This is my first new post in 4 years. I stepped away for school and work. I'm here to pose a question. Why is it freedom is so selective? The current analogue is Tibet, of course. You may have heard of it. Tibetans want to be independent, as they were. China, the new bully in town, says no way! Everyone feels for them, some protest, but there is no major multilateral front from any government or institution. Why? Because it's effing China.&nb...
In a recent political quiz, according to the National Annenberg Election Survey, viewers of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart scored higher than viewers of the Jay Leno and David Letterman late night shows comparatively. Viewers of all three shows did score higher than people that don't watch late-night tv with the statistics stating 49% of Letterman and Leno viewers got a perfect score on the quiz but 60% of Daily Show viewers had a perfect score. Daily show viewers also seem to score...
Disclaimer: The following post is a compilation of a few allegations made by the Union of Concerned Scientists as well as tid bits from other facts that I came across while doing research. This post is meant to inform of the unethical scientific polices within the Bush administration. This is for people seeking facts that are willing to consider both sides. Read at your own discretion. Copernicus and Galileo, two revolutionary thinkers t...
At work today, we decided that we should order out as a group and get some good food. One of my co-workers suggested we order her favorite food from a local Chinese place not too far from our office building. She told us that her favorite food was Chinese which she hadn't had in a while. This sparked some furious debate between my colleagues and myself and people brought up some interesting favorite foods. One mentioned Thai food as his favorite on the merit that it's spi...
It's good to have a nice life. A life that reflects our ideals, beliefs, and desires. Some people get to witness this higher plain of life so to speak. This higher plain, for the most part, must be worked for in order to achieve it. I know that someday I want to have a professional career but what exactly motivates me to want this? I want to live my life the way I want it while reaching success. Currently I am working towards it and I focus on w...
Last Thursday the Senate Judiciary Committee took a look at a new bill that was proposed last month by Senator Orrin Hatch (Republican - Utah) and Senator Patrick Leahy (Democrat - Vermont) that would basically make any company liable that encourages people to pirate copyrighted material. At first glance one can assume that this bill is a positive proposal that will help stop all the pirating that is currently plagueing the movie, software, and music industry. Upo...
A few months back I wrote a blog and went off on a rant. It was to showcase my extreme discontent and passive venting, at what I had discovered in the morning. It seems my favorite morning talk show, titled the Howard Stern show, had been taken off the air. Shocked as I was, I was also outraged considering all the enforcing the FCC had been doing at that time. I also knew they had pressured Clear Channel to drop him from the Orlando market, among other cities,&n...
On January 14th of this year a friend of mine recommended I visit a site called Joeuser, a site where you can write blogs. I was relatively clueless about what blogs where at the time and only paid attention to the address he gave me. Needless to say my curiosity compelled me to check out the site the very next day. What I found was not expected and I felt much the same way when one randomly finds an answer to a question they had forgotten. I was perplexed at t...
A few years back I was at a carnival with my then girlfriend at one of the games which you play to win certain prizes. Needless to say machismo took over and I emptied my resources on the game. The game consisted of shooting an air-gun at balloons that were 20 feet away. After many tries and with much bravado I actually won in a flurry of popped balloons. I gave my girlfriend the “I told you so” look at which point she pointed at my empty wallet. Although I wasted more money than I would...
The value of a human life is difficult to define, in a more simplistic sense it is priceless. No one can truly know the potential contribution an individual may or may not provide for themselves and/or humankind. Without speaking too general, changes can only be made by the individual's will. This brings me to my point about justice. Justice in itself is also very hard to define. There are different forms of justice; personal justice, moral justice, and societal law....
Humanity in itself is a unique as it is similar. We all go through pretty much the same stages in life. We grow up and want to establish ourselves and leave an imprint on this world. When it comes to our behavior we can all mostly be categorized into groups. Physically you are part of an ethnic or racial class. Economically you are poor, middle class, or rich. Unfortunately these same groups create division in the form of being prejudiced. The question which I ponder is what if we all ...
I recently read an article that asked a shocking question. Would I be for a draft or against a draft for the Iraq war. I would prefer not being drafted, but what would every other young American under 26 think? I know that there hasn't been a draft since Vietnam, how could there considering that tragedy. But what if in the year 2005 the U.S. government decides they need to draft to stop this war? Would the masses be against it or rise to the occassion? That same article which led me to ...
Maybe I am crazy but I am not one to usually get depressed and/or sad. I am not impartial to other emotions considering sometimes I am outraged, content, ecstatic, etc etc, but I rarely am down and or in a state of sorrow. There is one thing that gets me down that I am encouraged to share. As I woke up this morning at the inhumane time of 6:00 am to come into work, I got up and got ready and followed my usual Sunday morning routine operating like machinery and made it to work right when th...
I was at the movie theater last night, where I went to go watch Kill Bill vol. 2 which unfortunately was sold out at 1:00 am. Due to the sell out I ended up watching Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind which I might add is a decent movie, but that is besides the point. I was watching the previews considering I arrived a little too early, and I saw a preview to a movie starring Mandy Moore titled Saved! . The movie basically was kind of a teen date movie but was about religion and I coul...
In reading and watching all the latest international news it is disconcerting to see that we are still fighting the same war that has raged for centuries. I speak of this so-called holy war between the "crusaders" and the muslims. It has been raging for centuries, this struggle of religions. The Muslim world (extremists that is) now embraces the notion that they are fighting the western world or crusaders for their God..Allah. The country that they are fighting in this era is the U.S. whi...