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Unless you have been living under a rock you have heard about the Supreme Court ruling about the current gun laws in Chicago. You have also most likely heard all the ruckus that surrounds the ruling as well. Some think we are headed back to the Wild, Wild West of yesterday while others believe we [...]

That’s right. I just finished reading about a poll in The Week magazine where 26% of Americans didn’t know that Great Britain (A.K.A England for those who may not know who Great Britain is) was the country we, America A.K.A United State of America, fought to gain our independence. I can even [...]

It used to be that the person to watch out for was the busy body neighbor or the gossip at your local church. Now it seems that it’s not only okay but fashionable to mettle in everyone’s business now that everyone’s business and personal life seem to be online. But the real question is; how [...]

Is it just me or are we being marketed to all of the time? We never have a chance to breathe because these advertisements are being shoved down our throats. If you haven’t noticed this yet you either never watch TV or you are just incredible naive.
One way of noticing how much we are marketed [...]

There has been a lot of heated discourse surrounding the health care bill. That isn’t necessarily a bad thing. What has become a bad thing is the type of language used. Coarse language does not particularly bother me, but I don’t think it adds to an intelligent, productive discourse.
As Americans, we pride ourselves in our [...]

The laws regarding intellectual property in the United States have become outdated and overly restrictive. Technology has made it necessary to revisit these regulations so created work can be more thoroughly enjoyed.
Let’s take movies, for example. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act prevents us from circumventing DRM for any reason. This means we’re legally unable to [...]

I was thinking recently and I decided that I would never want to be famous. Everyone knows you and you can barely get a moment to yourself. Celebrities have pictures taken of them every single time they leave the house. Can you imagine how bad that would be? Imagine if you were having a bad [...]

I played sports as a child. Even when I was in high school I played on the Basketball and the Track and Field teams. I always enjoyed it and seriously tried to get better everyday. The coaches were always kind and supportive and my teams always did well. But nowadays some of the coaches seem [...]

As much as the student goes through during finals week, for those of us who are married to students who have returned to college, it’s no picnic either. It’s as if the world stops for the last two weeks of every semester and nothing with the exception of the assignment, project or test exists. Laundry [...]

We hear about companies closing these days almost everyday and while we sympathize with the workers we really don’t know what it feels like until it happens to us. You walk in one day and there stands someone from HR that allows you to look through the box they have accumulated your personal items in [...]