I love being entertained, there’s no doubt about it.  I watch television or a movie nearly every day and I have an X-Box 360 and love playing my favorite games.  Bioshock anyone?  But I also read, I go biking and I hang out with my friends.  Yet something does not have to be entertaining for […]

Imagine knowing when you were going to die.  I think it would make life too stressful, because there is the greatest deadline possible looming and so much stuff to try and fit in.  It would detract from our ability to sit back, to relax, to simply waste a day just being alive.  Kurt Vonnegut says […]

I’m still not sure if I’m attracted to girls with short hair or not.  There were a couple of girls in college who had short hair that I liked, but it was still somewhat long compared to a standard male haircut.  However, I have a mad crush on Rachel Maddow and I can’t help it […]

I am not a particular fan of scary movies.  I watched The Shining, but that’s something like a cultural necessity to live in America and seem smart.  I’ve actually seen a lot of scary movies, I just seldom enjoy them.  Maybe I like to suffer or maybe I just forget how much I hate being […]

One can only feel sympathy for the Travoltas, who lost their beloved son Jett in a seizure.
They were Scientologists. Was this church related dogma to blame for the child’s failure to use the seizure medicine that could have saved his life?
So when I read that the Travoltas had refused to go along with their son’s […]

 FreeMediaOnline.org & Free Media Online Blog  The Federalist Commentary, January 6, 2009, San Francisco
Thinking About The Unthinkable
by The Federalist
If you think about the above phrase coined by the late nuclear war theorist, Herman Kahn, you might find it  both unusually appropriate and alarming when applied to US public diplomacy.
There is a fundamental flaw in the […]

A team of Indian and German scientists have started a 70-day ocean expedition to find out if pouring iron powder into ocean can trap greenhouse gas, CO2 from atmosphere and can keep it long enough under water to make a difference in global warming situation, according to a report by Times of India.
The scientists leaving […]

A UK woman who contracted the asbestos related cancer mesothelioma has put her faith in Germany to try and help her to fight the disease. The woman was diagnosed with the cancer two years ago and was given just months to live. However, since trying out pioneering treatment in Germany her cancer has gone into […]

Orange County Circuit Court Judge Jose R. Rodriquez has set a hearing for Thursday morning to decide whether or not Casey Anthony will have to give a deposition in a lawsuit against her filed by Zenaida Gonzalez after Anthony named her name as the same name as the mysterious Nanny that she left Caylee with […]

Blogging from PHOENIX— Is the promise of change we can believe in being tainted by a closet racist? Illinois senator designate Roland Burris as promised was prohibited from taking his seat by majority leader Harry Reid today. But the back story may be in statements the Beleaguered Illinois Governor claims the majority leader made before […]

Burma, or as their military has renamed it, Myanmar is a forgotten country which most people would not even think to look at on a map. As the news reported some time ago, several monks were killed in a government protest. After everyone read about it, they were shocked.
But what most people don’t consider is […]

Modern day ghost stories of our time seem to come in the form of conspiracy theories, which few people seem to take seriously, at least not when they refer to the present or the future. Furthermore, just about anything can be shown on youtube as it’s become one of the chief sources of entertainment and […]

A gruesome discovery was made today in a Graham, Washington landfill.  The body of a newborn boy.  His young  mother who is only 16 years old stands guilty of murdering the child by holding his face in the toilet and drowning him.  She then put him in a plastic bag and tossed him out with […]

Jeffery goes to see Gloria and he reminds her why he asked for the divorce. He tells her the arraignment is set for today and she might be free tonight and he can’t wait to celebrate in the nearest bed. Gloria didn’t realize she would be getting out but doesn’t look so happy.
Michael demands to […]

The Coporal’s Diary is the painfully emotional story of Corporal Jonathan Santos and his brief stint in Iraq. Corporal Santos, along with several other servicemen, was killed by a roadside bomb on October 15th, 2004 in Iraq. When his mother, Doris, receives his belongings, she finds a diary and numerous videocassettes recording his daily life in […]

Mesothelioma is a form of cancer that can affect the lungs, heart, or abdominal regions, and is known to result from long term or high level exposure to asbestos. Many people that have been exposed to asbestos have died as a result of contracting the cancer, which can take several decades to develop from the […]

By Shimon Z. Klein

The pressure cooker had threatened to blow up for a long time. Hamas had been firing rockets indiscriminately into southern Israel turning the lives of the people living there into a living hell. This has been going on for nearly eight years and nobody, apart from Israel, protested. These inhabitants are not […]

In the past several years, there have been many instances in India where Cyber Cafes have been used either for real or false terrorist communication. Several Cyber Crimes including stealing of bank passwords and subsequent fraudulent withdrawal of money have also happened through Cyber Cafes. Cyber Cafes have also been used regularly for sending of obscene […]

According to IMDB, Bear McCreary created his first score only a decade ago. It was for a short film called A Good Lie. Four years later he worked on another short film called Periphery, Texas, and a few other unknown projects. But though McCreary began working on various projects consistently in 2002, it wasn’t until 2006, when […]

For years I had given scant thought to Fonts and their uses. That changed when I moved into the teaching arena and the development of text books. Fonts are a complex subject, and one could easily write a book about them. Some are warm, reassuring and friendly, others are cold and intimidating. Don’t believe me?  […]

 In case anyone missed it and especially for my American friends, please take this link  to Michael Tomasky’s American “Hall of Shame” for the year 2008. His choice of Sarah Palin as runner-up (to Bernard Madoff) is well backed up by this vituperative but accurate description of “everyone’s favourite hockey Mom” (sic … or do […]

It has been the tradition of this country to allow a newly elected president what has come to be called a “honeymoon.” It is usually defined as a brief period of indulgence and good will before the gloves come off and the media and the president’s adversaries renew the traditional skirmishes. But one issue that […]

By now, rational folks everywhere across the globe are disgusted by one more episode of disproportionate and excessive use of force by Israel in Gaza that has killed many innocent men,women and children and injured many.
What if anything Israel is achieving through this reckless violence but breeding another group of hopeless youths ready to take […]

It is uncommon for me to blog twice in one day. However, I felt this time it was justifiable. As you know by now, I watch these Gossip Girl episodes and cringe. Yet, they give me something to blog about and are a great way for me to educate people on this serious problem of bullying and […]

Despite what you may have read about the government protests at Suvarnbhumi Airport, Thailand is still as safe as it ever was. While many people see it as politically unstable, they don’t know very much about it’s history.
The country has had several coups over the last century when the military doesn’t approve of the current […]

The cover states that this is “A novel of Alternate History,” a genre Turtledove is a master of. However, it is actually a novel of an alternate universe, with some familiar history.
In this alternate universe, Atlantis is a continent, lying in the Atlantic Ocean between Europe and Terranova (North America), somewhat closer to the latter. […]

This is a “first contact” story. The title is a play on words.
Tom Stein, the main character, is an actors’ agent in Hollywood. His stable of clients includes Michelle, who was catapulted to stardom by the unexpected success of a grade-B thriller. Unfortunately, her only asset is her striking good looks. Her acting abilities are […]

Casey Anthony sits safely in jail, while this is cold comfort for people that really want to understand the actions of tot mom Casey Anthony, it is at least a move forward. From ‘person of interest’ Casey Anthony is now facing a ‘murder one’ rap.
It is still a bit of an anathema to me how […]

The intriguing story  that ExxonMobil has Royal Dutch Shell (RDS) in its sights will send shivers down the spines of Shell’s senior executives as they plan their strategy for 2009 and beyond. It may also give much food for though to those in the European Union who want to keep European hands on key energy […]

In a strange turn of emotions from the ever so cold and callous tot mom Casey Anthony.  She has made a confession to the Pastor of the Orlando, Florida Eastside Baptist Church, Rev. Shane Stutzman.
Seems Caylee’s dear mom has had a change of heart regarding her feelings towards the little snot head as she normally put […]