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.
By: Natasha Scott It’s funny how people who have cheated always try to say they're addicted to sex instead of stating the real reason why they cheated. Sex is a part of life, to some people its a BIG deal and to others it doesn’t really matter. People cheat…
By: Daniel Welsh So what was so radical about the American Revolution? Well, Gordon Wood, professor of history emeritus at Brown University, proposes that the radicalism that sustained and bred society as we know it wasn't quite that radical. In fact, most of us today would probably scoff at…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Qd4QMODnCc&feature=player_embedded by Jim Hoover The above Youtube video connection documents George W. Bush’s total lack of interest in Osama bin Laden in 2006. Bush's statement five years ago is of particular interest in light of Barack Obama's success in ridding us of bin Laden. What I call “Fabrication Central”…
By: Ryan Nathan I met Mary Kay Andrews once. She said that she wrote "commercial, pop fiction just to make money." We've all seen it. Those books you find while waiting in line at the grocery store, at airports, news stands, wherever—it's all pretty invasive. Commercial fiction. The all…
By: Jim Hoover Now that the great recession has drug down the great bulk of Americans, who is left to support the top 2% greed glut? The answer is Beijing. Republicans forced the continuation of the tax cuts for the rich on pliant Democrats, so now we can borrow…
By Jim Hoover Barack, I know you have been busy. I followed your schedule last week. While House Republicans were trying to reinvent the truth about their House voting against Medicare, you were producing your long-form birth certificate to shame Trump, who has none; comforting disaster victims in the…
By: Jeremy Mydril Imagine what it would look like if Leon Trotsky was reincarnated into a seventeen-year-old Canadian high school student who tries to unionize the students of his public high school, and that's what 'The Trotsky' was all about. Leon Bronstein (played by Jay Baruchel) is a disenfranchised…
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…
By: Fred Buntril Viktor Frankl is, among other things, both a psychiatrist and a Holocaust survivor. While reading his book Man's Search For Meaning, those are the two most important biographic pieces throughout the book. What he does that's perhaps different and unique compared to many other theorists and…