Freedom
What does freedom mean? Does it relate more to the political definition: “the absence of interference with the sovereignty of an individual by the use of coercion or aggression” Or the philosophical argument: “the idea of being free, is a…
Category World Issues
The Awakening
by Sonny Carroll A time comes in your life when you finally get it…when, in the midst of all your fears and insanity, you stop dead in your tracks and somewhere the voice inside your head cries out…ENOUGH! Enough fighting…
Extreme Respect for Our Military
So a strange thing happened this weekend… I was on a pub crawl for hallowe’en which consisted of 5 bars and many drinks. After the crawl, my buddy Dean and I, and his friend/colleague Tom (owner of the company that…
We Didn’t Start the Fire – Billy Joel
In case you haven’t heard this great song by Billy Joel, I recommend listening to it before reading the rest of this post…you can listen here: Just today, while listening to some Billy Joel, I was reintroduced to this great…
I Eat 33,000 Calories a Day
Dear God, I really thought that I had seen everything. Apparently not. Check this out: On this show, they featured 4 people who were morbidly obese. One guy consumed 36,000 calories in one day. More than a normal man should…
Google Blurring Sensitive Map Information
Check out this story from Slashdot: link here Apparently Google Maps is blurring out images of sensitive location, such as the 2 locations in the link above (one is a nuclear research facility on a university campus in the States, and…
Election Campaign Monies
So I’m going to keep this short, but here goes: Tonight on Anderson Cooper 360 on CNN, there was a report on the 2008 presidential campaign, and the reporter made a statement to the effect that in order for a…