Really. It’s about time. Blackwater Worldwide, the U.S. based mercenaries of death security contractor has been dealt a well-deserved blow when Iraq barred them from providing protection to U.S. diplomats due to using excessive force. This is in reference to the killing of 17 innocent Iraqi civilians in 2007, among other instances. In 2006, a [...]

Lake Superior State University’s 2009 list of banished words:

green – This isn’t going away any time soon.
carbon footprint or carbon offsetting – Not as common as “green,” but we haven’t seen the last of it.
maverick – I’m so glad, for many reasons, we won’t be hearing this much anymore…
first dude – This is worse than [...]

While we’ve known much of the truth about how the American public was lied to in order for the Bush Administration to sell the war and the atrocities associated to that war, there has not been true confirmation by the President or Vice President on this issue. Until now.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWpQKCgAEP8[/youtube]
Not only does Vice President Dick Cheney [...]

To no suprise to most of us, Barack Obama has been named Time’s Person of the Year. Unlike some others *ahem* Bush *ahem* Obama is deserving of this title for the many positive things he has brought to the table and inspired in many of us. At the time of this post well over 70% [...]

This is pretty disturbing news, but may provide solace for the family if the search can finally be concluded. It’s hard to say whether it would be better for a kidnap victim, if she was one, to suffer, or if the suffering were to end. I hoped that she would be found alive and a [...]

Oh, the irony! The blatantly egomaniacal irony!
Prince (or the “artist formerly known as…”) is a Jehovah’s Witness and is very religious. It’s come out that he is also very anti-gay. The guy, who looks like a woman, sounds like a woman, has a guitar shaped like a phallus and has, throughout his career, been …oh, [...]