Thoughts From The Middle of Nowhere

Category: rant

  • Murdering The Future

    <a href="http://in.today.reuters.com/news/NewsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-12-14T230956Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_India-280322-1.xml" >India has killed 10 mln girls in 20 years</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Ten million girls have been killed by their parents in India in the past 20 years, either before they were born or immediately after, a government minister said on Thursday, describing it as a "national crisis".<br />n<br />nA UNICEF report released this week…

  • Thoughts

  • The Answer is Drugs

    <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061019/ap_on_he_me/preschoolers_adhd" >Study: Some preschoolers can use Ritalin</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>The first long-term government study of preschoolers who take<br />nRitalin, the popular attention deficit disorder drug, warns of side effects but also found benefits in children with severe problems.<br />n<br />nThe drug isn't approved for use in children under age 6, and the researchers said those…

  • Sickness

    <a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CHILD_PORN_ARRESTS?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=US&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT" >Feds net 125 nationwide in kid-porn case</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A Bible camp counselor and a Boy Scout leader were among 125 people arrested nationwide in an Internet child pornography case in which subscribers purchased photos and videos of children engaged in sex acts with adults, federal authorities said Wednesday.<br />n<br />nThe case originated in…

  • Misconceptions

    <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/04/23/news/wyoming/60-guns.txt">Cattleman loses federal gun case</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A man from Nebraska's Panhandle can't have guns as tools of his cattle trade or to reflect his cowboy heritage or for any other reason, a federal jury has ruled.<br />n<br />nOn Friday the jury found that Rudolph "Butch" Stanko of Gordon broke a federal law that bars…

  • This is a Holiday?

    Last year I posted my annual rant about Valentines Day being a fake, made-up holiday and how stupid I thought it was. It was amazing the number of people that took this personally. I lost over 90% of my readers over over my rant and I am just finally getting back up to the numbers…

  • Over Reaching

    <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2006/01/20/build/nation/30-google-search.inc">Google, Bush administration clash over search requests</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Google Inc. is rebuffing the Bush administration's demand for a peek at what millions of people have been looking up on the Internet's leading search engine – a request that underscores the potential for online databases to become tools for government surveillance.<br />n<br />nMountain View-based Google…

  • Conflict

    I have this, let's say neighbor, who whenever he speaks I literally want to kill him. It has been a long time since I have been around someone who makes me feel this way. They act and speak like they are so superior to everybody around them that it just infuriates me. They look down…