"Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bK-Dqj4fHmM
Who would have thought that the best advice for America in a motion picture would have come from Dean Vernon Wormer's reprimand of Flounder in Animal House?
America is...
Probably not but in another amazingly corporate friendly decision a Federal appeals court struck down the FCC ability to prevent Comcast from punishing it's own internet users. The court vacated a 2008 "net neutrality" ruling that guaranteed users...
I think we all recognize that poverty in our nation has increased in the past three years, but what is not so much discussed is that it has been increasing steadily over the past 10 years. In the past...
I. History of Nowruz
Imagine it’s the fifth century before the Common Era, on a plain bejeweled with a magnificent palace complex and flowing gardens, with the coffee brown Zagros mountains in the distance, and a sky the color of...
A Few Samples
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If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty and they live in peace and happiness.
Voltaire
This is the last article...
The GOP appeals to the child in people (just look at the cartoonish characters representing it in the media and Congress).
The child they appeal to is the one that throws tantrums, beats up weaker kids for their milk money,...
Tonight begins the eight day holiday of Passover, the oldest continuing celebration among Jews. In Judaism, there are three ways, or levels, of explaining a tradition or a text—the “simple” or face value meaning (Peshat), the story behind the...
The Grateful Dead must be rolling in their joints. As described in the NYT:
On Wednesday, the California secretary of state certified a November vote on a ballot measure that would legalize, tax and regulate marijuana, a plan...
As I began this section, The Players and Their Organizations, I realized they could not be covered in one post. So what I will do is touch on The Family here and do a more detailed post on them next....
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