Rants

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Ignorant Hatred Negates Your Right to Privacy

Here’s a thought- or statement open for debate: Why is it common to blot out the names of those who post idiotic, hateful, or derogatory comments online before making their disdainful words a screen-captured meme? Social media, by definition, is a public forum and if they’re going to say...

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Priorities

This is a fairly accurate assessment of our national consciousness and our culture’s attitude toward the events that occur beyond our own borders.

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Holiday Cheer or Holiday Greed?

Forming large mobs and trampling/maiming people in the name of consumer greed under the guise of “Christmas cheer” one day a year is acceptable behaviour and makes you a good American; but forming small groups to peaceably protest social injustices any day of the year makes you unpatriotic, you’re...

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An Election Day Dilemma

I’m a little miffed. The mayor of Sterling Heights ran for reelection uncontested, which means that even with a single vote, he wins. I don’t care for him and believe it’s time for change. At the polling station I was informed that “no valid write-in candidates exist” and that...

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Hash tags

For a while now I’ve read rants, seen graphics on Facebook, and  shared personal conversations with people complaining about the use of the hash symbol (#) on the internet. To be honest, I think some of the complaints are well warranted- the use of it, like everything else in...

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Columbus: Explorer, murderer, thief, and slavetrader

I’ve been asked before why I, being of Italian descent, don’t celebrate Columbus Day. The answer to why the very idea of this day disgusts me is very simple and explained perfectly in the masterful words of Kurt Vonnegut: “As children we were taught to memorize this year ...

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You are not ghost hunters. You are criminals.

I am livid and pissed off beyond words right now. A very old and mostly abandoned, but beautiful, cemetery in Bruce Township, Michigan, that I have visited many, many times has been completely destroyed by reckless, disrespectful, asinine, heartless fucktards. The criminals toppled over headstones and threw the famous...

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Across the Great Divide: Stump the Ghost Guy

I wouldn’t say that I have a unique point of view among paranormal researchers, but it is a rather rare one. Most people exist huddled at opposite extremes; that is, they either have a passionate belief in paranormal phenomena, convinced by the tiniest shreds of evidence, or they think...

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