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Sharon Stone learns the definition of Karma

June 4th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Dr. Words defines Karma in part as “the theory of inevitable consequence”.  But last week in a red carpet interview, Sharon Stone wondered out loud if the earth quake that devastated China is karma.  She also thought it to be an interesting revelation that followers of the Dalai Lama wanted to help the Chinese people […]

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Poverty and the Working Class

June 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

Katrina Gill, a thirty-six year old nursing aid from Portland Oregon works the graveyard shift; taking care of twenty-eight elderly patients for nine dollars thirty-two cents an hour.  Katrina does not receive health insurance from her employer.  As a result, Katrina and her working husband pay a six-hundred-forty dollar a month insurance premium and have […]

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Cho Seung-Hui: The Virginia Tech Massacre

June 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

On August 1, 1966, Charles Whitman a student from the University of Texas and a United States Marine, already having killed his own mother and wife, opened a random assassination attack from the top of the 307-foot, Texas Tower, killing fourteen people and injuring dozens of others (The Crime Library, 2007). For almost 41 years, […]

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The General Election May Be Boring

June 2nd, 2008 · No Comments

The Huffington Post is reporting on  the results of a recent Gallup Poll survey showing that 67% of all Americans agree with the idea of the president meeting with heads of foreign countries, even if they are considered to be our enemy.  The survey shows that Democrats and Independents are more likely to agree, but […]

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Seriously, what is the deal with Florida?

May 30th, 2008 · 3 Comments

I know some may be offended by this, but I’m seriously wondering if trash moves to Florida, or does Florida make them that way?  According to Hillary Clinton, Florida is an incredibly important state, so this blog post will kill my chances for the presidency, but it has gotten to the point that I can […]

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Josh Lefkowitz is an ass

May 28th, 2008 · No Comments

Have you ever posted to Craigslist with a legit ad only to have some ass-clown “flag” your ad for some unknown reason?  I don’t blame Craigslist for this, they have developed a system to let the community police itself. Unfortunately this has a Stanford prison experiment effect that makes some users think they are somehow […]

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Casey Mundling Arrested for Raping a 15 Year Old Girl

May 15th, 2008 · 16 Comments

Sometime on Thursday May 1st, beneath the videos of sneezing pandas, exploding coke and Mentos, and Batman commercials, a 16 year old girl named Crystal uploaded a desperate plea for help.  In this video a young girl is crying and asking for help because the district attorney in Orange County, Florida has dropped the case […]

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Charles Ray Fuller - (nearly) the richest man in the world

May 1st, 2008 · 6 Comments

As a criminal you have to chose if you want to spend an entire life in crime, or just go for that one big score.  If you plan out and execute a big enough crime, you could just flee the country and live out your days like a bad Pierce Brosnan movie on some tropical […]

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Buying a Ferrari Knock-Off in Italy

March 4th, 2008 · No Comments

When I was a child I was enamored with Ferraris and convinced that someday I would own one.  Keep in mind that this was the mid-eighties, so Miami Vice was the show to watch, and never has there been a better advertisement for Ferrari. 

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