Monthly Archives: May 2007
A great reason for no TV in the living room
At 6:00 pm Wednesday night, while moms across America were getting dinner ready and hungry kids were watching TV waiting for it to be served, Samantha Ventresca lay in her living room in Lawrence, NJ, pinned underneath her own family’s … Continue reading
Each citizen should have a right to vote in the US!
Republicans do cherish their little practical jokes – the leaflets in African-American neighborhoods warning that voters must pay outstanding traffic tickets before voting; the calls in Virginia in 2006 from the mythical “Virginia Election Commission” warning voters they would be … Continue reading
The lead singer is 90 Years Old? WHAT?
The Zimmers Band There’s nothing old about the way these 70, 80, 90+ year old people sing. Visit their Myspace Page. Watch the music video“My Generation”!
Pizzas fall from sky for homeless to honor
request of Executed prisoner.
The final meal request of Philip Workman ended up memorializing him in a way he probably never expected to be remembered – as the posthumous provider of pizza meals to thousands of Nashville homeless the day after his death.
What has the Iraq war cost?
$456 billion is the cost of the Iraq war so far. (Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images)
Gina is changing insurance and employment laws
New Scientist reports that the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act [GINA] won an overwhelming 420 to 3 majority vote in the House of Representatives. It will soon be illegal for an insurance company to charge higher rates to people genetically disposed … Continue reading
American Nazis publicly blame Jews for wars and gas hikes
Nazis in downtown Minnesota, publicly blame Jews for the gas hike, the Iraq war and claiming that the Talmud gives permission to Jews to have sex with three year old babies. None of these allegations are true, of course.
For some in Japan, a room is their world
An estimated one million Japanese youth suffer from a problem known in Japan as hikikomori, which translates as “withdrawal” and refers to a person sequestered in his room for six months or longer with no social life beyond his home. … Continue reading
World Without Oil: the online game
“Play it – before you live it” There’s a “very real possibility” that someday soon people will wake up worrying how they’ll get to work . . . because the world ran out of oil the night before. If you … Continue reading
Read tech blogs by WSJ journalists for free!
Some heavy hitting WSJ journalists are publishing articles and thoughts in an open-access blog atAll Things Digital.