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Delectable Dinosaurs
October 19th, 2009I love barbeque and have been hearing how good Dinosaur Barbeque is for a long time. Unfortunately, it has always been just a bit out of my reach until recently. On the way to the Syracuse airport, I made a stop to try the famed barbeque and was not disappointed in the least. Read More
Financing Microfinance
October 19th, 2009Yesterday, I made a loan to Ephraim, a man running a hotel/restaurant in Ntungamo, a small town in Uganda where I spent a few weeks last July. He’ll be using my money, along with the contributions of a number of other westerners, to offset the impact of recent high food prices on his business. Read More
Rules Are Not Meant To Be Broken
October 19th, 2009We all want to have faith in our government, in elected officials’ honesty and good intent. We want to believe in our President and in our system of government. President Obama has insisted that any health reform bill he signs will be deficit neutral and will place the nation on a more financially stable path in the long-term. Read More
Grants for Political Science Are a "Waterboarding" of American Children, Senator Claims
October 15th, 2009On Tuesday, the Senate debated an amendment put forth by Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK). Coburn's Amendement proposed a cut-off of funding for the National Science Foundation's political-science program. Read More
The Value of a Degree
October 14th, 2009The value of an intangible is always a difficult thing to calculate. Attempts can be, at times, rather controversial. An infamous example is that of the Ford Pinto. The Pinto was Ford's first attempt at a subcompact car in the United States and so was made with cost-cutting in mind. Unfortunately, in the process, the design for the car's fuel tank was a bit ... faulty. By faulty I mean, prone to explosion if the car were to be hit from the back. Read More
Not-So-Global Warming
October 13th, 2009In Malawi, a boy named William Kamkwamba powers his village by hooking a windmill that he built up to a generator. In Ethiopia, a woman named Bethlehem Tilahun Alemu runs a business making “SoleRebel” shoes, an answer to Nike and Adidas that produces zero emissions. Read More
Vampires: Now with Angst!
October 13th, 2009Apparently, there is some kind of camp code concerning New England vampires. When they get a little testy and out of control, some invisible camp counsellorship sticks them in a room with some plant things, so they will mummify and then turn into “living corpses” (except still-dead corpses, so just a dried-out corpses ... GROSS)! Didn’t you know? Read More
The Genius of Confession: Letterman Beats Him to the Punch
October 13th, 2009Last week David Letterman exposed himself for cheating on his wife with a CBS Late Show staff member, but also in a shocking twist of events as a victim of blackmail by another member of the CBS family. The alleged culprit? CBS News Producer, Robert “Joe” Halderman. Read More
Should the Death Penalty be Abolished?
October 13th, 2009Last week, the European Union announced a fairly radical stance on the use of capital punishment. For the first time, the EU said the death penalty should be abolished globally. Read More
Is it Something in the Water?
October 13th, 2009Eternal life and longevity have been a prominent theme in folklore and fairy tales since the dawn of time. With a new found obsession for vampires in fiction and movies, the old tale of the philosopher’s stone, and the ageless anecdote of the infamous Fountain of Youth, living forever has quite obviously been a lustful dream for the human population since the beginning of time. Read More