Check out Dennis Miller’s list of top 10 pinheads for 2008. The video is also fairly entertaining.
Psych 101: A Case Against Intellectual Certainty
For the last four years of high school I hammered away at life at an explosive pace, nailing out each day with the maximum amount of intensity and holding strong to the conviction that sleep was for the weak. “Sleep?,” I would respond to questions about my anti-sleep mentality, “Sleep is a waste of time. You only have one shot...
My Top 5 News Stories of 2008
There are lots of competing lists out there of top news stories, so I have decided to contribute my own. I rank these not in terms of flashiness or popularity but their significance and potential for long lasting impact in 21st century history. 1) Barack Obama Elected as Forty-Fourth President of the United States. No one can deny the magnitude...
“Traitor” movie brings up fundamental question about Islam
I recently watched the movie Traitor with Don Cheadle, an entertaining film about a Muslim CIA agent who works his way into a terrorist network in order to prevent a massive scale attack against the U.S. on its own soil. The movie was a good yarn and had some interesting twists; my only complaint is the fact that my previous...
Economist Leader
This week’s leader in The Economist addresses the growing risk of protectionism as a response to volatility in international finance and trade. If you’re not a subscriber to The Economist, there’s no better magazine for weekly news and analysis, I assure you.
Don’t Mean to Scare You this Christmas Evening, But…
Very interesting article on Yahoo regarding a report recently published by the Department of Homeland Security overlooking the biggest threats to the country in the next 5 years. Definitely worth a read, especially for the national-security minded. Here’s the link.
Merry Christmas!
In the spirit of traditional values, this holiday season I will refrain from the politically correct “Happy Holidays” greeting and hit you full steam with a big-course “Merry Christmas!” This is the greeting that happens to bring me joy during this time of year, so I shall bestow it upon you who reads this. As I am all for diversity...
Che hits the big screen, ignorance hits the youth.
It seems that ignorance and general carelessness about American history and U.S. politics have become commonplace in the majority of the youth of my generation. In the (altered) words of Roger Waters, we are “comfortably dumb.” I recently came to this scary conclusion when I stumbled upon a great response to the new movie Che, a film which essentially celebrates...
Debate on Ernesto “Che” Guevara
I posted a link to an article about Che as my Facebook status, and the following is the debate that ensued. Anonymous 1: Che’ had good reason to feel the way he did about American capitalists. Me: hmm… im not sure if that is sarcasm or complete ignorance. So you’re saying there is justification for unbridled hatred and cold murder?...
Is Putin for Real?
There is a new directive going through the Russian legislature that would basically qualify any anti-government rhetoric as treason. More here. Putin’s rationale rests on the idea that attempts to destabilize Russia in the midst of a widening economic crisis should be properly suppressed. In the midst of Medvedev’s recent meetings with Chavez and Castro, along with joint Russian-Venezuelan military...