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Ever the aspiring writer since my early youth, spending countless hours creating fantastic comic book characters replete with elaborate coloring and lively dialogue, I'm also one who needed some major "attitude adjustment" from teachers and others to get

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Politics, News & Issues > Pulitzer Center Is the accidental killing of civilians by US forces, in places like Somalia, an unavoidable part of the war on terrorism?: 31 of 93

Collateral damage is a ubiquitous thing - it scars children of divorce, the elderly who due to red tape and bureaucracy are denied access to health care, and of course millions who've no truck in a given dispute, nor even any involvement on the field of battle. Even though everyone can seemingly make an ironclad argument tha...
Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: If you could have a one-hour interview with any human being past or present, who would it be?: 68 of 188

There are countless people for whom I'd give my eye teeth to interview, but William Shakespeare is who I'd most like to engage in an hour-long interview. OK. My choice is a realtively easy one to make, chiefly because uniqueness of universal name recognition and a magnetic persona combine for this individual such that his re...
Computers & Technology > Phone Technologies & Issues Should cell phone use be banned while driving?: 66 of 180

(Please, Helium reader - help "lift the frog" so this re-written version rates higher and leaps by bounds over the original, flaw-filled submission opposite) An ironclad, compelling-in-the-telling and solely fact-based argument can be made in favor of government intervention to ban the use of cell phones and other wireless d...
Politics, News & Issues > US Elections Does the press pick presidents?: 9 of 24

As the presidential primaries heat things up - especially in the wake of Super Tuesday's tallies and all the primaries that lie ahead - we see the media on a daily basis as pyromaniacs, seemingly hell bent to throw flaming flagrons of fuel on the races to stoke up greater public interest in the subject. In fact, without any ...
Politics, News & Issues > Justice System Assessing the death penalty: 43 of 97

Shock and Awe: A Perspective on the Death Penalty Debate Though the data I reference here is now a tad dated, it retains enough validity to underscore in red the extent to which I and others have been surprised to learn about the true scope and dimension of the death penalty debate. For one thing, I was greatly surprised to ...
Arts & Humanities > Thoughts on Writing Defining the art of writing: 4 of 9

To define the art of writing is to essentially invoke the question asked by the sages of all ages as to what it is, exactly, that constitutes the quintessential ingredient of good writing? Writers and thinker-philosophers throughout the ages have puzzled and wrung their hands over this burning and controversial question, and...
Travel > Travel Planning & Advice Should US citizens be allowed to travel to Cuba?: 10 of 20

If we can travel to Cuba or anywhere else in our imagination, then why not indeed in a physical manifestation? It's an absurd notion to maintain in 2008 the ideas and ideals that led our government leaders to this monumental micro-management morass decades ago, during the so-called Cold War period. With that era now gone wit...
Arts & Humanities > Ancient History Hippocratic medicine in the ancient world: 1 of 2

Despite the absence of authoritative answers to many critical questions about the life and writings of Hippocrates, it is clear from scholarly examination of classical texts and other evidence that Hippocratic teaching, focused on the human body and balance among what he identified to be the four humors, was basically a scie...
Politics, News & Issues > Political & Economic Theory Are the Fed's recent interest rate cuts good for consumers?: 1 of 2

Let's SPEND our way forward, I say, to repudiate the pundits, politicians and public policy "experts" who proclaim an economic recession to be inevitable and unavoidable. Yes, you read that right. Let's spend. And spend. And spend! The Federal Reserve's repeated rate cuts in the prime lending rate of late is a great thing, a...
Politics, News & Issues > Politics in the UK The rule of law and the UK's Parliamentary Democracy: 1 of 2

The legal nature and character of the UK's constitutional democracy, which over several hundred centuries has undergone and continues to undergo a constant process of evolution, serves as a solid point of departure in any examination and analysis of Albert Venn Dicey's views on the rule of law in a constitutional democracy, ...