Or, lets say that we are NOT the cause of global warming. Then that frees us of the burden of having to correct it, right? Wrong. Even if we're not the cause of it, it's happening anyway. So, doesn't it seem like a good idea to plan for the future?
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It was generally held for a long time that hunting, the act of stalking live prey and then killing it, contributed a great deal to our natural aggressive tendencies. After…
Having personally gone through theism and agnosticism, I fully understand why people would want to call themselves agnostic atheists.
In a recent discussion about Bernie Sanders, someone said that he could never have been elected because he was a self-avowed socialist. I called that into question, and (of course)…
We need to stop using the term “atheism” because it refers to something that does not exist.
About an hour ago Kari woke me up talking about planes and hijacking or something. She was so serious that I hopped immediately out of bed and we flipped on…
The trick to dealing with trolls is learning to recognize them when you see them so you can learn to avoid playing their game.
All late night talk shows (aside from the Daily Show and the Colbert Report) are lame and practically worthless. They’re formulaic, unoriginal, and pander to the widest audience possible. Half…
The G-8 was created out of the eight richest countries in the world in order to fight poverty in Africa. Poverty affects more people throughout the world than all of…
I recently got into another discussion about global warming, and the person I was talking to said they weren’t convinced that humans were the cause of it. Though it’s just…
1. Write a five-sentence summary about the whole paper, and try to make it mimic what your paper will look like when you’re done. The first sentence, like the first…
The legality of their citizenship is ultimately irrelevant. We can devise any number of laws to make people criminals (just look at the population of our prison system thanks to…
I’ve loved The Walking Dead since Glenn first called Rick a dumbass, and I unflinchingly purchase every episode because it is (and will always be) one of my favorites. A…
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America's behavior affects almost every corner of the world. As the self-proclaimed greatest nation on Earth, it's our duty to act like it.
The next time you hear Cheney say that America wasn't attacked after 9/11, ask an Iraq War veteran about roadside bombs.
We interact with our co-workers, our family members, and people randomly in public, but we don't really have to do much communication.
I grew up in this area, so I was around when KTXT became “Lubbock’s only alternative.” And, I’m old enough to remember the “this is your brain on drugs” commercials…
The issue of same-sex marriages has been a hot topic for many years, but not nearly as hot as it has been the past few. The most recent nation to…