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Saturday, July 2, 2005

Since This Is My "Piss-Someone-Off Blog", Let's Talk Homosexuality

On June 23, blackcat30 posted the question "Is Gay-ness A Sickness?". The following post opened the topic up for discussion without animosity, ignorant asides or childishness. It was an attempt for blackcat30 to gather opinions and knowledge about homosexuality and whether or not being gay was a... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, July 1, 2005

Racism From Sea To Shining Sea

Two incidents of racial violence in the past several days shows that, although we have come a long way in dealing with a racial biases in this country, we still have a long way to go. In Howard Beach, New York, the site of the infamous Howard Beach beatings in 1986 (where an escaping black man was... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, June 30, 2005

Arrest The Burger King For Voyeurism Or Something; Just Get Him Off My TV

Is it just me or is the big-headed plastic burger king in the Burger King commercials a bit too creepy and voyeuristic. Is he a peeping tom (uh...king)? Is he a stalker? Why do the hungry people who see him seem to be so uncomfortable? And why do these commercials make me so uncomfortable? Is it the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, June 24, 2005

Team Of The New Millenium: The San Antonio Spurs

In the final game of a series pushed to its limit, the San Antonio Spurs showed Detroit and the rest of the world why the franchise is such a success. Perserverance in the face of adversity. Which is also probably the reason that Tim Duncan received the series MVP award over Manu Genobili, who, in... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, June 23, 2005

Remember The Missing Groene Siblings? How About The Runaway Bride?

There is a monstrous realligning of priorities going on in this country. It is happening right before our very eyes. It is the failure of the media to stay on task, to continually refresh a continuing story, in favor of the flavor-of-the-week (if the story lasts even that long) headline story. It is... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, June 18, 2005

An End To All This End Of The World Stuff

I was reading a post by ritchie, "The End Of The World?", a few moments ago and made this comment: I remember sitting in class my junior or senior year of high school when the exact time for a planetary alignment occurred, predicted by some Christian nutcases and a few cults as the exact moment the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, June 15, 2005

Child Soldiers, Child Slavery, Child Prostitution And Child Pornography

There is a list that should not only haunt you in your sleep, but also in your waking hours. It is a list out of the National Enquirer or sensationalist newspapers like the New York Post, magazines like True Detective or a 700 Club end times melodramatic plea for money. It is a list that brings to... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, June 11, 2005

25 Years Of AIDS

Discover magazine recently released its 25th Anniversary Edition. In it they discuss a cover story about AIDS in the December, 1985 issue and how much what we know about the dreaded disease has changed since then. It was reported that heterosexuals had little to worry about... Part of the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, June 4, 2005

Master Of Their Own Domain

Adult entertainment (oh, alright, dammit, 'porn' -- feel better?) sites are going to get their own domain, according to the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). It should be ready by this fall and will feature the suffix.xxx, of course. ICANN stated that they... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, May 31, 2005

Your Typical Female Smoker Is Neurotic

A Harvard study being released in the June issue of Addiction shows that the tobacco industry has for the past several decades performed extensive and sophisticated studies into how best market cigarettes to women. It was found that most of the studies found women more susceptible to marketing... Sign in to see full entry.

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