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All posts tagged Current Events

  1. SOPA, PIPA, and 13% January 18, 2012

    If you’re on the internet today you’ll have trouble avoiding online protests against two copyright infringement bills trying to pass through Congress.  I’ve been reading up on this for the past few months as momentum ...

  2. Mr. Burns December 5, 2009

    It seems Mr. Burns’ bid for mayor of New York City came up a little short a couple months ago.  Since he didn’t get on the ballot, he needed to rely on the write-in vote.  ...

  3. 2×2×…×2=2n November 28, 2009

    Unless you’ve been living in the Hadron Collider, I’m sure that you’ve noticed the recent obsession with vampires overtaking pop culture.  Twilight, Vampire Diaries, Cirque Du Freak,and so on and so forth.  There’s no need ...

  4. Really Kanye? September 14, 2009

    I’m typically not one to care much about what happens at celebrity award shows.  They celebrate themselves so many times it’s hard to keep the shows all straight… Oscars, Golden Globes, Grammys, AMAs, MTV, etc.  ...

  5. $855,232 in taxes April 15, 2009

    This is the first year that we didn’t file any taxes on April 15th <gasp>.  Instead we filed an extension for our federal taxes because we want to get the $8,000 first-time home buyer credit ...

  6. Debate October 8, 2008

    I casually watched the debate tonight.  By casually I mean “I surfed the web with the TV on in the background”.  The moments I actually paid attention I was pretty bored.  I know this is ...

  7. Leave it. September 30, 2008

    This is an x-ray released today of a teenage boy who was stabbed last November trying to stop a mugging in London. He survived and is now enrolled in college. He survived in part because ...

  8. Tragedy May 5, 2008

    I normally don’t do commentary on current events, but this story really irked me. The father and son pictured here went turkey hunting together and the young boy was told to stay near to this ...