By: Dan Minchkin Un Chien Andalou (which translates An Andalusian Dog) was directed Luis Bunuel and written by both Bunuel and Salvador Dali. If you're unfamiliar with Bunuel's work, then you should at least be familiar with Dali's iconic surrealist work, which comes across in the 1929 silent surrealistic…
By OcJim How do we put the universe perspective into our insular lives? All we have to do is wrap ourselves around that perspective. For example, of the 5 fundamental cosmic constituents, dark energy, dark matter, atomic matter, light and neutrinos, we are made from atomic matter, which is…
Created By Paul Kelly Maryborough, Australia Why This Is Important A loophole in Queensland law allows people accused of murder to defend themselves in court by claiming “gay panic” -- that is, if someone who they think is gay “comes onto” them, the sheer panic they feel is partial justification…
By: Geoffrey Yonil Many people use the argument that if you get rid of porn then we'll return to sexual repressiveness and henceforth end up in an age pre-Sexual Revolution when women were still relegated to domestic and maternal duties and men wore fedoras and smoked pipes in bathrobes.…
Dealing with massive amounts of hate mail and the negative, life sucking energy that comes with it can be difficult to handle emotionally -- especially when the hate is directed at a group of people who only want to perpetuate, focus on and promote the importance of love. Below are…
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…
“The divorce rate of inter-racial marriages is 75%. It is believed that many who engage in mixed unions have profound emotional problems and/or are drug users. Often they seek to mock society's norms or are in rebellion against their parents.
By: Andrea Elizabeth There is much to be learned and said for the positive effects of masturbation. So be careful with condemning your children if you catch them in the act or they approach you with questions. Often when you respond negatively to this behavior you can inadvertently perpetuate…
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:…