Friday was Earth Day. Funny to take a moment to think about actually making positive changes in the way that we do things and how simple it actually is to change them. Sometimes, living in this society of production, consumption, and waste, it is easy to think that the way we are doing things is…
Year: 2007
Don't Fuck with 1944 Miss America
WAYNESBURG, Ky. – Miss America 1944 has a talent that likely has never appeared on a beauty pageant stage: She fired a handgun to shoot out a vehicle’s tires and stop an intruder. Venus Ramey, 82, confronted a man on her farm in south-central Kentucky last week after she saw her dog run into a…
Honolulu Man Attacks Bus with Spear
I think the tribal council may vote him off the island. cd It was just after nine — when a city bus bound for Hanauma Bay, Sandy Beach and Sea Life Park — stopped in Hawaii Kai. “A passenger tried to get on the bus with an unsheathe spear gun — and that’s an item…
Australian Ghost Ship Mystery
Possibly the yachts passengers are now on some mysterious island… cd SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian rescuers were on Friday trying to solve the “Mary Celeste” style mystery of a yacht found floating off the coast with its engine running, food on its table ready to eat, but no crew. The 12-metre (36 feet) catamaran was…
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Have a look at what the war is really like….
Warning: This is not for the faint hearted. Contains graphic reality. (The site below and the views expressed on it are not those of me, the bloggers here, or www.fukn.us …. I provide the link for your critical assessment only and primarily because the brutal pictures tell more of a story than anything I have…
Tourism and Reality in Southeast Asia
Quickly written…last weeks is now posted down the page a bit…semester is nearing an end… cd Tourism and Reality in Southeast Asia by Chris Damitio While watching the food channel the other day, I came across a disturbing thing. Initially, what caught my attention was a bald man in a southern China marketplace looking at…
A Memento of Henri Bergson
A Memento of Henri Bergson by Chris Damitio You may think that you are free, but you are not. You may think that each action you take is an unrestrained choice, but it is not. You ( and everyone else) are incarcerated in a prison that controls every action you take and every decision you…
Gunman kills 32+ on Virginia Tech Campus
If you’ve never considered gun control, maybe the fact that a madman killed at least 32 people this morning at a quiet college campus will convince you. I agree with the old adage that guns don’t kill people, people kill people…however, guns make it a hell of a lot easier. If the United States had…
Women and Power in Southeast Asia
I feel a need to apologize for these Southeast Asian papers. The problem with them is that they usually involve a couple of hundred pages of reading and have to be read and written within less than a week. Because of the time, there is not enough time to write a paper that adequately treats…