Category: Culture
Hey Let’s Get Smart People
Two articles today stood out in my mind today as I went through the day’s news. The first is from New Scientist, saying that access to family planning and contraception lowers the rate of abortion. The second from a feminist blog, Feministing.com, talked about the Bush administration’s appointee to the family planning office. This appointee […]
FBI and Universities
Ok so I don’t have much to add this other than stupid government. Basically the FBI has decided that to “fight terrorism and student extremists” they are promoting a set of guidlines(PDF) to pinpoint potential foreign spies or terrorists. Not a bad idea, however bad plan, because they basically say that students can be interested […]
Woman for UN – Secretary-General
Okay, so this week I have been really bad at posting, thus far I have missed 2 out of the 3 days. Unfortunately I couldn’t do much of anything about the project or being sick. Speaking of which I’m feeling slightly better, today I can actually think straight, so here goes another crazy venture into […]
Freedom isn’t Free but Fear is
Okay, so I am a temperamental mood tonight, so you get a post that is going to be a rant tonight, so be warned. Why is Freedom not free, but instead I say that fear is very free. Freedom is a hard idea to hold onto, it can be taken away very easily, many things […]
Yes!!!!!! – Enemy Combants Now POW’s
Quick post, for something really good that happened today. President Bush today sent those people who had been held in previously classified undisclosed locations operated by the CIA into the military’s hands and will receive the full protection of the Geneva Convention. This is wonderful news as the CIA has not been required to meet […]
Securing Our Culture
Yesterday’s post discussed the return of the world famous painting The Scream, the biggest thing that many people said when it happened was just how easy the robbery was to pull off. Honestly it was the sort of thing you could see teenagers pull off, and in fact it wasn’t much different from robbing the […]
A Painting is Returned
Over this weekend there was a wonderful development in the world of art. The Scream a painting by Edvard Munch, that is famous worldwide was stolen just over 2 years ago. The robbery itself is something that makes anybody who works security cringe examining how easily the painting was purloined. The details of the robbery […]
It’s All In How You Present Information
Politics the lifeblood of any country whether it be communist, dictatorship, or even and perhaps most especially a democracy. Politics is a crazy system where voters are told information given no real basis behind the information then excepted to draw conclusions from the pre-packaged information that doesn’t fit with the underlying facts of the argument. […]
The Golden Era of Profitability
An article from today’s New York Times1 discussing the recent decline in real wages and the increase in worker productivity. First of all, what does real wages mean, real wages is not just the amount of money that you earn, but what that money can actually buy. To give a relevant example, let’s say for […]
Happy Women’s Equality Day
I won’t write a long post, but I just thought I would mention that tomorrow August 26, is Women’s Equality Day. This is the day that in 1920, 86 years ago, women gained the right to vote after 72 years of the same bill, with the exact same wording being introduced what we now recognize […]