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Rob Ford Says the Darndest Things
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford filed for reelection today, the election being slated for this October. As a refresher course, this is the man who admitted having an alcohol problem and admitted using crack cocaine after a photo or video circulated of him using it. I’m sure politicians have had drug problems before, but it also […]
The Tradition of Olympic Violence
Recently there have been two bombings in the Russian city of Volgograd, which is significant because it is a transportation hub near Sochi, the Olympic host city in 2014. Because some people are shocked and appalled it’s easy to forget how routine incidents like this around the Olympics really are. I wasn’t alive for this […]
Pregnancy Creates the Best Moral Dilemmas
We have a brain dead woman being kept alive by life support. She clearly stated to her husband that she did not want to be kept alive by machines. The solution is simple enough, right? You remove her from life support and mourn the dead. Plot twist! The woman is pregnant. And in the great […]
The Missing Link
I was scanning Twitter this morning, looking for a good booty call, when I came across this headline “World War II veteran en route to Pearl Harbor ceremony booted from flight.” I knew the story was going to follow a certain formula, so I read it so I could write this blog post. In the […]
R.I.P. Morgan Freeman
The actor died yesterday at age 76. Freeman was best known for spending 27 years in Shawshank State Prison where he and Tim Robbins brought racial harmony to South Maine. Corruption ran deep during Freeman’s stay at Shawshank. Tim Robbins was falsely accused of murdering his wife and another man, charges that he continually denied. […]
Capital Fools 