"Except for religious conflicts and the petty wars of feudal lords, wars are primarily fought over resources and trade. President Woodrow Wilson recognized that this was the...
no wonder baby mama trailers make me laugh - tina fey said, "This is as close as you can get to seeing me and Amy in a movie version of Laverne and Shirley."if i had the money,...
time for the annual spreading of the poop. it's about this time of year that the entire north park campus smells like poo because of the mulch spread on the ground.i think...
i just found out that i missed the green apple festival celebrating earth day in chicago.dear windy city,last time i checked earth day is on tuesday.love,ericai missed, among...
my little motorcycle has gone on to a better place... also known as camp wonderland. hopefully the bike guru can get her running right.in the meantime, i have superglue...
(This article taken from freedomfolks.blogspot.com, May 3 2006)Propelled by a free trade agreement with the United States, apparel manufacturing is booming in Jordan, its...
riding a tandem bicycle in the park while the sun is setting = the epitome of bliss.today has gone by incredibly fast; it's almost 5 pm!i had a wicked fun weekend with friends,...
another day, another dollar. (not really.)rainy days and mondays always get me down, and today just so happens to be both of those.today is a day of paper writing and...
oops - i worked straight through band rehearsal. i'd rather not show up to something than show up a half hour late and have to admit that i forgot and lost track of...
crummy, crummy, crum crumb. i dislike crumbs. but not enough to make me stop eating toast.i'm hoping this headache is due to caffeine deprivation and not sinuses or...
In spite of the fact that slavery is a pervasive social constant, our understanding of it is episodic and localized. While we must respond to the situation in Sudan, we...
for some reason (and i honestly have no idea why or how this happened) i have a subscription to blender magazine. while thumbing through it i noticed this:Best Reason Not...
it seems i am not alone in my disgust of consumerism, desire to live sustainably, and other things which have led me to my current year-long project. judith levine wrote...
"Our capacity for self-government is spasmodic, and even while we preen ourselves on our critical and independent, free and rational decisions, we are the slaves of fashion and...
yeah, muito legal that i'm staying at home doing homework on a saturday night.WAKE UP, WAKE UP, on a saturday night... you know, ukraine memories even though i've never...
go pick up a copy of Understanding Global Slavery: A Reader by Kevin Bales. he is the president of Free The Slaves in DC (www.freetheslaves.net)"Admirably level-headed...
i feel like writing song lyrics is such a cop-out to a real journal post. how did we get the term 'cop-out', anyway? but sometimes, they're all i think about. ...
Americans consume more coffee than any other nation. On average, 108 million people in the U.S. drink coffee every day, consuming 2.3 billion pounds a year. Behind oil, coffee...