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Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Courtroom humor: 1 of 7
The traffic court district attorney dismissed another offender from interview and looked out at all the guilty people filling the courtroom and sitting in the finest and most expensive oak seats that they'd probably ever use. He read from his docket and called the next name on the list: "Frog!? Walter Danby Frog!""I beg your ... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Party Politics & Ideology What happened to the Reagan Republican?: 4 of 25
The first bit of legislation Ronald Reagan passed when he became president banned marijuana protesters from rallying on government property. That is the essence of the grass roots Republican of the eighties: if you don't like them, shut them up. Not unlike George W. Bush's cabinet's role in outing CIA agent, Valerie Plame, be... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Environmental Awareness The dangers of politicizing the issue of global warming: 4 of 19
"Humanity is sitting on a ticking time bomb. If the vast majority of the world's scientists are right, we have just ten years to avert a major catastrophe that could send our entire planet into a tail-spin of epic destruction involving extreme weather, floods, droughts, epidemics and killer heat waves beyond anything we have ... More..
Health & Fitness > Medicine Development Children and medication: Generation "Med"?: 21 of 72
The American Medical Association(AMA), the group that maintains heroin addiction by prescribing the morphine opiate to people of all ages with all types of physical health problems, is the group that over-prescribes, and allows the over-prescription of, ADHD and ADD medications. By the AMA's own statements, only 2-3 percent o... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Justice System Jessica's Law: How to punish child molesters: 10 of 30
In 22004, I was working as a nanny. Five to seven children(sometimes their cousins would visit and be my responsibility, as well) were in my care twenty-four/seven. That's a lot to look after. A roommate of the parents would often give me a hand.Some time after my being hired, I noticed strange activities in the children, I m... More..
Entertainment > Movie Genres Best movies ever: 37 of 81
For absolutely different reasons, each movie in this list is one of the number one movies ever made. Due to the incredibly high gross(out) of bad movies that have been coming out, 10:1, at least and growing, every year since 1900, the good movies have been harder to spot, much easier to miss. This list is in no particular ord... More..
Religion & Spirituality > Heaven, Hell & Afterlife What would happen if we knew when we were going to die: 11 of 24
If humans knew when they were going to die, what would happen? Anarchy? Confusion? Histeria? Will people do everything they ever wanted good or evil?To answer this question, lets look at some things people have done who know they are going to die:When the comedian, Bill Hicks, learned that he was going to die, he stopped just... More..
Politics, News & Issues > Terrorism Financial behavior of terrorists: 2 of 3
The number one backer of terror organizations is the opium trade. Opium is usually isomerised into two substances, Morphine, which is very popular with the American Medical Association, and Heroin, which is very popular with the American civilian.By maintaining the cycle of addiction, giving hospital patients addictive morphi... More..
Religion & Spirituality > Thoughts on God Deliberating on why God allows for evil: 66 of 93
According to the Old Testament, God is evil. All evil that occurs in the world is the fault of God."I form the alight, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.-Isaiah 45:7 (The King James version replaces "evil" with "disaster", but it's the same idea of where the torment of humanity... More..
Arts & Humanities > Marketing & Selling Writing Tips for writers on how to avoid illegitimate literary agents and publishers: 5 of 7
This is based entirely on a conversation I had with a scam publisher, and responses to my blog in which that conversation appeared.What happenned was on myspace.com, I was contacted and asked to submit a story to a magazine I'd never heard of. I checked it out and what caught my eye, right away, was the ten dollar reading fee... More..