Tag Archives: Society

Everybody is quick to blame the dog in the case of an attack, but maybe we should be looking at the animal at the other end of the leash.

We may not have their resources, but when we put our minds to it, we can treat people as badly as the next country.

In order to live a want free life one must have the awareness to understand where one's own personal fulfillment lies...

Social stereotypes and race issues in contemporary America

I am optimistic that over time, world Islam can become a religion compatible with modernity, that separation of church and state can come to be the norm and that other religions will be respected. I don’t know how long it will take or how many terrorists and innocents will have …

Venerable audience measurement arbiter Nielsen Media Research says the national TV audience is getting more ethnic, Southern, Western, and a little older, according to its estimates for the 2005-06 viewing season. The total number of television households within the U.S. (including Alaska and Hawaii) is now estimated at 110,200,000, according …

In a move somewhat analogous to the passage of the USA Patriot Act after 9/11, in response to the 7/7 terrorist bombings in London which killed 52, British Home Secretary Charles Clarke today published a list of “certain types of behaviours that will form the basis for excluding and deporting …

According to a timely back-to-school study released today by market research firm Student Monitor, college women are 35% more likely than men to study daily, 21% more likely to study 15 or more hours weekly, 23% more likely to read their textbook thoroughly, and more likely to get “A”s than …

On Monday’s broadcast of The 700 Club, Christian Coalition founder, televangelist, ’88 presidential candidate, and friend-o-Bush Pat Robertson unloaded on Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, saying, “We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability,” and accusing Chavez of intending …

As human presence on the planet continues to grow, means of curtailing our impact on the natural world become even more pressing.