Tag Archives: Society

...being stressed is probably the sanest reaction possible.

The sense I get is that the general public is okay with the Michael Jackson “not guilty” verdict, not necessarily because they don’t think he did anything wrong, but because our system favors the accused and given the demonstrably variable character of virtually the entire lot of Jackson accusers, the …

...when peace is finally worked out for the people of Ireland ... it will have been in spite of the I.R.A. not because of it.

There are countless peer directories that exist in order for people to meet new people and connect with their own friends. Friendster was the first real popular one. TheFaceBook supplanted it for a while as it publicized itself to the college crowd. Now MySpace has supplanted them all to create …

Where are all the female bloggers? Here, in my weekly top ten posts.

Words usually have something to hide—you have to shake them until the top pops off and some revelation tumbles out..."

What might possibly be one of the earliest sex toy ever found: here. “A sculpted and polished phallus found in a German cave is among the earliest representations of male sexuality ever uncovered, researchers say.” “The 20cm-long, 3cm-wide stone object, which is dated to be about 28,000 years old, was …

I know I don’t take Rush seriously so why can’t they do the same with Trudeau?

A 27 year-old Islamist radical of joint Dutch-Moroccan nationality, Mohammed Bouyeri, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole today for committing a terrorist act by murdering Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh last November. He was also convicted of the attempted murder of several police officers and …

Conflict in northern Uganda has displaced approximately 1.4 million people, 80% of them children and women, as the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) seeks to overthrow the Ugandan government. UNICEF Ambassador Clay Aiken traveled to the conflict region of northern Uganda to witness the phenomenon of “night commuters”: children who …