Energy: Dippers, Deniers, & Dupes

By OcJim The issue of energy policy seems to bring out the dippers, the deniers, and the dupes. James Inhofe, the Senator from Oklahoma, is a denier of climate change and an airplane dipper who last year landed his aircraft at the closed Cameron County Airport in Port Isabel,…

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Crash Test Dummies — Mmmm Mmm Mmmmm

Each verse describes the isolation and suffering of a child, two of whom have a physical abnormality; a boy whose hair has prematurely whitened from shock and a girl covered in birthmarks. The third child is a boy whose parents take him with them to their church, where they 'shake…

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Great Ancient African Civilizations

There have been many misconceptions about the lives of Africans before the advent of European and American colonization. According to some historians, Africans were nothing more than savages whose only contributions to the world were farming and slaves. However, this is not true. The history of ancient Africa is…

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Celebrating Acceptance: Dad gets “Born This Way” Tattoo!!

By Ron Kemp What a marvelous story of acceptance!!  At a time when we’re grasping and struggling for acceptance, at a time when we’re losing teen after teen after LGBT teen to suicide because of a lack thereof, we get this heartwarming story from Jessica Romani about her brother,…

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Snow (Hey oh) — Red Hot Chili Peppers

"Snow (Hey Oh)" is a song from the Red Hot Chili Pepper's Grammy–winner 2006 double album, Stadium Arcadium. The song was released as the follow-up single to "Tell Me Baby" on November 20, 2006 and became the band's third straight number one hit on the Billboard Modern Rock chart, a spot…

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The Will to Comfort

By: Eddie Vince It was Albert Camus that postulated that we must look at Sisyphus, the Ancient Greek myth of a king punished by the gods to roll the same boulder up a hill for eternity, and picture him as happy. Camus looked into the face of the absurdity…

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