Tennis Star poisoned?

International sports may have reached an all new low if the suspected allegations are true. In addition to betting scandals in the NBA and baseball, dog-fighting, hit-men for hire in figure skating stabbing in tennis, once again tennis has been implicated in one of the most disgraceful things I have ever heard of, an alleged [...]

How Much Do you Love your pet?

A few years ago, a radio station posed the question for which the answer was thought to be very obvious, however, this was not to be the case. Of course everyone has an opinion and their reasons for giving such answers, but it may reflect a disturbing situation in our society, okay so you are [...]

Two-Time NBA Champ Isiah Thomas Guilty of Sexual Harassment

Former Detroit Piston and NBA Champion, and currently New York Knicks coach and president Isiah Thomas, has been found guilty of sexual harassment towards plantiff Anucha Browne Sanders. Thomas has been pleading his innocence since the beginning of the trial and has continued to do so, even after the verdict. Isiah Thomas had reportedly [...]

Brain-Eating Amoeba

A rare Amoeba that causes a form of encephalitis that is apparently 95% fatal has recently popped up again, 6 deaths have already occurred in the US this year. The symptoms are similar to meningitis such as fever, stiff neck and headache. Children seem to be most susceptible to the disease. The amoeba flourishes in [...]

Prostitution with Government Regulation

Once again, government has shown that everything can be legal as long as it is profitable. In Budapest, Hungary where prostitution is a billion dollar industry annually and illegal, the government will now allow prostitutes to apply for an entrepeneur’s permit, from which the government can make a profit. The permit allows sex workers [...]

Free speech or no

The Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad an invited speaker at Columbia University has raised several eyebrows, aside from the political climate regarding the war in which he has questioned the Sept 11 attacks, doubts the Holocaust and is a staunch supporter of the destruction of Israel and apparently was rumored to say death to Americans upon [...]

Alzheimer’s Part I: Disease

In 1906 Alois Alzheimer a neuropathologist (or so they say) was the first to diagnose the disease which is named after him from a 55 year old patient Auguste D. Since for the most part, Alzheimer’s is a disease of the elderly, occurring in people over the age of 60, it was somewhat of a [...]

Who Says you are old for video Games?

So much for solitaire, bingo and bridge for retirement communities. Now, a trend that I am sure other retirement homes hope catch on, show that some retirement homes such as that of the retirement community in Birmingham, England have introduced gaming, and the results have been exceptional or more to the point addictive. The addiction, [...]

From Greece to California

From the wildfires in Greece to California, almost 2,000 Californians flee there homes as a state of emergency is declared. Two wildfires raged out of control in the southern part of California, the wildfires consumed more than 15,000 acres of land in the San Bernardino National Forest. With nearly 2,000 residents gone, 340 residents have [...]

Football (Soccer) Etiquette

So if you have been following the FIFA Women’s World Cup than you are probably aware of the beating taken by Argentina at the hands of Germany, 11-0. Some internet outlets (who will remain nameless) have questioned if this is a reasonable result or is this just mean-spirited? That is to say that in the [...]

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