In 1985, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union elected a noble-minded leader named Mikhail Gorbachev. Gorbachev promised to make the Soviet Union more humane and democratic. His reforms - glasnost (political openness) and perestroika (economic reconstruction) - became...
A behavior I've observed on the part of a number of men is going for women who have one set of qualities but expecting in a relationship an opposite set of qualities. Specifically, they are attracted to artistic free-spirited women, but want in a relationship a traditional...
According to multiple award winning scientist George Ellis, we presently have a choice between views of reality: a finite self-generating multiverse a purposefully designed life-generating single finite universe If you look carefully above, the keyword common to both...
A major claim within Christianity is that Jesus was the only begotten son of God. My response to that is simple. An omnipotent entity can beget any number of sons, and any number of daughters. To claim that Jesus was the only son of God is to fail to recognize what God is....
Regional autonomy is conducive to liberty, but with a caveat. In a large and diverse country, different people will see things in different ways and will prefer different ways of life. With different regions having different values and different lifestyles, regionalism gives...
What value resides in staying in a relationship that is suffocating you? For what valid reasons would you choose to be involved in a relation that is a total negation of what you are? Every single time you say “Yes” to your partner when in reality you want to...
There are people involved in therapies of different kinds who believe it impossible to be a good person except through application of their therapies. This is as ridiculous as the Christians stating it impossible to be a good person except through Christ. There have been...
Okay, in the interests of full disclosure I deem it important to note that when it comes to choosing Coke or Pepsi I am definitely a Coca-Cola guy. This means that if asked in any direct way about which...
Ronald McDonald is a cold blooded murderer. There, I said it - though I seriously doubt it’s something you haven’t heard before. The litany of folks crawling up on soapboxes to castigate the restaurant...
Critics Choice Awards 2011Alice in wonderland is nominated for best comedy/musical?? Wow they really messed up this year LOL.. Critics Choice got it right, I agree with most of their nominations. "critics choice...
opinion by kyro | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 487 views | 2 recommendations | 0 comments
When I was in high school, I confronted my European History teacher with a statement made in a book by former US Secretary of State Zbigniew Brzezinski that at the beginning of 19th century China produced as much steel as did England. My teacher ridiculed the statement,...
" CHEERS and jeers met the appointment of a new United States ambassador to the Philippines. In Malacañang, Press Secretary Cerge Remonde said US President Barack Obama's appointment of Harry Thomas Jr. shows the...
You never considered that, did you? You don't live in your own private world. Your actions affect others. You may think that "being anti-social" means a person is unwilling to socialize... You're wrong, if so. If...
opinion by dysamoria | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 583 views | 12 recommendations | 7 comments
According to the National Abortion Federation, one in three American women will have an abortion by age 45. Abortion is one of the safest medical procedures provided in the United States. Unfortunately, abortion, women's access to care, anti-abortion violence and...
opinion by Diligence | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 124 views | 2 recommendations | 0 comments
Canadian researchers have figured out a way to read the minds of disabled children who can't speak or gesture by scanning their brains with infrared light. This methodology decodes preference with 80% accuracy....
created by Yuliya Talmazan | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 238 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments