Archive for May, 2006
Posted on May 16th, 2006 in Politics with no comments
Last question: There’s another flood. You are in a rescue boat. You arrive at a rooftop to find Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie. There’s only room for one in the boat. Who do you take?
Landrieu: They both get left.
Nagin: I give them the boat and [...]
Posted on May 16th, 2006 in Politics with 24 comments
Condoleezza Rice has had her ten favorite songs (and comments about them) listed in the Tuesday’s edition of ‘The Independent’. The list contains Mozart, Cream, Aretha Franklin, and U2 among others. Rice is a big fan of acid rock and ‘Rocket Man’ brings back memories of her first boyfriend. We are getting to see a [...]
Posted on May 16th, 2006 in Culture, Politics with no comments
Having lived my entire life in the United States, I have been constantly bombarded with mixed messages about teenage sexuality. A recent article from the Washington Post shows that this may be unhealthy. The United States has a higher teen pregnancy and abortion rate when compared with European countries with about the same level of [...]
Posted on May 15th, 2006 in Culture with no comments
I was watching the special features on “Good Night, and Good Luck” the other night when a good point came up:
Why should television news do the best it can when it is so profitable getting by with the worst it can?
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Posted on May 13th, 2006 in Politics, Religion & Philosophy with 3 comments
For as long as I can remember there has been a cross on top of Mount Soledad in San Diego. And for as long as I can remember there has been a legal battle going on around the cross. On one side are the people that say it is a war memorial that should be [...]
Posted on May 5th, 2006 in Politics, School with 30 comments
This was an essay I wrote in class. We were learning about Albert Einstein’s letter to Roosevelt and we were told to write a letter in the similar style. One of the names on the lists of people we could write the letter to was Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. I am not actually sending the [...]
Posted on May 3rd, 2006 in Culture with no comments
ABC’s ‘Lost‘ is possibly the best show on primetime television. It is about the survivors of a plane crash on a mysterious tropical island. Besides each episode having a main storyline, there are also subtle clues hinting at what exactly is going on in the storyline.
Warning! Major spoilers from the television show ‘Lost’ [...]