By: Jeremy Mydril Historically, Edwin Abbott is perhaps best known as one the premiere 19th-century theologians of his time, writing multiple novels and texts about religion and grammar (exclusively). But he did also venture into fiction, if only briefly—actually only once—with Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, which is…
By Diva Dee Ok. So I got this aching tooth, right? I’m sure nothing’s wrong cuz I was just at the dentist 4 years ago. What can go wrong in 4 years? So anyway, I am a sincere believer that one must give the body a chance to heal…
By: Jim Hoover We’ve had the Barney Madoff scam affecting hundreds and the Wall Street scam perpetrated by hundreds and affecting millions. Now it’s the Harold Camping scam affecting billions. Scams are all around us. We have conmen in politics who fool voters into voting them into office and…
By: Jim Hoover Princeton University professor, Cornel West, is bitterly disappointed in Barack Obama. Like many of us, he bought the egalitarian rhetoric Obama used doing the campaign and fought for his election. Now like many of us, he feels betrayed. “The system is rigged against poor and working…
“Trust me, you will rue the day you sat home and did nothing while thieves posing as politicians stole your Great Lakes State from you.” Stated Michael Moore in his “Letter to my Fellow Michiganders” on www.MichaelMoore.com. Michael Moore is an Academy-Award winning filmmaker and best-selling author. He is…
Ms. Henry For the past two years and two months, I have resided in a garbage can. The smells of old garbage, urine, and human funk permeate the air of my surroundings, and stray cats yowl in the middle of the night. The garbage can where I live actually…
Ms. Henry I am a writer who does not write as much as I should. I have some talent, but I do not have the passion that is truly necessary to be a writer because most of my passion is being used to find full-time employment. It’s hard being…
While out bar hopping with a girlfriend, we ran into her older brother. He's a guy that I have known many years. A rather a nice looking, tall fella with a thick build. He has a certain ruggedness to him that lets you know he's the outdoors type. He’s…
By: Jim Hoover In his braggadocio, pouty-lips way, Donald Trump boasts of eliciting tax breaks and garnering other favorable treatment from the government (us) in a constant game of manipulating government agencies and government officials, according to a LA Times article on May 11th. The article notes that he…
The social stigma that goes along with being listed on the sex offender registry is in many cases a lifelong punishment of public ridicule and shame as well as potential vigilantism against the registrant.