In a small Indiana town, a combination of poverty and lack of social services has had heartbreaking consequences. In Austin, Indiana, there have been 190 people diagnosed with HIV.
Austin used to be better off than...
Math isn't everyone's best subject, and statistics can be even harder to compute. However, the head of Iowa's Right to Life organization apparently cannot even comprehend the most elementary of calculations. Either that, or she...
Some days, I can't understand the lingo of today's youth, nor why they use it. However, the phrase, "I can't even" finally made sense to me today when I read the following story. Apparently, the...
This poor girl in Pennsylvania got kicked out of her own prom for her wardrobe choice. Was she wearing something revealing? Was she wearing something with a short skirt? Nope!
This girl, Aniya Wolf, got kicked...
We learned this week that Harriet Tubman will be memorialized on the $20 bill. The U.S. Treasury decided this after an online vote. Naturally, people took to Twitter to vent about it. It has been met...
Health and fitness trackers have basically become a way of life for many. People track what they eat, how many steps they take, how long they sleep, how good their sleep was, and the list...
Former Democratic presidential candidate--now CNN political commentator--Andrew Yang had a unique signature issue among the other presidential contenders with whom he shared the stage.
He wanted to give every American $1,000 from what he called the "Freedom Dividend."
But...
A week or so ago, a young football player named Colin Kaepernick chose to sit down during the National Anthem. Good Lord!
There has been a huge pushback and outcry from the overly righteous world of...
Oxygen levels in the Stingray Bay exhibit at Brookfield Zoo dropped inexplicably on Friday. The alarm system? sounded, alerting staff, and emergency measures were taken to restart the pumps within 20 minutes of the alarm....
Of all the recent names popularized by the Trump campaign, Steve Bannon is easily the most controversial. An outspoken executive at Breitbart, a publication that often publishes fake stories to win the appeal of racist...
Gaslighting is a common tactic used to manipulate and control a person or group. The gaslighter will attempt to control the victim’s sense of reality by manipulating their mind with aggressive tactics. The aggressor’s tactics are...
The strip club remains a staple of American culture. It's an expected stop for every bachelor party, and almost everyone over the age of 21 will visit a strip club at some point.
While strip clubs...
A-list superheroes, or at least the A-list stars who play them in the Justice League, gathered for a video to support a Standing Rock Sioux Tribe protest and stop construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Who needs...
A news story, which seemed to be from the New York Times, was circulating on Monday, the day before the Super Tuesday primaries. The story claimed that Senator Elizabeth Warren endorsed Bernie Sanders’ campaign for...
It's no secret that the United States Of America has the highest prison population in the world. We build more prisons each year than most countries ever build. Our prisons are filled with mostly poor,...
Like so many other things, it's the "scandal" that isn't. A recent WikiLeaks dump included emails from Huma Abedin, aide to Democratic presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton. Some of these emails included discussion of an invitation...
Homeless youth. . .
Homelessness rates in the United States continue to rise amidst a failing economic system that is slow to recover from the crash of 2008. Businesses are thriving, but middle and lower income...
Sean Squires heard the bad news that a local pet store, PetCulture, was shutting down this week. He went to the store and bought all of the dog and cat food they had left. He paid...
On Thursday, Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, delivered Harvard's commencement speech. Zuckerberg is pretty well known for his progressive views. However, it still may be surprising to some that he spoke so boldly in...
Admittedly, I don't work in an office with other employees. I work from my office at home. But I have spent years of my life in offices, including the soul-sucking cubicle farm.
No matter what office...
