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I have this bone to pick with Hollywood: What ever happened to great horror films? You know the ones that you watch and can’t sleep for days, or months, after. Heck, even just shielding your eyes from a scene would suffice. I hear my parents talk about how movies like The Exorcist and how for [...]
OK, I’m going to be honest, this whole Swine Flu “pandemic” is getting a little out of hand. Don’t get me wrong, I know this is serious, and if things aren’t handled correctly, the situation can become worse. But let’s look at the facts before we fall into a world of chaos because of this: [...]
Note: This story ties into Matt’s Musings 3/21. I was watching Real Sports with Bryan Gumbel on HBO the other night; his show tackles not only big stories in major-league sports, but sports across the country. They covered a story about schools across the U.S. prohibiting kids from playing dodgeball. Their reason: Not everyone wins [...]
School teachers may need to rethink their age old tradition of not allowing students to chew gum in their classrooms. But a recent study by U.S. researchers has shown that students who chew gum in class – especially those in math classes – perform better than those who don’t chew gum. The 14-week study was [...]
Who would have thought that one day high school students would be getting paid by the state for their good grades? Where exactly was this when I was in high school? State representative Joe Deshotel, D-Beaumont, filed a bill to the Texas Legislators that would pay high school students at lower performing schools for their [...]
The idea of using technology to control global warming may seem a bit farfetched, but the conversation has popped up at the White House more than once. President Obama’s Science Adviser John Holdren said that the idea has sprung due to the fact that global warming is happening so rapidly. The idea is called geoengineering, [...]
After my last post when I said that CEOs of major corporations should stop being so greedy and taking multi-million dollar payouts with the state of the economy, I came to a new conclusion: Why doesn’t everyone in America start their own successful multi-million dollar business? Think about it, we could have about three million [...]
Usually I would take this time to write a humor piece, but I read some news today that really shocked me. Of the 1,023 Americans surveyed by the Opinion Research Corp and CNN, 76 percent, or about 777 Americans, agreed that the government should let General Motors and Chrysler, America’s two biggest automotive companies, file [...]
Sometimes a mother’s love can go a little too far. A son in Austria found that out the hard way after his mother’s non-stop repeated calls. A court in Klagenfurt, Austria fined her for repeatedly calling her son – some times up to 49 times a day. Yes, mom, my shower went fine and no, [...]
