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Fast Food, Junk Food (4/10)

December 6, 2008 – 5:52 pm | 16 Comments | 27 Read this
Fast Food, Junk Food (4/10)

Snacks, sodas, take-outs, pas­tries, desserts, appe­tiz­ers, food stalls, fast food… you would never go hun­gry in North Amer­ica pro­vided you have some spare change in your pocket.

Sports Nation (3/10)

November 29, 2008 – 10:11 pm | 14 Comments | 4 Read this
Sports Nation (3/10)

Fol­low­ers speak a weird lan­guage: home run, end zone, touch­down, pow­er­play, and mostly “scooooooore”. Their Gods? MLB (Major League Base­ball), NFL (National Foot­ball League), NBA (National Base­ball Asso­ci­a­tion) and NHL (National Hockey League).

Freedom Of Speech (2/10)

November 22, 2008 – 7:29 pm | 11 Comments | 41 Read this
Freedom Of Speech (2/10)

Some would love the West­boro Bap­tist Church to be sued for hate speeches, while some say (with­out sup­port­ing them) that groups like them may be the ulti­mate test for the First Amend­ment and free speech.

The Housing Bubble (1/10)

November 15, 2008 – 8:00 am | 16 Comments | 24 Read this
The Housing Bubble (1/10)

Own­ing a house. The true Amer­i­can dream.

North Amer­ica is a land of set­tlers, a place where every­thing is pos­si­ble, even buy­ing one’s lit­tle piece of heaven. Land and a house on it. Far from expen­sive Europe or over­crowded Asia. A lot of house­holds make it. Home sweet home.