It’s a great time of year to celebrate death, right?
We can dress up like ghouls and goblins, eat candy and go out dancing and compete in costume contests. We can also celebrate the lives of family members who have recently died or ancestors long gone. Personally, I love it.
Unfortunately, we can also face up [...]

“A new vaccine that protects against cervical cancer has set up a clash between health advocates who want to use the shots aggressively to prevent thousands of malignancies and social conservatives who say immunizing teen-agers could encourage sexual activity.
Although the vaccine will not become available until next year at the earliest, activists on both sides [...]

We can’t ignore the fact that global warming is actually happening. The arctic is melting and the US still refuses to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Sure, Toyota’s hybrid car is selling like hotcakes, but it seems like for every hybrid car on the road, there’s a Hummer burning gas at a rate of 10 miles [...]

WNBA superstar Sheryl Swoopes just came out, after being in a relationship with a woman for eight years. Lesbians have one more icon to look up to, which is really great. Too bad it took her so long:
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- Jean Chen

Warriors, come out and play-ee-ay! While most videogames made after movies (and vice versa) typically suck, The Warriors looks promising. Coincidentally, the movie noted for its violence in the 70s is being adapted into a videogame in a time when the govt. has been cracking down on violent games. And Rockstar Games never fails to [...]

In the movie Donnie Darko, there’s a scene where Donnie and his friends discuss the sex life of smurfs. Donnie comes to the conclusion that smurfs are asexual and don’t reproduce, ending with the question: “What’s the point of living if you don’t have a [penis]?”
We’re here to reproduce. Whatever else we do in [...]

Yipes! Just when I think that we’ve done all we can to destroy the environment, I read this article in the NY Times on how gold mining is toxic and damaging:
“Consider a ring. For that one ounce of gold, miners dig up and haul away 30 tons of rock and sprinkle it with diluted cyanide, [...]

No Child Left Behind makes me feel like a schizophrenic. One minute I’m laughing about it, the next I’m infuriated by it.
President Bush, despite lackluster NCLB progress results released this week, is convinced the federal policy is making a difference in public education.
Education Secretary Margaret Spellings said this today:
“We have more non-native speakers, there [...]

Park rangers found the dead, frozen body of a WWII airman way out in the Sierras on Oct. 19, still all wrapped up in his military parachute.
At first I thought, wow this is crazy! That poor bastard has been sitting up there since 1942! Then I realized his story is not that uncommon.
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“Makers and sellers of fast food won a weighty victory when the House of Representatives voted Wednesday to approve the so-called cheeseburger bill, which would bar lawsuits from obese Americans who accuse the industry of making them fat.”
What do you think? Should people be able to sue McDonald’s for making them fat? It seems silly [...]

That’s how much Howard Stern is getting paid a year to host his radio show on satellite radio.
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- Jean Chen

On Monday, the NBA announced that basketball players must dress in business casual attire. The league banned items such as sleeveless shirts, shorts, sunglasses while indoors, and headphones during team or league business, according the Associated Press. And if they don’t follow the rules, they will be benched.
So in essence…no hip-hop gear is [...]

If you apply for a job with the FBI and have had a toke of the mary jane in the last three years, or smokedmore than 15 times in your life, or ridden the horse or stuck your hand in our president’s college cocaine jar in the past ten years, don’t bother turning in an [...]

What’s going on with all the natural disasters? First there was that huge tsunami in South Asia, then Hurricane Katrina, and now mudslides in Guatemala and the earthquake in Pakistan. Some folks have been speculating that because of global warming, the weather and the earth are going nutty. I don’t know if I agree with [...]

Ok, yes, so the Harriet Miers nomination is my new obsession… because something just doesn’t seem right.
What’s really bothering me about the whole circus surrounding the situation is that conservatives are complaining that she isn’t conservative enough. Whatever happened to the notion that a judge is an unbiased civil servant, someone who makes decisions [...]