Wow, it seems the U.S. economy is going to hell in a handbasket. It's in bad shape, in tandem with investment banks and the housing market. And though Federal Reserve oversight might work well in the short term, I don't know about the long-term. After all, shouldn't government oversight be strong enough that financial markets don't need a ( Read more... )

Yep, I've finally gotten around to this. This will be more of a rant actually, since I can't think of any solution to the problem of increasing minimum wage and benefits without hurting small businesses. I can see how this could be a lose-lose situation, unlike with big businesses. I cannot understand how big-box retailers such as Wal-Mart would ( Read more... )

This will be brief, but I believe that religion should have no place at the pharmacy. Any woman should be able to obtain emergency birth control whenever and wherever she wants. If a pharmacist refuses her, that pharmacist should be required by law to refer her to a willing pharmacist that accepts her health insurance plan. I also believe that ( Read more... )

Since it's the hot topic nowadays, I figure I should share my two cents. I believe that illegal immigration should remain illegal, and that no one should try to push for loopholes (even in the instance of an illegal immigrant having one or more U.S.-born children). If an immigrant to this country wants to become a citizen, he or she should save ( Read more... )

This is more of a rant, really, but I've wanted to write on this topic for quite some time and haven't gotten around to doing so (sorry to all my fans out there ;)!). So, since I last wrote, I've had more dating experience and more experience talking to (and befriending) girls, but I still have not yet had a girlfriend. If indeed I do have ( Read more... )

I realize this is a thorny issue, but I think it can work. I don't think that it would be unethical, since we already pay men and women to have sex. It's called the adult film industry. So here's my plan. The Department of Health and Human Services--in conjunction with the Department of Labor--would issue male and female prostitutes ( Read more... )

Yeah, I know I'm late on this, but I've been very busy in my personal and professional lives--staying in touch with family, working for Genewise, working at my paying job, etc. Anyway, I believe that homosexuality is a valid sexual orientation, and that the government and society at large should not hate and/or discriminate against anyone who is ( Read more... )

Sorry, for the length between posts, but I've been busy. Along with writing screenplays for my brother, who is going to film school in June, I've been making copies of a letter for a neighborhood food fair in the Rogers Park area of Chicago and researching material for a presentation that I will be delivering at Anime Central 2004 in Rosemont on ( Read more... )

Today's political musing is on the hypocritical--and possibly nonsensical--nature of nudity laws. Let's start with television. Nudity on TV is a big topic these days because of the Janet Jackson/Justin Timberlake performance of "Rock Your Body" at the Super Bowl halftime show this year. Looking at this incident, what's offensive about it is not ( Read more... )

Believe it or not, much of the food we eat is genetically-modified. This means that an animal's or a plant's DNA contains a foreign gene that changes one or more of the organism's traits (for example, many plant crops possess a gene that allows them to withstand heavy pesticide use). Genetically-modified food could potentially sicken people ( Read more... )