• A Wasted Vote

    “”I understand how difficult it can be for an African-American in today’s society. In fact, I can relate to black people very well indeed. My ancestors once owned slaves, and it is in my lineage to work closely with the black community. However, just because they were freed over a century ago doesn’t mean they…

  • Anger Caused by Drama

    It is hard to get inspiration, when people bring down your every word. You look for motivation, but instead there is just anger. Anger at the struggle young brothers go through to survive. Anger at the sisters tossed up and to the side. Anger at the reality sensibility makes us endure. Anger at the childhood…

  • Heidemarie Schwermer Has Been Moneyless For 16 Years

    Heidemarie Schwermer, a 69-year-old German woman, has been living without money for nearly 16 years and is reportedly much happier because of it, as is documented in the film “Living Without Money”. How does she do it? For food, Schwermer barters a few hours of hard labor cleaning and gardening in exchange for food. For…

  • The Hunger Games

    The Hunger Games takes place in a futuristic nation known as Panem, after the destruction of the North American continent by some unexplained apocalyptic event. Panem consists of a wealthy Capitol and twelve underprivileged districts under the Capitol’s control. District 12, where the book begins, is located in the coal-rich region that was formerly Appalachia.…

  • Troubles in the Roman Catholic Church

    By jay Nichols: (Self Proclaimed Catholic Wiccan).   The other week, his holiness Pope Benedict XVI: the head of the Roman Catholic Church, made headlines and caused more than one person to literally exclaim: “WTF?!”, when he issued a condemnation of the Conference of Women’s Religious, AKA one of the largest group of American nuns,…

  • Keep Your Hands to Yourself

    “You’ve got to be desperate to steel from a blind person.” I heard this argument from someone and it confused me. Confusion came not so much that the morality of stealing from the blind is wrong, but that from the assumption that stealing from others is acceptable. When I was a child at my mother’s…

  • The Casual Vacancy

    The Casual Vacancy, perhaps the most hotly anticipated book of the year, will be published on 27 September and is set in a small town called Pagford, described by her new publisher Little, Brown as an English idyll “with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey”. The story is set in motion by the…

  • Our fearless leaders

    I know I’ve written something similar to this in highschool.  I also know that I’ve thoughtabout it as a part of an argument in a debate or two. shitmystudentswrite: What about the women who gave birth to our fearless leaders such as Albert Einstein, Barack Obama, David Beckham and Posh?

  • A Warrior’s Love Reality

    By kevin White: Roman maidens said come back with your shield, not upon it. I have to wonder to they know how hard the fight is. Do they honor it? Do they gather the strategy of tactics, the attention to details? Or are they just hoping for another night’s romp with the sexiest male. Great…

  • TV Vegitation

    A man and his wife are sitting in the living room and he says to her, “Just so you know, I never want to live in a vegetative state dependent on some machine. If that ever happens, just pull the plug.” ”OK,” says his wife as she gets up and unplugs the TV.