By: Gahdly Popawitchen This is a bit of a throwback in terms of film reviews. Many have been raving about the recent film The Social Network. And while I'm not disputing its already-proven critical acclaim, I will go out on a limb and state that Jesse Eisenberg has done…
By: Ray Rife raysbbr@gmail.com Eldrick “Tiger” Woods. (Wait.) What was your initial reaction when you read that name? Disgust? Pity? Hatred? Respect? Awe? I’m sure for many people what they thought of Tiger Woods prior to Thanksgiving weekend 2009 has changed since then. Tiger was dominant on the golf…
By: Ray Rife - raysbbr@gmail.com Imagine you’re a college student at a prestigious institution of higher learning taking a human sexuality class. You discuss the Kinsey Report and all the things traditionally associated with human sexuality. Then one day, your professor tells you about an after-class, optional lecture about…
By: Jim Hoover Republicans are united in pettiness and vindictiveness. If that isn’t enough, they lie with impunity; for a media that checks veracity has long fled the American scene. The neo-conservative paradigm they must follow requires certain generic qualities; that is, if they don’t want to be drummed out of the…
By: Gina Volpe New studies released show that one in five divorce petitions cites Facebook. Well, duh. Aside from the obvious conclusion that Facebook allows you to spot and then divorce the jerks who feature acoustic guitars in their default photos and post badly-written, inane status updates; communicating with…
By: Gina Volpe Another day, another reason to stick my head in the oven. The latest black cloud on the horizon? Several states are considering laws that would require drug testing for welfare recipients, including those who receive unemployment benefits. I understand having to pass a drug test when…
How comfortable those seem to be while living their lives inside a shell of conformity. Traditions surround us everywhere we go, in everything we do, especially in what we wear, how we talk, and what television programs we decide to follow. Imagine yourself for a moment floating alone in…
By: Anthony Knolls The interesting thing about the Internet is that it has magnified man's nature to gossip and to reveal things that were meant to be kept secret and spread them all over its digital canvas. Case in point, Wikileaks. Yet still many people don't know that Leonardo…
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.
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.