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Prepare to be schooled. Legitimately.
On the second Tuesday in November, history will be made. America will have elected either its first African American president, more than 140 years after the Emancipation Proclamation, or the first woman vice president, nearly 90 years following the ratification of the bill that gave U.S. women the right [...]
Certain parts of the country are famous for different foods, in Boston you have clam chowder, in Maryland it’s Crab, Coney Island has hot dogs, Chicago touts deep dish pizza and in Philadelphia you love cheese steaks. One of the most famous is Geno’s Steaks and is a staple of many Philadelphia residents and a [...]
What may have been one of the largest collections of amazing music and programs in bittorrent format was raided last night and shut down. Mega torrent tracker OiNK, which had a near fight club attitude to advertising and was available to users only on an invite basis, seems to have been shut down for good. [...]
California Governor Schwarzenegger signed into law a new bill that will target 16 and 17 year old drivers on their cell phones. Starting July 1, 2008, officers will start to hand out $20 tickets for the first offense, $50 for each additional offense. At the same time, a different law becomes effective requiring all cell [...]
August 15, 2007 marked the first day that I, Adrienne, have been to court…
TRAFFIC COURT, that is!
In mid-July, I was pulled over on my way to work for “failure to obey a steady red.” In layman’s terms, that means I ran a red light (…which I didn’t). I wasn’t speeding at the time; [...]
I just got back from a four day trip to the Midwest (I live in eastern PA 10 miles from NJ), two days of which were spent driving. (Why the hell drive that far for 2 days you ask? Well, my pop won a Freedom Fighters award and was a grand marshal in [...]
On Saturday, a video surfaced on mainstream Greek media outlets depicting Greek police officers brutalizing migrant workers. In the video (taken on a camera phone), the officers force the 2 men to beat up one another as well as beatings from the officers themselves.
Apparently, the video has been widely circulated amongst Greek police officers [...]
[Insert deep, resounding sigh here]
Once again, our country just doesn’t get it.
We spend money on this instead of ending the war in Iraq, working to find energy alternatives in the wake of a petroleum price spike, feeding our impoverished, improving urban schools, or making my more heathcare more affordable. No, no - graffiti is the [...]
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President Bush vetoed the “Iraq Pullout” bill this week…and it shocks me that seemingly nobody sees what a brilliant public image move it was for BOTH parities. This had very little to [...]
On March 2, 2007 the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB), which oversees sound recording royalties paid by Internet radio services, increased Internet radio’s royalty burden between 300 and 1200 percent and thereby jeopardized the industry’s future. At the request of the Recording Industry Association of America, the CRB ignored the fact that Internet radio royalties were [...]