Now that the government recognizes Global Warming (Thanks, Gore.), it’s officially here and it’s time for you to make a buck — no, megabucks off global warming. Call it Global Warming or Climate Change — doesn’t matter, it’s coming. What kind of new, unusual opportunities are out there for the little guy to cash in on? Here are a few suggestions:

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Killing Jobs, Killing the Economy — that’s what your old company is doing. Mergers, takeovers, buy-outs, cutting costs to be competitive. Where the savings, where the money made by our bosses is found in racking up the lowest score in the number of salaries that no longer need to be paid. Ignore their PR of good intentions for their customers; look below the surface and it’s job cuts that are the real reasons behind it all. Service and better products? No, now the number one best way to “make” money is to let go of most of your workers.

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Barack Obama may have made our generation’s “I have a dream” speech.

Barack Obama made a speech a couple of days ago that rocked the minds of those that truly understand our present societal problems. Those that have the perceptual abilities to see past the bullshit and petty distractions are gearing up for a new wave of public discussion. I strongly feel that Senator Obama is the leader, the inspiration this country has needed for decades.

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Before you’re out of money, before there’s holes in your socks, before your and your loved ones’ stomachs rumble on empty, you may want to set up a local and personal bartering web.

One can learn from functioning junkies. They will decide upon trading, say a computer game, for cash. What’s to be learned from them is that they have a circle or web of friends, close and even just-say-hello-to friends. This is their market, a closed market, where they can make their rounds. They’re always looking to add others to their personal marketing web. Making their rounds, they also gather leads on what items interest their friends. It works!

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“I AM A MAN.” A sign worn by those
that wanted equal treatment.

The lynching tree and the Christian cross. This may sound like an antagonistic pairing of symbols, but after listening to a very enlightening man named James Cone, it made me not only see the light in its relationship, but how to bridge the gap of a century’s old American sin.

This man with his oddly raspy, slightly “Cosby-ish” voice speaks nothing short of volumes, you can’t help but be drawn into his story. Now that I have been educated to this “terribly beautiful” relationship of the two most powerfully evil and godly symbols, it is now upon me to share this newly learned perspective with the rest of my “brothers”, white, and black.

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Don’t run, it’s not safe!

In one of Kilgore Trout’s comments, he talks about childhood and growing up. “Most of the best parts of childhood have the line ‘I can’t believe no one got serious hurt.’ Children need time to be children, they need to experience life on their own … When do they get to just do the stupid things that kids do simply because they’re kids?”

Then from Cerebral: “I knew what it was like to just be a kid and care about nothing. We did shit just to have fun with no one to tell us ‘you can’t do that because it’s not safe.’ ”

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If you feel like blogging has taken on a mind of its own, you should get to know the new rage in social application software. It’s an internet tool called Twitter that let’s you post brief updates about your everyday thoughts and activities. They are posted by the minute to the Web via browser, cell phone, or IM. It’s blogging taken to a new extreme level. Twitter’s constant-contact medium allows friends or just anyone to know where you are and what you are doing minute to minute. Why has this new medium become the rage?

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Statue of Madonna

With new books appearing on the bestseller lists lately that have titles such as The End of Faith, The God Delusion, Letter to a Christian Nation and God Is Not Great, it is apparent that secular thought is beginning to raise its head. And, people are noticing. From their book buying practices, it seems that the mainstream may be showing signs that perhaps they are becoming fed up with the “in your face” religion from the far-right. However, with Evangelicals becoming more politicized, especially in the current Bush administration, the religious right is making their mark. Even the left is beginning to adopt a religious tone such as Edwards talking about “the hand of God”, Obama preaching forgiveness and Clinton pushing prayer. So, where do Americans really stand on religion?

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Snipped from The Observer Magazine.

With AIDS being one of the most feared diseases of the world, I am always amazed at the few people who are willing to have unprotected sex with someone who is knowingly infected. And yes, I have actually known someone to do this, and the weirdest thing about it, they are still uninfected. So what is it about these certain rare few who can come into contact with this highly contagious pandemic and not get affected by this deadly virus?

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Don’t yawn, whatever you do!

Did you yawn just looking at this picture? Why are such common everyday actions so misunderstood and mysterious to us?

Let’s start with this very common action of yawning. The original hypothesis of yawning was when the body had a build up of carbon dioxide and lack of oxygen, the brain stem would activate the yawn reflex to help normalize CO2 and O2 within the blood. This hypothesis is now deemed incorrect after a study was done by Robert R. Provine. Every explanation as to not only why we yawn, but why it seems so irresistibly contagious has been inaccurate or debunked. In lieu of these old inaccurate explanations, the scientific community has been a twitter with the latest discovery of very special cells called mirror neurons within the last decade.

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