Okay, I'll admit -- I'm one of those young'uns that have a Facebook. No, I'm not all about social networking, but I figured I needed a place where I could catch up with old friends after I've forgotten about them for some time. Aside from asking the mundane questions of "how are you?" and "what's up?", I often post small "notes" about random things. Some serious, some not. Read More »
social conflict
Illegals: The Puppeteers of the US Government
By inadvertentinte... - Posted on May 7th, 2008
Tagged: Government
• social conflict
What I'm pregnant? Rumors, Revenge, and Relization
By Bluraidergirl06 - Posted on March 11th, 2008
I thought maybe since I this is my first blog to start out with something nice and sweet, but my life has been the farthest thing from it lately. A couple years this great movie Mean Girls came out and it was a hit. It was a hit with teens across America because it represented true high school life. It showed that even the bitchiest girl could beQueen Bee if she was hot and rich. Read More »
Change
By queen_rozie - Posted on March 1st, 2008
Tagged: social conflict
Everyday. everywhere I go. There are people. Unhappy people. People, hurt, tormented, enraged, by something they desperately want to change, but they just can't: themselves. Read More »
Confronting eating disorders -- where do we draw the line?
By A-squared - Posted on February 22nd, 2008
Tagged: Society
• Awareness
• confrontation
• eating disorders
• Exercise
• health and wellness
• negligence
• Personal Reflection
• responsibility
• social conflict
• societal relationships
• Health
• Broad prosperity
• Shared responsibility
• Personal freedom
Eighty percent of the times that I have walked into the fitness center this year, her skeleton-like frame has come into view. She is on the elliptical, she is working out hard, and she looks like she is going to break in half. I can see her veins and bones through her pallid skin, and the dark moons under her eyes make me feel like I am staring at a walking (well, running) corpse. Read More »
Blood may be thicker, but neither care
By b_hughes - Posted on October 16th, 2007
Tagged: social conflict
• Personal freedom
I think my brother's autistic.
By lasinlaur - Posted on October 15th, 2007
"Autism is a brain development disorder characterized by impairments in social interaction and communication, and restricted and repetitive behavior, all exhibited before a child is three years old."--Wikipedia Read More »
Got SLAPPed in the face? Keep talking.
By kfed - Posted on June 30th, 2007
Tagged: Free Speech
• journalistic integrity
• social conflict
• writing
• Broad prosperity
• Shared responsibility
• Personal freedom
• Better future
Yaman Salahi's day in court is over, but his days of writing about people he believes are wrong is just beginning.
In a related post [Students for Justice (in small claims court)], I relayed the story of Yaman Salahi, a UC Berkeley student and activist who recently lost a lawsuit brought by Lee Kaplan, a right-wing investigative "journalist." As the other article concludes, I really see no evidence for why Kaplan won; I felt Salahi's documents were persuasive and well-supported with evidence, whereas Kaplan's documents were riddled with factual errors and misunderstandings about the way technology works, not to mention brought up far more than was relevant to the ca Read More »
