Detroit hosted Super Bowl XL in February amidst a city staggering with nearly 50,000 abandoned houses and a 14.1% unemployment rate. Police swept the homeless off the streets to project a goodly image to the world.
The perpetual war on women’s lives continues unabated. The recent U.S.
Supreme Court ruling that allows protestors to continue to terrorize women
at abortion clinics and South Dakota’s ban on virtually all abortions (with
other states...
NEW ORLEANS, LA Carnival 2006...As a mild sociopath with a fear of crowds
and parades, I had been awaiting this event with a mixture of childlike
anticipation and abject terror. Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, marks the end
of the revelry...
AUSTIN, Texas -- South Dakota is so rarely found on the leading edge of the far out, the wiggy, the California-esque. But it has now staked its claim. First to Outlaw Abortion This Century. The state legislature of South Dakota, in all its...
On a cold, cloudy night, the lines threaded all the way around the Ohio State campus. News that Kurt Vonnegut was speaking at the Ohio Union prompted these “apathetic” heartland college students to start lining up in the early afternoon...