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Disruptions from small recessions to extinction events
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Societal_collapse Toynbee argues that the breakdown of civilizations is not caused by loss of control over the environment, over the human environment, or attacks from outside. Rather, it comes from the ...

terry schiavo family?
terry schiavo is dead, but the real disease continues. terry's plight has raised awareness about living wills, arguments about medical ethics, legal wrangling and exposed the real story in this sad ending. her families absolute hate for ...

nba age limit?
david stern has brought public an idea to raise the age limit in the nba to 20 years old. this is a tough one for me. on one hand, i love the idea that it would make the nba game better as well as the college game. ...

mccarthyism strikes the collapse
ladies and gentlemen! no wait, not enough people read us for that greeting. friends and family! nope, again, i don't have any friends and my family hates me. mom, look someone new is writing for the website! ...

new pope, same problem
this post waited for the period of mourning to end. out of common decency not out of fawning respect for the late pope. while john paul ii was a revered person, he had his own flaws, mostly institutional. and the funny thing is that now ...

where in the world is bob hegney?
you know, kind of like "where in the world is carmen sandiego" except bob is a real person. seriously though, where is bob? we miss you bob. come back soon!

facebook this bitches!
ok, so i work in "higher education" with the national staff of a national fraternity (read higher education however you wish to), i have been to about 25 different college campuses in the course of the past eight and a half months and i ...

the end of semester rush
for the two or three fans that i actually have, i apologize for my absence. i know that other writers being mia is common on this site but you do not expect to see it from me. this is the end of semester rush for me (finally my last as ...

gore-vision
al gore has announced that he is starting a new television network dubbed current. and that lone sentence is more interesting than the network will ever be. "we have no intention of being a democratic channel, a liberal channel, ...

hello
i am the elder statesman of this group. i am going to contribute to this effort by writing about cultural events with a religious perspective. this is the first time that i have taken the opportunity to participate in a public forum. ...