How Much Waste Was Created For That Gold Ring Around Your Finger

From Open Pit to Wedding Band (via: WorldWatch.org ( Read more... )

It is a good thing that the FBI is monitoring those whacko environmentalists. Clearly, the environmental lobby has been trying to hinder and finally put an end to research into the "massive underground plumes of an industrial solvent [...] discovered in the nation's water supplies." By that, I mean the Department of Defense realized that the cost ( Read more... )

Evidently being in an environmentalist group is cause for National Security concerns. The FBI is monitoring anti-war and environmental activists around the nation. The umbrella term of terrorism is a blank cheque for a police state to infringe on anyone's civil liberties at any given moment. If things keep going the way they are both the Fourth ( Read more... )

Well, if you haven't heard Morgan Spurlock, the director of Super Size Me has been in a media buzz for the past couple days after giving a speech to high school students. In his speech he used the term "retarded", refered to the kids in the back of the auditorium as "wearing helmets", and joked that while the kids were listening to his speech the ( Read more... )

It's my rainforest now.

Some news from the "growing eco-trend that all of us are too poor to participate in: "Green colonialism" -- that is, rich white dudes buying rainforests in order to preserve them. Elitist bastards!" (via: Grist Magazine)

British inventor Hiram Maxim in 1885 patented the weapon that would revolutionize warfare: the Maxim Machine Gun ( Read more... )

In front of the Kansas Student Union, Monday Morning, around 9:30am
I walk up the hill toward campus. The morning air is a little muggy with a slight cool breeze, the remnants of winter winds. The black hoodie jacket and beanie I've been wearing nearly everyday this semester is a bit warm. I turn at the Student Union at the top of the hill. I ( Read more... )

As many of you knew, I was planning a trip to Korea this summer with additional travel to China, Cambodia, Thailand, and Japan. Well that plan has fallen through. The free flights and hotel reservations (for about a week) that I had lined up are no longer available. So for the time being my summer plans are back up in the air ( Read more... )

The March Harper's magazine explores the case for the impeachment of President George W. Bush.

Click here for an excerpt from the article.

Bush's approval rate is now at 34%. That means 66% of Americans either do not have faith in their president's ability to do the job he was elected to or are undecided.

Undeclared War. Prisoner abuse. ( Read more... )

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