Operation, NOT Confiscation. Can We Agree on Gun Safety?
Spot one to the NRA and you gun fans: Guns don’t kill people. People under the influence, suffering from mental impairment, temporary or permanent, and those with aggression and rage … Continue reading
Mainlining Sugar and Salt: How Sucrose/Fructose Poisons World Diets
Would you buy your infant a Bud? How about your toddler? When you feed your infant formula with purified fructose, or your kid sucks down a Coke or a Gatorade … Continue reading
Gay is not Okay in the Chicken Cult: Chick-Fil-A’s Qualified Promise to the LGBT Community
OPINION – Last week, several news outlets reported that Chick-fil-A had promised to stop giving to anti-Gay groups after the fast food chain became the center of a turbulent social … Continue reading
Why Negative Political Attack Ads Work: 5 in 10 Americans Can’t Read, 8 in 10 Can’t Process
Negative political ads work. A majority of Americans form political opinions from ads in their entertainment programming. 51% of the adult population of the United States is barely functionally literate. … Continue reading
An Elephant May Never Forget, but the GOP and a Greedy Media Sure Hope Like Hell That You Will
An elephant may never forget, but the elephants of the GOP are sure hoping that you will, well, overlook a few inconvenient truths in their march to bring back 19th … Continue reading
Protest By Flash Mob: The Web Reinvents Econ-Political Unrest from Cairo to Cleveland
From Egypt to the streets of suburban Cleveland, the Internet is reshaping how the young, from the disenfranchised to the bored and angry, gather, vent their rage and express themselves. … Continue reading
A Moment of Reflection on Government Policy and the Real World, with Whales.
I sit in front of a panoramic window, looking out at the vastness of the Pacific, after a few days of holiday that, perhaps aptly, was taken as the crisis … Continue reading
Voice of the Clueless Generation. American: The Bill Hicks Story (Movie Review)
Dustin Hoffman doesn’t play him in the movie. I’m not sure who could play comedian Bill Hicks and get all of his complexity. The eighties’ Lenny Bruce, he lived the … Continue reading
Mr. Holland Won’t Get His Final Opus – Where Obama’s Education Agenda & Reality Collide
Wayne A. Miller, Band Director of the A.W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts in West Palm Beach, FLA., is a real-life Mr. Holland, a music educator whose department was selected … Continue reading
Why Isn’t Academia Preparing Our Children for Business And Life? Ringing (Out) the IQ Bell
Children want to be astronauts, firemen, policemen, and clowns. College students get degrees in philosophy, poetry, and various majors ending in “studies.” For every Neil Armstrong there are a bunch … Continue reading
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