Lars Eighner has to ask himself a lot of questions. After reading "On Dumpster Diving" by Eighner, I had a lot of questions too. Why does he feel sorry for "the rat-race millions" who spend their evenings channel surfing? I can understand his annoyance with waste and people who take what they have for granted, but there is a saying I have heard ( Read more... )

 How can one individual play god? In the name of science is compassion and humanity overthrown? What right does a person have to decide who should survive and who should be destroyed? This is the power that was instilled in Josef Mengele, a Nazi scientist, torturer, and a deliverer of death.  His time at Auschwitz, the infamous concentration camp, ( Read more... )

As North Americans, it is all too easy to ignore the strife and struggles that other third-world countries endure. Stephen Lewis does an exemplary job in describing the troubles and heartache that Africans are faced with, and it is not difficult at all to sympathize with him. I have always dreamed of going to Africa ever since I was a little girl. ( Read more... )

 When we think of the Americans, what most often comes to mind  are thoughts of war, violence, "terrorism", bad politicians, over-consummation, and pollution. Being their close cousins, we are hugely affected by what happens to them, and we like to make it our business to know what they are up to. There have been many past events caused by the ( Read more... )