April 14th, 2008
While listening to the the Senate hearings last week on the conflict in Iraq, I became sick to my stomach by the way the politicians were demanding clear cut answers, but also by comments that were made.
April 4th, 2008
April 4 has a couple of interesting items that have made an impact on society. One that’s helped lead mankind forward digitally, the other helped lead mankind forward, somewhat, through civil rights.
December 29th, 2007
For O.J. Simpson, the latest blow may be one of the most humiliating for former public figures. It’s one that clearly knocks him off any possible remaining pedestal.
December 5th, 2007
People often say, “It’s all a matter of perspective,” but many times when other say it, it is because you are going through a rough time.
December 1st, 2007
A British teacher, Gillian Gibbons, went to teach this year at a school in Sudan that has, for almost 100 years, been run along the lines of Christianity. Not long after the school year began, Gibbons was arrested and charged with “insulting Islam’s Prophet Mohammed.”
When Gibbons went to teach at Unity, which is but one of several British schools in the country, she taught in classrooms hidden behind tall brick walls that shut out, what one news outlet described as the dust of everyday Sudanese life. The walls serve another purpose, according to various media reports, which say it serves to transport visitors into the shady courtyard of an Oxford or a Cambridge University-type setting or that of an English private school.
January 20th, 2007
It’s been a year since a federal law has gone into effect that makes it a crime to harass anyone online.
November 9th, 2006
Society has long known that people are attracted to members of the opposite sex, or, in some cases, the same sex, for a variety of reasons. Sexuality, attraction, and what brings people together involves chemistry, looks, and a lot more than that. It’s about meeting needs.
September 28th, 2006
Long before 1492 when good ol’ Chris Columbus set sail on Wednesday, August 3, 1492, with the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria, groups of people, collectively called in my-speak, injuns. I prefer the term injuns as opposed to terms in Newspeak, PC or politically correct terms such as “Native Americans” or whatever. Anyone born in the U.S. could claim to be “native American,” but then comes that issue of capitalization of the “N” in native. Since many folks don’t even speak properly, let alone know how to write a complete sentence, much less worry about punctuation, capitalization, and other petty issues, I prefer to stick with a word everyone can understand. Since I am an injun, I will use it. If you take offence, great. Offend yourself all you want.
