News and opinion from around US-opolis for Tuesday, July 12, 2011
UPDATED with Presidential press conference. News and opinion from around US-opolis for Monday, July 11, 2011
While scientists remain puzzled as to the cause of the dramatic decline in honeybee populations in North America and elsewhere, some are speculating the cause may very much be human related; however, not technological, but philosophical. It appears that...
I am a Virginian born and bred. My mother's people were Virginians before Virginia was Virginia. They met the first settlers when they arrived to found Jamestown in 1607. One married John Rolfe. She rests a few miles down...
Is there a person who hasn’t visited a zoo, or watched a documentary, and said “Oh, How adorable, how cool, how awesome...I want one!
That would be me! I love giraffes, (and I’m 5’ tall -go figure!! :) ) I...
November 27, 2009
Dear Journal,
I can't believe Brett Favre came back for another season. They're not even going to make the playoffs. Wish someone payed me $20 million to waste their fucking time for 4 months out of the year....
Excerpts from an article by Henry Giroux on the moral responsibilities we have to each other and our society in the face of a second Guilded Age.
News and opinion from around US-opolis for Friday, July 8, 2011
Below is the verbatim script from an encounter with an entity I will call Helpful Comcast Unit. I am Grumpy User. I am still trying to decide whether my Helpful Comcast Unit was a living breathing person or some...
News and opinion from around US-opolis for Thursday, July 7, 2011
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