You may remember the football player Micheal Vick. He’s the one who wasn’t content being paid millions to work one day a week for about 20 weeks a year. He needed more money so he bred and trained dogs to attack and kill other dogs so he could bet on them.
Vick is in prison. The [...]
Brita clearly has a dog in this fight. They want to sell water filters. Filterforgood.com is their effort to wean Americans off bottled water.
Thank you veterans, for your service to our country.
When things go wrong in the world, the United States often seeks to project our power to make things right. We asked you to give part or all of your life to make things right. Some times it worked, some times it didn’t. But you did what [...]
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The unnoticed attack on freedom of thought has been fought slowly in the past. Now that a major counter-attack has been won, the silent enemy is revealed.
Firesign Theater did a radio sketch in the late 60s that I remember well. Several hippies are talking assuring themselves and each other with the lines “I’m groovy. Are you groovy?,” “Yeah, I’m groovy.” and “We’re all groovy.”
Another man enters the scene and they start a new chorus. “He’s not groovy.” and “Hey, you’re not [...]
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Amazon would like me to buy more nonfiction books. They think I might some political tomes. To get my interest, they sent me a link to their Election 2008 Political Book Buying map.
They got my interest. The map uses buying information on selected red or blue (conservative or liberal) books by state. [...]
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The BrainPop team has done their usual good work with a new animated video to help talk to children about the 9/11 attacks on the United States. View it here. They explain their motivation on their blog.
Here at BrainPOP, we’ve received many emails from kids about September 11th. The anniversary raises difficult [...]
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Complaining about gas prices seems to be our national obsession. Justin Danhoff offers a little context to our misery in the Aug. 7 Christian Science Monitor commentary Congress’s Unsound Fury Over Big Oil.
With this summer’s high gas prices, Americans are trading in their traditional vacations for “staycations” – vacations much [...]
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My daughter-in-law’s family has a useful question they ask when a family member gets a little too negative. It doesn’t make a lot of sense without the back story. So here it is:
A man get’s a flat tire on his car. He’s out in farm country, not many houses. It’s getting dark [...]
I’m pretty excited to be going to San Francisco this weekend. They have these WordCamp get togethers at various places around the world. This one looks to be one of the better ones.
Matt Mullenweg, the original progammer of WordPress will be there with a host of WordPress glitterati. Bloggers and developers together for a day. [...]
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