Forum: Philosophy and Current Events

Honestly, this seems like a good idea to me. Please make sure you read the entire article before discussing the issue here. There are some very...

Some experts claim that violent video games lead kids to be violent themselves. They claim that music influences people to do things they would not...

Some of these are funny... Dumb Laws Some Massachusetts Laws:

The Article A Ninth Grader asked a captured pilot (one that the movie Blackhawk Down was based upon) whether he was raped during his time being...

California girl expelled from Christian school because parents are lesbian This is ridiculous but that's the Christian faith for ya. I heard this...

Heh, the old 'evil unions' talking point. Some dude makes 30 million dollars running an airline that goes belly up, and the unecessary expense is...

Hoping that everyone who had to deal with this hurricane is okay. I know most must be without power. Let us know if you're okay!

I'm sure most of you heard about this story... Jet Blue Unreal. To watch yourself on tv? Scary! The one thing that burns me is this quote:

This is a bit long, but the link would require people to register on the Washington Post site, and I hate that. Anyway, I think some very valid...

http://www.addadhdadvances.com/ODD.html Like WOW! Imagine how relieved some parents are to be able to medicate their kids to another quack...

As an employee in what is termed a "small business" I understand that if the company goes bankrupt that means I'm out of a job. The shit has hit the...

Political Predictions What are your political predictions for the future? Based on fact, or pure speculation, two years away or fifty, let’s hear...

I find this to be VERY suspicious: http://www.dailyherald.com/search/searchstory.asp?id=96641 Now, I can somewhat see why someone would...

At the age of 96, Simon Wiesenthal died today after a long illness. Although he was best known as an unwavering "Nazi Hunter", Wiesenthal also...

A miracle? Can this man save the world?

Through a dutch newsmessage i came across Dr. Phil's website and read about his show, with Beth twitty, about Natalee Holloway's disappearance. One...

Dolphin Rescue This has been fascinating to me. I don't really know how it makes me feel except that you'd think zoos would have a plan for...

Atheism is a religion too. A country can decide that they are atheist, legislate to try to enforce that, and then go off and try to kill Christians...

Very few right-wing Muslims are terrorists. Very few right-wing Christians are terrorists. A few muslim extremists have hijacked planes and blown...

Here's the story from Yahoo: http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050911/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/nuclear_doctrine Reading these kinds of...

I'm reading alot on the web and in papers about the government's response to Hurricane Katrina; that they weren't quick enough, and that this sort of...

So by now we all know that Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff is a bureaucrat who certainly doesn't have the Right Stuff to run Homeland...

I remember some years back you were not happy with the Chinese government in that you thought it was improper for them to host the Olympics seeing as...

I read an interesting article at a horrible site. I knew most of it already, but the write up was done very well :) Don't go *anywhere* else on the...

Just as we see the EU becoming an open region to all of its member countries, the US has closed one door between its most immediate neighbour. ...