O.J. Simpson, You Have the Brain-Wave Activity of a Cyprus Stump, written 1 week ago,

Documents the travels and musings of two young college graduates concerned with the inflexibility of the American work culture. Instead of getting real jobs, they started a non-profit that documents young professionals' perspectives

A Long Hard Journey, written 1 day ago, Over the last number of weeks the headlines have been full of news stories related to finances: the $700 billion bail out of Wall Street financial institutions; AIG needing the federal government to "lend" them operations money, then spending nearly ...

Sage Francis: 'Makeshift Patriot', written 1 week ago, Today I just want to promote/congratulate this guy. I've never really been into hip-hop much, but having come to a growing realisation that most good things in any genre will be hard to find, I did some research. And Sage Francis stood out for m...

Who's Running the McCain Campaign?, written 8 hours ago,

The Immorality of Racism, written 1 day ago, It has been asserted by various wags, some of them thoughtful, others less so, that there is some fundamental flaw by way of apology of racism in blacks who are conservative and travel in Republican circles. I speak for myself. My interest in racism is pr...

The Crash: The beginning of the end…, written 2 days ago, The response to the post on complexity theory and the financial crises has been very positive. Been recieving lots of positive feedback, thank you to any who have written or commented. Several people, including Steven Johnson, the author of...

Product Concepts Best Left Undeveloped, Part VI, written 1 day ago, A fully illustrated children's pop-up book of the Bob Dylan song "Desolation Row."       

Serves the purpose of monitoring current events to determine if our world is becoming more like the world described in the novel 1984. Thought Criminal is an expose into government corruption, political shell games, invasion of privacy and the new world o

Civilianism #70 / Don't Panic, Just Pay Attention, written 4 days ago, What is going on in the United States lately? The signs are not good. We need to pay attention and notice the things that normally slide under the radar and then broadcast them to everyone we can. I'm talking about the election a...

Blog Makes Friends, written 2 weeks ago, Our frog is named Blog. There is no excuse for names; it is just how our mother identified us. That is why some folks are named Adelma and most aren't.One morning, Blog woke up from his dream of peace and discovered that he could not pronounce "Ribit&quo...

Does Senator McCain ever listen to General Petraeus?, written 1 day ago, It has become a cornerstone of the McCain candidacy to continually drop the name of General David Petraeus in discussions of Senator McCain's positions on various issues pertaining to ongoing conflicts in the Middle East and Ce...

Wheeeeeeeeee!, written 1 day ago, One year ago, the Dow hit 14,164.53, its all-time high. Since then, the Dow has shed 5566.39, 39.3 percent of its value. Today, it dropped 678.91 points, falling to 8579.19. It's now down 2099.09 from the day George W. Bush took office, down 19.8 percent.

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Global focus on Asia's executioners, written 3 days ago, Human rights activists worldwide are this month campaigning for an end to the death penalty in Asia.The sixth World Day Against the Death Penalty, held this Friday 10 October 2008, is focusing on six countries which exemplify important issues ...

CBS Has ST:TOS In HD, written 2 weeks ago, Somehow it had previously escaped me (maybe its a new thing? maybe I don't pay all that much attention to stuff like this?), CBS now has episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series, remastered, in high definition. Just enjoyed Daggers of the Mind. Well, enjo...

Off to Belize..., written 3 days ago, This will be my last post for a while because I won't have a computer on the beautiful tropical island where I'll be (ahem) working for a week. Carrie Bow Caye is a tiny patch of sand on the Belize barrier reef. The only structure on the island is a marine resea...

Bad Religion versus Good Religion, written 5 hours ago, Why would Jay Bentley, Greg Graffin, Brett Gurewitz and Jay Ziskrout name their band as Bad Religion, I wondered. They could have named it Good Religion as well! But then I saw a glimpse of religion as a real bad one with my own eyes once as I ...

Taking Social Actions, written 1 week ago, I've been watching with interest the evolution of Social Actions, a relatively new service that helps you find things you can do right now for the causes you care about. The site aggregates "actionable opportunities" from 30 different social actio...