What's sexier than an accent? I'll admit, I find Colin Farrell's Irish accent pretty attractive. Movies play up the role of the sexy foreign exchange student with a cute Swedish or sexy Russian accent. We love people's accents who speak Spanish -- so why don't people from other countries appreciate the American accent? The American accent gets no respect as an actua
A recent opinion article by Charles Krauthammer in Time magazine criticized Al Gore for being hypocritical on his own stance with the environmental movevement.
I was watching Fox News while I ate my breakfast the other day -- I certainly don't think that Fox is a fair and balanced news source, but I like a fair and balanced selection of the news sources I intake. Current presidential nominee Tommy Thompson was on, talking about his campaign and then about his policy in Iraq and I have to admit that I think his plan is intelligent. He said the
Today in one of my classes, we watched a video on Youtube titled, "Cool Facts about Israel." We were supposed to watch the video and dissect what was being said and how it was being said. The video talked about how Israel's technological advances, their advances in medicine, and the general intelligence of their population. They have the most scientists and engineers per cap
I watched the documentary Thirst in one of my classes recently, a documentary about several cities fighting against the privatization of their water. The public water utility was privatized in Cochabamba, Bolivia's second largest city, against the will of the people. After the measure was approved, the people took to the streets in protest until the city canceled the sale. Un
Wade Steffey was a 19 year old Purdue freshman from Bloomington, IN who disappeared about 12:30 AM on January 13th, 2007. He was discovered yesterday, deceased, in a high voltage utility room of Owen Hall, the building at which he was last seen. He had called a friend because he was trying to get into Owen, which was not his dorm, because he had left his jacket there. It is currently ass
Liberals are often divided on the subject of rap and hip-hop music. While my dad just dismisses it as not being music, others are preturbed by lyrics that are sometimes misogynistic, violent, racy, and controversial. Fans of rap, however, argue that rap is just a new kind of music used for self-expression -- or just some great beats to get down to. Many rap artists say that they are just
What is blogging really for? I realized lately that how I view the benefit of blogging is quite different from the opinion of many others. I like to write my posts as open-ended questions, with a topic and some interesting information -- ultimately something that I hope will be thought-provoking. I realized when reading other people's comments and posts that they subscribe to a differ
