Fail: The Great Wall of America

Well America, you lost another chance of showing the Chinese who's boss. 

The right to be a bad parent

Let's face it, there are lots of bad parents.  I work in an elementary school and the fact smacks me in the face every day.  Not everybody should be a mother or a father and the world would probably be a better place if some genes don't procreate.  But it's a fundamental right... right?

Freeze Frame

Neat video. Pointless and neat!


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Safe Sex: Almost good enough even for a Pope

Apart from apparently having insatiable sex drives, many Africans paradoxically maintain some strong Christian-Catholic beliefs...

But let's step back a little Africa has been battling AIDS for god knows how long, and when there's some news to hear it usually doesn't ever seem like it's gonna be the good kind. Really, when the countries of Africa aren't being plagued by corrupt governments, turmoil and chaos, natural catastrophies, pirates, military coups, starvation, exploitation, genocide, war and the occasional cough and sniffles---the continent is usually getting smacked around by the HIV virus and AIDS or some other epedemic.

So, where abortion seems like a difficult discussion, the use of condoms in a place where an STD is killing the masses?? Abstinence is a great solution for an ideal world- but that's like telling smokers to simply quit smoking. Problem solved?

It's a principle the church should be willing to bend on.... the war will go on, but this battle of "no condoms" isn't always the one to fight... AIDS comes first.

See the article concerning the Pope's comments

WTF Korea?¿

I get it. North and South Korea just don't get along. But seriously? This is like hearing about two kids on the playground, except instead of rocks they got missiles.

North and South Korea story



I'm curious to see how China and the U.S. are going to continue their counter-alliances...