The subtle ways in which some media outlets will deliberately attempt to manipulate public opinion rather than just reporting the facts never ceases to amaze me.  This article about the health care bill provides an excellent example of what real media bias looks like – the subtle manipulation of public opinion though the use of…

How Facebook Is Destroying Democracy Date: 2010-03-08 Source: Master_Extraction (lowgenius.net) Original Text Original Text President Obama has proposed a 1.4% pay increase for active duty military in 2011. This is THE LOWEST SINCE 1973! Nice to know that during a time of rampant inflation, while war is fought in 2 theatres, our men and women…

Disclaimer:  This article deals with sexual topics in a frank and straightforward manner.  If you have an issue with this, please read no further.  Also please note that comments are, as always, screened…so be nice and wash the blue paint off your nose before you type. Let’s talk about sex, baby.  Now, I don’t want…

So people who have known me for a long time know that occasionally I’ll get into a space where “things happen.”  The stars align, the clouds part, and for a little while all of the potentials and hopes and maybe that I often talk about start happening.  It’s actually a fairly regular pattern in my…

Getting to be that time of year again, isn’t it?  They just come faster and faster.  In “Future Shock” by Alvin Toffler, the author suggests that time – relative, subjective time – goes faster as we age because each passing unit of time represents a smaller portion of our total life span to that moment. …

Part 1:  Apps, Games, Causes, Etc. As my group of friends on Facebook grows, I find myself being hit with all the games and kisses and mafia wars and farmvilles that each of those friends plays. I don’t play any of them.  One of the reasons I don’t play any of them is that I…

A rather intense ‘debate’ on health care has erupted on a friend’s facebook page in which I am one of the participants.  For the following reasons, I’ve chosen to move it here (note:  'Racer X' has respectfully requested I not use his real name, as the original conversation is friends-only.  I have respected that request…

I’ve had it up to my eyeballs with drama.  For one thing, I’ve had far more of it in my personal life over the last few months than I ever wanted or needed, as many of you already know.  This isn’t about my personal life though.  This is about…everybody, really. Here in Michigan, as most…

Homeless in two days Date: 2009-06-15 Source: Master_Extraction (lowgenius.net) Original Text [The original 1,922-word essay from 2009. It details the shock and anger of being told to move out of a friend’s house in California just four weeks after driving 3,000 miles to get there. It describes the financial desperation ($2.06) and the feeling of…

Tom Petty Lied Date: 2009-05-16 Source: Master_Extraction (lowgenius.net) Original Text Tom Petty Lied Date: 2009-05-16 Source: Master_Extraction (lowgenius.net) Original Text No, Tom, the waiting is definitely not the hardest part. The hardest part is when, for the first time in twenty years, you’re leaving your only child: Intentionally Without knowing when you’ll ever see her…