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Our Experience at the Rally to Restore Sanity - Bruce Horst
I just wanted to post a quick follow-up to my last article , which was regarding the reason Jean and I were attending the Rally to Restore Sanity in Washington D.C. yesterday. I'm sitting in the airport awaiting our flight, and this seems like a good time to write my thoughts, before I get home... Submitted 1 year 102 days ago.

Talking and Texting While Driving - Is It Safe? No! - Lorrie Davids
In our Information Age of instant gratification, we let nothing stand in the way of receiving our next phone call, text, video, news report or (fill in the blank) tidbit sent to our smart phones. When we have a signal, we respond - even when driving? Cell phone use while driving is a dangerous... Submitted 358 days 17 hours ago.

Justin Bieber Social Media’s 2nd Most Influential Person Barack Obama 1st Over Palin Beck & Bush - Jennifer Stewart
So says Klout, a company based in San Francisco providing social media analytics which measure the influence of a social network user. Klout uses an algorithm that takes 35 factors into account. Data is collected from sites such as Twitter and Facebook and analyzed for the size of the... Submitted 1 year 12 days ago.

Oprah Reveals Big Secret Before Press Does: She Has A Sister; Her Father Says Every Family Has Secrets - Fran Larson
Yesterday, Oprah began her show by saying she had a big secret that she wanted to tell her fans. She also went on to say that she wanted to tell the public the story in her own way before the media could find out her secret and possibly lace it with untruths. Oprah said, “I have a half... Submitted 1 year 16 days ago.

Bristol Palin + Levi Johnston Engagement Off: Levi Impregnated His Old Girlfriend, Lanesia Garcia. - Fran Larson
Showbiz has just announced that Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston have now split again. It seems that Levi's old girlfriend, Lanesia Garcia is pregnant with his child. (Lanesia claims there are three possible fathers). Levi denies this rumor, so as of right now, no one knows for sure. He stated... Submitted 1 year 194 days ago.

Chelsea Clinton Wedding Saturday: More Expensive Than Tom Cruise + Katie Holmes Wedding - Fran Larson
Tomorrow is the big day Chelsea's wedding day. Neither President Obama nor I were invited and it will not be televised, so I will just have to imagine how it will be. For starters, it is supposed to be the biggest wedding of the year, according to Donnie Brown, a wedding planner featured in... Submitted 1 year 195 days ago.

Elizabeth Edwards And Others Who Survived 30 Years Of Marriage, Then Discovered Spouse A Stranger. - Fran Larson
I was mesmerized and glued to the television as I watched Elizabeth Edwards bravely talk about her new book, Resilience. She also discussed the reasons why her marriage failed after 30 years and four children (one child died). She stated that John Edwards was a wonderful man when she married... Submitted 1 year 224 days ago.

Why You Should Not Be Getting Relationship Advice From Cosmo - Abigail Richards
Cosmopolitan Magazine has been the go to magazine for many a girls over the years. It contains endless relationship advice from sexual techniques to finding out if that special someone is really in to you. I, too, used to be one of those girls. I would do the quizzes, find out if he was hot... Submitted 2 years 197 days ago.

Dangerous to Text and Drive? It Could be Worse! - - Ken McCreless
Greetings Fellow Travelers ... I just never know when I'll get an idea for an article, or, when an article will come to me. Such was the case tonight. I was at work. I had a few minutes to kill so I stood at the nurses station and was playing Galaga on my phone, simply playing and in my... Submitted 2 years 265 days ago.

History of the High Five - - Dan Bimrose
The high five is way past trend status. It is a part of our culture. While our youth, and certain Presidential candidates "pound" it, this may still be just a trend. The high five is forever. I think it should stay forever. There are a few reasons why I like the high five and unfortunately for... Submitted 3 years 57 days ago.

Falling for Mirages - - Jennifer Cuddy
The age of globalisation has its pros and cons. We are now able to share ideas and engage in instant communication with others across the globe. This open forum has unlimited power to influence our ideologies, and has created an all inclusive online community without geographical borders. This... Submitted 3 years 104 days ago.

History for sale? Jack Ruby's log cabin for $15k; Lee Harvey Oswald's killer was investor - J. Louise Larson
There was a little a bit of Dallas history for sale on the Internet. For $15,000 and the price of hauling it off in 2006, you could buy what might just have been the last remaining piece of a failed investment from the long-closed portfolio of Jack Ruby, the nightclub owner who gunned down... Submitted 3 years 362 days ago.

Plastic People - - Krista Aman-Widgren
When I was toddler I used to talk to mannequins. They looked real enough that I would walk right up to one and say “Hi man!” expecting an answer. When it did not give the proper response, I would stare at it and wait. My mom would tell me it was not a real person and she would have me... Submitted 102 days 17 hours ago.

The Chemical Gods of Rave - MKDS
There was nothing strange about the twenty-eight hundred capacity club that sat on the edge of the City Centre, not to the three thousand “Good to go Raver’s” who were standing in haste outside the main doors, whether it was in the rain, hail, snow or high winds – their... Submitted 115 days 19 hours ago.

Well The Pig Is Flying Over London Again And Millions Reminisce The Late 1960s Rock Bands - - elle kynzer
"Pink Floyd" still lives in the music they created, as The Pink Pig flies again over London. Only one of the many bands that influenced America's Pop Culture in that era. The move from "Elvis" to "The Beatles", "The Bee Gees", and "Pink Floyd" was a quick one, for the 1960s began quietly enough... Submitted 136 days 19 hours ago.

Eliza Kruger is the 17 Year Old Girl Mark Sanchez Hooked Up With - Gregory Lewis
NEW YORK, NY - Over the weekend we got our earful about Pittsburgh Steeler Ben Roethlisberger’s sexual habits unbecoming of a professional football player, at least that’s how the NFL portrays it. Roethlisberger was reported to have put his hand up a woman’s skirt in March... Submitted 1 year 1 day ago.

Lively Up Yourself Bob Marley’s Birthday Reggae Music Changed the World Praise be to Jah, RasTaFarI - Gregory Lewis
KINGSTON, JAMAICA - Today Bob Marley turns 66. Marley was born today, February 6, 1945. Marley died in Miami on May 11, 1981. But what is death? Is it that physical thing that happens to all of us eventually? Or is it living a life unremembered? Marley’s face is one of the most readily... Submitted 1 year 5 days ago.

The Babe and the Buds and a Bottle of Southern Comfort Hit Texas, and It's Still Mardi Gras - Christofer French
There I was in the middle of the night driving my guests. All of them asleep and I still looking in the rear view mirror. The humidity in the Beaumont, Texas area was doubly moist. “Even pencils sweat here.” I would say when I would visit relatives. I wiped my brow with one of the... Submitted 1 year 8 days ago.

Rock and Roll Mogul Mega Producer Don Kirshner Dies, Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert - Gregory Lewis
BOCA RATON, FL - Don Kirshner will be fondly remembered by the people of my generation. Kirshner died today, January 18, 2010, in Boca Raton, Florida, at age 76. He was best remembered for his “Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert” rock concerts of the 1970s, and I guess that would have... Submitted 1 year 23 days ago.

Elijah Blue Allman, Son of Cher and Gregg Allman Explores Art and Individuality - Gregory Lewis
MALIBU, CA - One of the wildest rock concerts I had ever been to was the Allman Brothers concert at the Lenox Music Center in the late 1970s. Sorry I can’t remember the specific year, but I remember the concert. The fans were so wild, the Lenox Board of Selectmen vowed never to hold another... Submitted 1 year 25 days ago.

Target and Starbucks Logos are in the News: Target and Starbucks Drop Text - Gregory Lewis
SEATTLE, WA - In the past few days two iconic corporations, Starbucks and Target (if I were to keep them in alphabetical order) have seen their logos make the news. First I should note the superficial similarities of their logos. Both are circles within circles. Target’s logo, as we are... Submitted 1 year 35 days ago.

Starbucks Changes Its Logo: The Words Starbucks and Coffee Are No More - Gregory Lewis
EVERY MAJOR INTERSECTION - Everybody’s talking about Starbuck’s new logo. What is this new logo, and how does it compare with their old logo? One distinction is that the name “Starbucks” is no longer part of the logo, along with the word “Coffee.” I... Submitted 1 year 36 days ago.

Who Will Be Person of the Year? - Gregory Lewis
GLOBE Another award institution nearly prestigious as the Nobel Peace Prize is Time Magazine's Person of the Year. Not so much an award as it is the epitome of social significance on the world stage, whoever becomes Person of the Year has their portrait printed on the cover of Time Magazine's... Submitted 1 year 65 days ago.

Facebook's Hide Feature - How to Hide Farmville and Posts You Do Not Want On Your Wall - Lorrie Davids
If you have a Facebook page, every now and then something will show up on your wall that you really don't want there, whether it is someone trying to acquire or give away something on Farmville or Uncle Jake's four letter word rants. You certainly don't want to "unfriend" that person or relative... Submitted 1 year 99 days ago.

Conspiracy Theories and Falling Down The Rabbit Hole - - Grace O'Malley
Any time you get so interested in something you cannot stop, that is falling down the rabbit hole. It happens to all of us now and then. This is my story of falling down the rabbit hole and my quest to get back out. Not long ago I was happily tripping down the road of life, unaware of a... Submitted 1 year 165 days ago.