ramblings & shenanigans
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It’s not very often that a website makes me feel uncomfortable and chills me to the bone. A Danish website called “Hit The Bitch,” intended as a public service announcement for Danish citizens, had that very effect on me. On this website, the visitor is faced with a Danish-speaking young woman, whom the visitor can [...]
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Last week was not a good one for civil rights. A city law being hatched in Washington, D.C. that would make it illegal for religious organizations to discriminate against homosexual individuals – with the exception of having to marry them or support their ceremonies – has gotten a cold response from the Catholic Archdiocese of [...]
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Rupert Murdoch’s war against free content continues. The yesteryear tycoon recently complained about search engines “stealing” news content from his pay-to-read sites – such as WSJ.com – and spreading it around for free. Murdoch is particularly not fond of the concept of free use, and would like to see it put to death entirely. Murdoch’s [...]
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In August, a Florida mom was asked to “cover up” when she attempted to breastfeed her baby at a Chick-Fil-A restaurant. Florida law allows for mothers to breastfeed their young in public. When neither the manager of that particular restaurant nor the higher-ups in the Chick-Fil-A corporation responded to contact attempts, the young mom went [...]
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The Fox News Network demonstrated its staunch credibility once again as crackpot Sean Hannity aired footage on his show of hordes of people getting together to protest the health care bill, while a lot of that footage was actually from a completely different event, and the Washington Post’s estimate of the actual reported event’s attendance [...]
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Humankind’s concern with physical appearance has certainly taken new extremes in the last couple of decades in my humble opinion. Certainly we have been preoccupied with our looks ever since Adam took notice of Eve’s form. Our modern society places a lot of inane demands on women in terms of how they should look. Supermodels, [...]
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Politicians and celebrities have been using the media since its conception as a tool to advance their agendas and careers. Part of this equilibrium has been the fact that sometimes gossip magazines and other trash rags publish stories which are completely fabricated. In other words, publishing quotes of words never spoken from interviews that did [...]
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The admission policies of Apple’s App Store have been a thorn in one’s side for a lot of people – and corporations as well. Joe Hewitt, the developer of the hugely popular Facebook application for iPhone, has quit the iPhone project due to Apple’s “tyrannical” approval process. For Facebook users with iPhones, this is disappointing [...]
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A Brazilian man surprised his grieving family and friends by showing up at his own funeral alive and well. Apparently the disfigured victim of a car accident had been mistakenly identified as the 59-year-old bricklayer by his family. The burial was scheduled for the next day, as is customary in Brazil. Incidentally, that day was [...]
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Mika Salakka is a Finn living in the United States. He is a nursing assistant, a creative writer, a devoted husband, and an observer of the human condition. His interests range from music and literature to psychology, sociology, medicine, technology, and spirituality.
It’s That Pesky Thing Called Science
November 19, 2009
in Commentary
Here we go again. In a Massachusetts school, Fifth grade students of a science class were shown slides of human organs, such a spleen, a kidney, and somesuch things. The guest speaker was a pathologist assistant, so the kiddies were given an excellent opportunity to ask questions and learn stuff from a real person of [...]
Tagged as: education, Society, Stupidity
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