By: Thomas Reyour While many are perhaps overzealously reveling and celebrating the death of Osama bin Laden, I propose that rather than throwing up our hands, screaming, "Ding, Dong, bin Laden's dead!" that we rather take this moment in history in silent reflection. Thousands upon thousands dead, civil liberties…
'Taboo Jive' Review By: Brandon Abbott While searching for some community blogs, I came across Taboo Jive. This site is, as they state, is a virtual discussion board debating the controversial. And they do just that. I browsed the site a bit, and came across some very eye-opening topics…
By: J. Kam I recently became aware of a horrific crime which occurred in January 2007 in Knoxville, Tennessee. I live in another state and was told about this by my husband who read an article online. The crime to which I refer to is the brutal torture and…
Recently, I was at my boyfriend's house taking a shower. Not the easiest thing for me to do. I feel more like a rhino in an elevator bumping into all the sides (It’s a small shower). He has an automatic shower scrubber. You know, the ones that hang there…
By: James Daniels Most people could not wait for the Bush years to be over. With a deficit that was increasing at a mind-boggling rate, unpopular wars, and a host of other major problems, the country was ready for a change. And who could have been better to replace…
By: James Daniels Have you ever seen the Simpson’s episode titled Homer’s Enemy? It is about a man named Frank Grimes who has worked hard for his entire life to get essentially the same job as Homer Simpson. Although their routes in life were very different, they ended up…
By Michael Tuosto When a specific situation challenges my own beliefs about what the role of government is, it fascinates me to no end. That is exactly what a recent Supreme Court ruling has done and what Adam Liptak writes about it in his New York Times article, entitled…
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…
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: Air Brin When I say ‘they’ I mean some type of psychiatric professional who has been trained by some other psychiatric professionals. I don’t mean the inner voice screaming at you day in and day out. Of course, if that voice is screaming at you from outside of…