A survey conducted by the University of Texas found 237 reasons. According to this article in the NYT, "They even found a few people who claimed to have been motivated by the desire to have a child." The number one reason was “I was attracted to the person.â€Â On the…
When I was in my 20’s, I was called a “God damned atheist” by a man who was sorely disappointed that I didn’t march off to the Catholic Church with his family. I was dating his daughter at the time, and I had been welcomed to visit her family home…
That's what the broadcast license-renewal process has become: a rubber stamp procedure. The following are the words of FCC Commissioner Michael Copps: [U]nder pressure from media conglomerates, previous commissions have eviscerated the renewal process. Now we have what big broadcasters lovingly call “postcard renewal†— the agency typically rubber-stamps an application…
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Cartoons aren't always funny. Sometimes they make serious points more efficiently than a big page of prose. There's no better example than these cartoons from Cagle. This set is entitled "Latin America's View on Immigration."