Make sure not only to read the article, but the comments posted by some of the readers. I find this idea cute, but, as some readers also mentioned, useless – instead of taking real action, Evan Roth is only helping frustrate people who have no say in the matter. As one of the readers said:… Read More Playing games with the TSA
I love music. I really do. One of the first things I do when I get home is turning the radio on. I almost never am without a form of portable music or another (my shoulder still has a dent from the boom box days) (just kidding) and when I don’t have something to listen… Read More Katy Perry, innuendos, bad lyrics and the entire gambit
I always felt safe from being brainwashed because I spend a lot more time with my nose stuck in a book that sitting in front of a TV. “Braiwashed?” I’d scoff at anyone who’d broach the subject. “Hogwash! I’m reading! OK, so I didn’t say it in those words – after all, I am not… Read More Your eyes are sleepy, veryyyyyyyy sleepy…
It’s absolutely mind-boggling what people can do with a little effort, a lot of perseverance and some good moves ;). At a Cebu provincial prison in the Philippines, a security consultant by the name of Byron Garcia decided to try something innovative. To teach the inmates how to live together rather than to just tolerate… Read More Dancing to the jailhouse rock takes on a whole new meaning…
Like most people (except maybe the bitter, cynical and deeply jaded ones), I love a good laugh. But as I get older (not old, just older), I find myself discriminating against certain types of humor. I seem to be shying away from the meaningless sort and am naturally attracted to hilarious yet thought-provoking pieces which… Read More Jeff Dunham’s Achmed the Dead Terrorist – an unexplored treasure trove of conversation topics
While it might seem that the world is falling apart around us, the signs that humanity has yet given up on itself abound. Various organizations are created all the time and all seem to be working very hard on making the world a better place. Some of them seem to lean more towards the publicity… Read More Who said men can’t be nurturing?
Marie-Claire’s blog offers a lot of interesting sites and posts to visit. There is one in particular that hit me, especially in the wake of the post I wrote on The Story of Stuff earlier this week, and that is the link to a photographic arts show by Chris Jordan. It’s title: Running the numbers:… Read More Consumption shock
Stuff. It’s all around us. Some of it is essential. Some of it is less essential. Some of it isn’t essential at all and some of it is totally ridiculous. I’m a child of the 80s and a product of the intense awareness-raising campaigns that were done in schools back then to encourage recycling. If… Read More Review: The Story of Stuff, by Annie Leonard
I finally figured out what was bothering me about the whole concept behind America’s Next Top Model. Tyra Banks says that she wants to promote different types of beauty. While she is doing that in one way, in that there are contestants from various backgrounds as well as winners from different backgrounds, she is also… Read More Mirror mirror on the wall, who’s the prettiest of them all?
I thought that ranting at banks and financial institutions and complaining about how they were bleeding us was only a therapeutic approach to the constraints and stress of budgeting. I kind of was hoping that they weren’t out there only to ‘get’ us, poor little consumer, but to make a profit while helping us. I… Read More The end of a beautiful fairy tale