Entertainment, Information & a General Sense of Well Being
“Now, hypothetically,” says my British professor as only a British professor can, “let us say that Kristina the American decides to go to missions in France. And Kristina the American, no, Kristina the Minnesotan, gets on a plane and goes…” It is only a scenario made up by one of my professors to illustrate something [...]
“Have you gotten your absentee ballot yet?” my dad asked me over skype. Oh yeah, I should do that, I thought to myself. I wasn’t sure how to request one, but my dad being the faithfully politically conscientious person that he is was only too happy to poke around the interwebs and get me in [...]
It’s quarter to 8pm in Singapore. The very last tints of twilight blue are subsiding into darkness on the western horizon, which just happens to be to the left of my third story window. Directly north a large thunderhead is putting on a silent light show. Brief electric illuminations demark the borders of the wall [...]
Last month I wrote regarding the American Influence that we sometimes don’t even realize we have. I pointed out “how ignorant we can often be of the immeasurable influence we have” and I asked “what will we do with that responsibility?”. This month I want to address a specific way an American will influence the [...]
The nightly news, well more accurately, the nightly, morning, daily, and incessant news, is a very deceptive thing, and the information age has made it possible for this deception to become an even more pervasive and insidious element in our society. Despite the talk about unbiased reporting and so on and so forth, the reporting [...]
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