Welcome to Ray’s “Boom-Boom” Room. So recently, I came across a facebook post that I was completely in agreement with: "Remember when teachers, public employees, Planned Parenthood, NPR and PBS crashed the stock market, wiped out half of our 401Ks, took hundreds of billions in TARP money, spilled…
By Jim Hoover Consumed with an ideology that would leave plutocratic boots on the necks of the middle class, ruthless Republicans have let loose a conflagration that will incinerate all that we have and all that our children and grandchildren could hope to achieve. Republican visions of heaven are…
By: Jackson Newtyl Brandon Wade, the brainchild behind the dating site, Seekingarrangement.com, recently came out with another dating service called, Whatsyourprice.com, and it’s become virtually indistinguishable from prostitution. Worst than Craigslist’s penchant for attracting unsavory and licentious customers, Whatsyourprice.com has gone a step further for dating sites by being…
Everybody has an opinion on PDA. and let’s ask ourselves how many times have we seen a couple making intense ‘face-time’ at the park, local coffee shop, or some random corner of Walmart and have really thought to ourselves, “Oh, to be in love!”? Most of the people I’ve…
By: Ray Rife – raysbbr@gmail.com Welcome to Ray’s “Boom-Boom” Room. I feel like I may be tooting my own horn in this instance, but helping someone to move is a true confirmation in friendship. Moving is terrible. So many people move differently. You can have the late packer who…
By: Michael Tuosto The Orwellian vision of a perpetual war going on “over there” is becoming eerily relevant. Elisabeth Bumiller and Kereem Fahim reported in The New York Times that, “Pentagon officials are eager to extract the United States from a third armed conflict in a Muslim country as…
By: Skye Lyon Fathoming the concept of existence and/or absence in the cosmos can be overwhelming to us. No one truly knows…and will most likely never fully understand what lies beyond the threads of our puny galaxy. Are we alone? Are we created in a specific design to fulfill…
By: Ms. Henry In the United States, disparities between rich and poor have risen sharply and individuals are increasingly unlikely to escape from their economic position. There are few stories of how someone made it from “rags to riches,” and families are increasing their annual working hours, if they have…
By: Geoffrey Yonil The porn industry finally got its own Wikileaks. What does this necessarily mean? I mean, in an industry that's practically built on transparency, how the hell can they have their own Wikileaks scandal going on? Well, it's quite simple. The Netherlands-based site, while using the original…
By: J. Norice Historically, child support has been thought of to serve as a middle ground between two parents to financially support the child. Modern day child support cases don’t always work that way. Typically money is taken out of the paycheck of the payer, which is usually the…