I was struck by a graphic that was posted on Facebook the other day, which was clearly a response to the well-intentioned people who point out spelling errors in the posts of others on social media outlets. The derisive term “Grammar Nazi” is now flung about with impunity (never mind that they confuse grammar with […]
Is the Illuminati going to take over the world? We watch videos about them on Youtube, we hear about them in movies and read about them in literature. The Illuminati is theorized to be a real secret society, geared towards the goal of establishing a new world order despite the cost of lives and destruction. […]
After Newtown, Connecticut In the wake of the Sandy hook Elementary tragedy there has been tremendous debate in the US about increasing gun controls. It took only hours to find hundreds or thousands of forum conversations, calls from our politicians for more gun control and a general demand that something, anything, be done to prevent […]
A series of hubs chronicling a serial killer from each of the fifty states. David Meirhofer March 19, 1967 was cold. Goddamn it ’s cold, he thought. Between the temperature holding at a stubborn 30 degrees and the broken heater in his car, the 18 year old was pissed. Another crap day in this tinshit […]
Small talk certainly isn ’t something the average person especially prizes or looks forward to in everyday life. When we think of small talk, we might think of being bored by someone we don ’t really want to speak with, or by subjects that don ’t ‘matter. ’ Yet small talk actually serves important purposes […]
Do women belong in law enforcement? To rephrase the question . . . can women do the job at the same level as their male counterparts? A few days ago, I was reading through the questions users asked at HubPages and this question (although worded a bit differently) was one that was getting many responses. […]
On the web, where content is king, the types of expression that a person engages in can put them on the radar of the scores of behavioral health experts and paid agents who have taken to the internet to identify potentially problematic people under the auspices of law enforcement and violence prevention. Many times the […]
Liberty The term “liberty” ought to be used, properly, for the view of political freedom which constitutionally based political systems adopt. The American system of government has a core value of liberty in its foundations. The supporting theory – essentially a moral theory, since justification of a system is a normative project – comes out […]
Republican David McKinley Seeks to Ban Funding for Climate Readiness In spite of a growing number of reports demonstrating that U.S. military facilities are experiencing the impact of rising seas, one Congressman recently sponsored an amendment that attempts to ban the U.S. military from reacting to climate change. Congressman David McKinley (W.Va,), a Republican up […]
The reptilian conspiracy examined Conspiracy researcher and alternative historian David Icke has become credited with coming up with the idea that shapeshifting reptilians from an alien race control the world. Many people find the idea impossible to believe in and have ridiculed the author for presenting this material. Many say that Icke is discrediting other […]
Meet Marta and Chuck She is waiting for me as arranged, in front of the sports bar in the Landings Plaza, in south Sarasota. She slings beer there, two or three evenings a week, along with three other part time jobs – another waitressing gig serving breakfast in a diner, and a weekend job picking […]
To Protect and Serve To protect and serve. This is the reason we have a police force. They are there to protect us, the general public, from the evil that walks among us. They exist to serve the public good. But what happens when the system that is supposed to defend us instead does us […]