Recently, a friend had a rant about internet activists that rail against “modern slavery” and American consumption of slave made goods. His point was that it’s all hot air unless they are offering a solution. He was questioning the logic of simply not buying… wouldn’t that put these people in the third world out of [...]
I was recently treated to a beautiful slideshow of a friends epic pilgrimage across the El Camino. Among the pictures of ancient roads and breathtaking sunsets over the french and spanish landscapes, I saw one picture that really struck me. It was a brook where the water flowed over round pebbles and larger stones, polished [...]
The aptly named “Egalia” in Stockholm is taking steps to break down gender barriers. Teachers will not address the children as “him or “her”, preferring the word “friends” rather than girls and boys. “Society expects girls to be girlie, nice and pretty and boys to be manly, rough and outgoing,” says Jenny Johnsson, a 31-year-old [...]
Ahhhhhh Cali. As my Midwestern relatives would say: “If they picked up America and shook it, all the fruits and nuts would would end up in California.” …or something like that, I wasn’t listening. I was too busy thinking of the sun, surf, crazy sights & sounds of LA LA LAND. Well, I have lived [...]
Ok Forest Gump, you ran across the USA… now how about doing it across Australia in a Storm Trooper costume?? Huh?? Yeh… Didn’t think so. That’s right folks one man is doing a challenge so great, that it’s almost inconceivable. Jacob French, an intrepid Aussie, is walking across Australia while wearing Star Wars stormtrooper armor [...]
Stepping Stone is a Canadian advocacy group for sex workers, and they have launched a campaign to make people re-think their predjudice and stereotyping of sex workers. “In a new interview with Canada’s National Post, the nonprofit’s executive director says the campaign was motivated in part by the way prostitutes are referenced in crime coverage. [...]
The Inner Balance™ wave is about “finding a deeper meaning”. One of the times when this resonates the strongest is with questions of faith. And one of the times this really comes in to focus is when someone admits they have an uncontrollable addiction. Recently a Toronto directory of AA meeting removed two secular groups [...]
The man that too beautiful to be topless!! The Daily Mail reports: “Barnes & Noble is said to have told Dossier’s distributor that it would have to forfeit the order or agree to a covering concealing the image. It said that though it understood that Mr Pejic was male and not female, ‘the model is [...]
I came across this glass that is cleverly using design to make a point. It’s a 16 oz. glass with a hole strategically placed at a line near the top that makes you question whether you really need to fill it up all the way. To me, it’s a metaphorical piece that’s making a statement [...]
Behold the Missionary Church of Kopimism – who hold CTRL+C and CTRL+V as sacred symbols! They hope that by making file-sharing a religion they can gain acceptance, not only with society but also with the police. Founded by 19-year-old philosophy student, Isaac Gerson, this brand new church believes that copying and the sharing of information [...]