 soldiers wounded, 12,000 Iraqi civilian deaths and an almost a trillion dollars spent, the Iraq war is finally over. In a press conference Friday, President Obama announced that U.S. troops will be pulled out of Iraq by the end of the year,…
By: Tom Hastings @ Hastings on Nonviolence Wall Street is certainly a locus of appropriate focus for a movement that hopes to break the cycle of extreme disparity of wealth and income in our world, but the Pentagon may actually be a better place to contend. Why? Without violence…
The always controversial 25 year old, Lindsay Lohan, reportedly showed up 40 minutes late for community service work today because she says she got lost and didn't know what door to use - she tweeted after saying “I’m sorry for the confusion that I may of caused to those…