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My Letter To Lady Gaga: She Is Changing The World One Sequin At A Time Through New Foundation - Fran Larson
Lady Gaga, if you are reading this (yeah, right), I am your biggest fan. Maybe I am also your oldest fan. I am not so young anymore. Let me explain why I am your biggest fan. Through your music and the way you dress and present yourself has taught me, an old lady that unique appearances are... Submitted 66 days 21 hours ago.

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 206 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 1 year 97 days 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 117 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 120 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 299 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 300 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 329 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 302 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 3 years 4 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 161 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 208 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 4 years 101 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 206 days 20 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 219 days 23 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 240 days 22 hours 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 112 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 203 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 269 days ago.

Is Social Networking A New Religion or Cult - - Grace O'Malley
I would not blaspheme the canons of organized faith, not purposely at any rate. Please forgive me if what I say offends. It has come to my attention lately that something has been going on in our society that has begun to usurp our lives. Religion : a specific fundamental set of beliefs and... Submitted 1 year 269 days ago.

Pop Culture - Culture in Everyday Life - - Abhy Medkul
"What the mass media offer is not the popular art but entertainment, which is to be consumed, like food, forgotten and to be replaced by a new dish." WH Auden , The Dyer's Hand: The Poet and The City Not everybody has Auden's discernment and that is why we have the society in its... Submitted 1 year 362 days ago.

The End of the End of the World Predictions When will it Come? From 2012 to the Great Disappointment - - Connor Davidson
Since almost the beginning of time people have speculated on the end. Almost every world faith has some form of Armageddon on the way. Many people over the ages have became pounds in pocket pessimists - there is a lot of money in wacky doom predictions. The latest craze that has taken fashion... Submitted 2 years 98 days ago.

Haiti - A Young Woman’s Struggles With Culture Identity - Jackie's Story - - Rose-Marie Chaperon
I was born in Haiti, I came to the United States with my 3 other sisters, and we did not enter the country illegally. My father was a physician living in the US through him we became legal residents. When I entered the United States I was already a college graduate, a very young one I might say.... Submitted 2 years 102 days ago.

The Unpredictable Popularity of the Fortune Cookie - Gerry Charbonneau
Well, you had a relatively rough week. your immediate supervisor was unappreciative of your efforts and talent; your co workers were indifferent to your complaints; and your spouse told you she was extremely anxious to go out on the weekend to a fancy restaurant for some fine dining. What can... Submitted 2 years 248 days ago.

Your Picture May Appear in Facebook Ads - How to Opt Out of that Feature - Lorrie Davids
In a little known corner of your Facebook page, unless you have opted out, your picture can and may be used by Facebook to promote products you have not endorsed. An article by Josh Smith tells the story of Cheryl Smith's surprise when her picture appeared in an ad for "Hot Singles". Josh goes on... Submitted 2 years 308 days ago.