Today marks the predicted judgement day of the world, May 21, 2011. Unfortunately if this is true then I will fail to celebrate my 26th birthday a week from today, but oh well I suppose I have bigger fish to fry than that if I will soon be judged and either sent to enjoy an afterlife of happiness or one [...]

President Obama’s State of the Union address tonight was very broad in its scope and left very few details. Once again, calling for bi-partisan action to bring down the budget deficit, fix the health care law, improve education and become more competitive. I’m not sure how much of this will be achieved because of the bitter differences between Republicans and [...]

It is saddening to see how quickly people’s opinions and actions have shifted in the wake of the Gulf oil spill. For instance, students, professors and the general public are demanding that UC Berkeley sever ties with BP because of the spill. BP provided a $500 Million grant to create an institute that is working on developing new plant based [...]

I have been following the BP disaster in the Gulf quite closely and have been especially observant regarding the business and economic ramifications of the event and I feel I have a solution to the revenue problem being realized by station owners. I will be the first to say that a boycott against BP branded gas stations is a childish [...]

Conan O’Brien just finished his last episode of The Tonight Show. I have not been a long-time fan or follower of O’Brien, but the recent controversy surrounding NBC’s decision to shake up the late night line up had me tuning into his show regularly for the past couple of weeks.  I grew to enjoy his show and comedic delivery and [...]

I am happy to see the US House of Representatives passed a bill that will increase Pell Grant funding and lower stafford loan borrowing costs for those of us that are continuing our education at the college level. The bill will eliminate government subsidies to banks issuing Stafford Loans and will now make those loans funded directly by the government. [...]

In a purely selfless gesture, the rapper Ludacris has given away brand new cars to 20 people who wrote essays to his foundation explaining how having a car would help them in getting to work and keeping their jobs. Luda received thousands of essays and chose the 20 most touching examples of Americans dealing with unique hardship and pushing through [...]

I am not surprised by the hypocritical position of Defense Secretary Robert Gates forcefully asking that the AP not publish a photo of a fatally wounded Marine in Afghanistan.  Why is it ok for the news media to take pictures of dead, maimed, and disfigured Afghanis and Iraqis and publish those photos without objection, but it’s not acceptable for the [...]

There was no winner in the August 25 Mega Millions drawing, bringing Friday’s jackpot to $325 Million! The cash options pays out a whopping $204.5 Million. [tags]mega millions, shaun carter, jackpot, drawing, lotto, lottery[/tags]

In an expected turn of events, an unnamed source divulged that Michael Jackson‘s autopsy showed his body had a lethal level of propofol in it at the time of his death. While this certainly will warrant a successful wrongful death lawsuit and medical malpractice charges, it appears that Jackson brought this on himself. He had been shopping for drugs, doctors [...]