Have you ever logged into your email account and found you have received several messages about meeting someone online? Or have you turned on the TV to see some picture-perfect couple boasting about how they found each other through some website and it...
Douglas Engelbart once said, “The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.” This makes me wonder if we should embarrass people until they mature. We live in a time where prisons are overcrowded...
A merge is a marriage of two businesses. The latest nuptial is between two major international companies: InBev and Grupo Modelo. You’ve heard of them right? No? Well, I bet you know their products. InBev, the producers of the beers Busch and Budweiser,...
Returning home after a long trip can sometimes leave you feeling stressed, anxious or even a little bit depressed. Sometimes it’s because you left a wonderful vacation and now have to deal with the reality of being a student or an employee. Maybe you’re...
On Jan. 21, when President Barack Obama publicly swore in for his second term, he placed his left hand on two Bibles: one that President Abraham Lincoln used in his own inauguration and one that was owned by Martin Luther King Jr. While I admired his...
So we’ve all heard of the “F” word, the “B” word and the “N” word. Well what about the “R” word? That’s right--“retarded.” How many times a day do you use it? We have all heard of the campaign “Spread the word to end the word,”...
Most of my friends know me for being a joker. Most of the astutely hilarious jokes I tell are blatant and exaggerated lies. I wish this story could be one of those. Here’s the would-be punch line: Every 42 seconds someone is arrested in America for...
Twitter has come a long way since it was created in 2006 by co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams. Many of Twitter users may not know that the reason you can only express yourself in 140 characters is because it had to fit into a text message, being...
To breastfeed or to not breastfeed? This is a question that many new and expecting mothers ponder upon as there is much to think about for each answer. For many years now, breastfeeding has reigned as a popular method of feeding babies, with vast benefits...
“Yes We Can.” This was the phrase plastered across televisions in 2008. These three words were at the center of Barack Obama’s first presidential campaign. However, do these words give the voting population any indication as to the policies Obama...
In light of the recent inauguration of President Barack Obama and the upcoming Super Bowl, I found myself wondering: Of my two loves, football and politics, which reigns supreme? And while I had to debate this for a mere, oh, two seconds, I decided that...
A government’s only purpose is to protect its citizens. For the most part, our government is pretty successful in this aspect. But in some cases the government is pretty powerless, especially with the issue of drugs. Now you’re asking, “How? The...
