I apologize, but I believe I must take a leave of absence. I now have a small political talkshow at my school, which I hope to place on a youtube or metacafe later in the future. At the moment, I’m just having things pile up in terms of work, school, and my relationships, so I [...]
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Hey everybody, Mitch here. Just wanted to say that I will not be able to post anything today or tomorrow, as I promised my school’s drama club that I would work the sound board for their performance today and tomorrow. Posts will be back on schedule, every weekday, starting back up on Monday.
Have a great [...]
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After searching forever through this morass we in America call news, I stumble upon things that separate seem inconclusive, but when pieced together with a dozen other incidents with the same headline, make me tired. They make me question why I choose to do this, why I choose to try and wake people up. It [...]
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A man was tasered for asking why he was pulled over at a traffic stop September 15th. The full story is here and the video is below.
We had 150 taser-related ‘incidents’ last year and an incredible amount of unresolved cases. There was the tasering of a 6 year old, a [...]
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From Spring.org.uk – What psychological experiment could be so powerful that simply taking part might change your view of yourself and human nature? What experimental procedure could provoke some people to profuse sweating and trembling, leaving 10% extremely upset, while others broke into unexplained hysterical laughter? What finding could be so powerful that it sent [...]
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I, personally, believe it will be a Huxlian society, rather than that of Orwell, mostly because of the lack of violence associated with Orwell’s vision. With Huxley, we get to keep all our goodies; something the public as a whole is VERY concerned about, leading to a mindset of ‘I’m just living my life. Who [...]
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I edited the blog, so that you do not need aproval from me in order to post comments. I rarely look at the moderation tab, and I beleve my readers are intelligent enough to realize they don’t need to post a comment consisting entirely of curses. That being said, I still have the spam filter [...]
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Huge growth yesterday! I added this blog to StumbleUpon, and got 95 clicks, bringing that days total views to 117! Thats the most we have ever had, with one day totaling more views than every other day combined. I’m glad these views are getting out in the world, and I think alot of bloggers forget [...]
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Since I’m pretty bored, I would really like ANYONE to ask me a question. Political or technological questions/answers will be posted on my wordpress(http://anotheropinionatedyouth.wordpress.com/), and all questions will be answered on my myspace(http://blog.myspace.com/urbandale) blog as well.
If you don’t want to post a reply to this blog, you can send me a private message.
If you do [...]
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