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By Il Mafioso on Friday December 11th, 2009
Technology in War: Our Responsibility
THE DILEMMA
Science is one of the great achievements of man. It has enabled us as a species to understand how the world around us works and why. It allows us to cure people of diseases that would have been incurable scarcely fifty years...
By Il Mafioso on Sunday November 22nd, 2009
This month, two people to which I have been close have passed away. I am writing this because I need to remember them. All I have of them is memories, and without those, they truly will have died for me. While I remember them, they are never far away and I can bring them to life with but a...
By Abrodite on Monday August 10th, 2009
Hollywood, circa 1920-50: The Golden Age of cinema. These were the moments in film when cliches were created. These were the classics that defined movies - Casablanca, It's a Wonderful Life - this was the reign of the kings of cinema - Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Frank Capra. These movies...
By Bonnie Bright-o on Friday August 7th, 2009
Yes, I have already wrote a piece about Facebook (oh crap, I just inadvertently gave away "Facebook Whore's" identity!), but I feel that Facebook is becoming an overwhelmingly large aspect of life in general, it surely deserves more than the maybe-half-page-long essay I wrote before. This is...
By IlMafioso on Tuesday July 21st, 2009
The sovereign nation-state is far from being an obsolete institution. In fact, the concept of the nation-state has been evolving from being a sovereign people to being a sovereign nation since its conception. This evolution will continue because sovereign entities have continued to grow, and with...
By Twitter Whore on Monday June 22nd, 2009
With all the articles floating around the interwebs about Twitter recently, I figure one more could not hurt. Only, this one will be slightly different - it is not from the views of the news analysts or the journalists who simply peruse the idea of Twitter given the current Iran stuff going on, but...
By Verbivores on Wednesday June 10th, 2009
“I tried to kill the pain, but only brought more, I lay dying and I’m pouring crimson regret and betrayal…I’m dying…” Evanescence, ladies and gentlemen; the embodiment of the newly emerged subculture of Emo. We shall first trace the history of this subculture. It emerged in the mid...
By Arick Wang on Friday June 5th, 2009
Needless to say, in all the hum and buzz of the world wooshing past our heads, it is easy to begin to feel lost, and hopeless... depressed even. So we all have our little ways to get by mostly unscathed and mostly still sane, the kind of condition which you can sell on ebay as "like new" but you...
By A Facebook Whore on Thursday June 4th, 2009
Sometime in the last decade, the notion of discretion has become old-fashioned. This change is due to the rise of those social tools that serve simply to keep us connected with everybody at all times: specifically Facebook. With its introduction suddenly nobody is private, nobody is discrete...
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