filed under: Opinion

Last week, our local paper, The Times News, published a picture of a 12 year old girl and the bear she had shot on the front page.  The girl was obviously proud of her trophy, but I had to wonder if this is really the message that we want to send to our children; that […]

Pen pal writing is one of the most prolific hobbies around. You can make a new friend or even find a new love through the art of exchanging letters. People who engage in this hobby usually find out new and interesting things about countries they’ve never been to and it’s like you’re getting exposure to […]

This article just serves as an introduction to web2.0 for the grassroots people. So this article is by no means academic. I will try to avoid tech terms. Web2.0 is grassroots in the sense that if you look at web2.0 websites (meetup, craigslist, youtube, flickr, del.icio.us …), they are all built by the user. It […]

Identity theft is becoming a huge problem on the global scale because recently MSNBC aired a 2 hour special called ‘To Catch An ID Thief’ which is identical to the specials the network aired for the past couple years to where they teamed up with the online group PervertedJustice.com to bust internet sex predators. This […]

I may be the only person who notices this, or it simply may be a figment of my imagination, but why does it seem as gas prices increase, so does the amount of road construction?  I know it sounds silly, but I honestly believe the minute gas prices start to climb, every road crew in […]