We've talked a lot this semester about ideas and opinions. Hopefully you, as a thinking evaluating analyzing Smarty McSmartypants are starting to develop a core philosophy/world view that is the basis for all of said opinions. As a final topping/culimnation of the semester, please participat...
Find some story related to yesterday's primary elections (in California or out) and post it (with a summary) as a reply! What results did you think were interesting? Good? Bad? Ugly? Anyone besides me get to vote yesterday? How was it? :) This is a good site for election results from Orange County:...
since we're so near the end of our time together, it seems opportune to do some reflection.... any feedback from this semester? your favorite topics? stuff you loved? stuff you hated? other stuff we should do in the course? would you take another similar course in college (lots of schools have...
Infant twins are hospitalized in serious condition after being mauled by a fox that wandered into their home through an open door. Its estimated that 10,000 foxes roam London They will walk into houses, walk round, mess on the bathroom floor and sometimes sleep on the bed if people are not around But e...
"Welcome to Donsol, the home of the gentle giants," Alan Amanse says smiling broadly at us as we awkwardly scramble onto the traditional fishing boat. "We have something must be followed; the rules about whale shark interaction." He's delivered this speech countless times...
As jails go, the one in Pitkin County, Colorado, seems pretty comfortable. Inmates are allowed out of their cells from 8 a.m. until 11:30 p.m. There's a day room and a multipurpose room, a small gym, plenty of windows and "balanced, hot, varied, dietitian-approved inmate meals," accord...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100603/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_palestiniansis using video confiscated from people on the Gaza-bound aid flotilla to justify opening fire during its deadly raid on the ships, drawing sharp criticism Thursday from foreign corresponde...
The manipulations of Anakin Skywalker, also known as Darth Vader in the "Star Wars" saga, have long been ascribed to the Dark Side of the Force. Now, psychiatrists suggests that the actions of the Jedi Knight could be used in teaching about a real-life mental illness. A letter to the edi...
http://www.canada.com/news/picks+morality/3080492/story.htmlConservatives and liberals in Canada have been fighting over the years about whether there is a need for more sex education for the youth of Canada.A new study praising the benefits of sex education and recommending more of it lo...
More than 3 million people gathered in South Americas largest city, Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Sunday, June 6, for the worlds largest gay event this is the citys 14th Pride parade and was its most political. Marchers demanded making homophobia a crime and keeping religion out of government. What do you th...
A killer whale at SeaWorld Orlando died Sunday while giving birth, the theme park said. The calf was stillborn. The father of the calf was Tilikum -- the killer whale involved in death of a trainer in February. Taima, a 20-year-old killer whale, died from complications associated with the birthing p...
Elton John and Rush Limbaugh may seem like an unlikely pair to be found at the same event, but perhaps a wedding is as good a place as any to put politics aside. As Rush Limbaugh, an outspoken conservative commentator, tied the knot for the fourth time in Palm Beach on Saturday, Elton John was on hand to he...
Combined the 2010 Bentley Continental Suspersports and the Cadillac CTS-V have 1177 horsepower and six wheel drive. The 2010 Bentley Continental Suspersports will set you back $286,845 and it is the most powerful car that Bentley has ever built with a Twin Turbo W-12 6.0L engine that produces...
Both the upper and lower houses of Japan's parliament elected Finance Minister Naoto Kan to be the nation's new prime minister Friday, following the resignation of Yukio Hatoyama from the post earlier this week. Kan is the country's fifth prime minister since 2006. The Diet, Japan's parliament, v...
In a hand-to-hand comparison with the new iPhone 4 and the iPhone 3Gs, one will instantly notice how much thinner Apple made the new product. The iPhone 4 is 24 percent thinner than the 3Gs and you can tell, as I got a chance to handle the new model shortly after Jobs finished his speech introducing the hi...
England's World Cup football team will soon be hosted by one of Africa's richest royal families, in a five-star establishment in the sleepy South African town of Rustenburg. Do you think this is a good place to host the World Cup? Are you going to watch it? Who do you want to win the World Cup? http://ne...
There has been violent attacks on Indians in Australia. There has been a rapid growth of the Indian population in Australia. Australia regards itself as a multicultural sucess story and defends its reputation despite the on going violence against the Indians. What do you think about this issue? Do...
Egyptian activists have protested in front of parliament and called for legislation giving Christians equal rights as Muslims to build houses of worship.The demonstrators, both Muslim and Christian, were also protesting Wednesday against the sectarian strains in the country, particul...
Leading up to the Super Bowl, much news and debate was stirred up over the plans of Focus on the Family, a famous conservative interest/action group, to air a Super Bowl commercial that espoused a pro-life position (with the help of the mom of University of Florida star quarterback Tim Tebo) http:...
Group 1 President Obaama has called for a repeal in the don't ask don't tell policy in the US military. The policy forces men and women serving our country to lie about themselves so that they are able to serve. Do you think sexual orientation should matter in the military? ttp://www.usnews.com/ar...
A 19 year old student offered her virginity to the highest bidder on a website so that she could pay for her college tution. More than 30,000 people viewed her post and more than 1,200 had made bids. Prostitution is legal under laws considered to be more liberal many countries. Prostitution in various...
Dr Conrad Murray faces charges in connection with Jackson's death last June, which coroners ruled as homicide. Murray has told investigators he was treating Jackson for insomnia, often using Propofol, a powerful anaesthetic. Jackson died at home on 25 June, after Murray had administered a ****t...
Belize City urban war zone Orange Street, Euphrates Avenue, Glynn Street and Central American Boulevard see seven shooting incidents, two fatal, in five days! Information is sketchy, but at press time tonight, it is plain that the citys blood bath has continued, with two more shootings, which hav...
Ten Americans were detained by Haitian police on Saturday as they tried to bus 33 children across the border into the Dominican Republic, allegedly without proper documents. The Baptist church members from Idaho called it a "Haitian Orphan Rescue Mission," meant to save abandoned chi...
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