Aesop's FablesBy Aesop Translated by George Fyler Townsend The Wolf and the Lamb Wolf, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf's right to eat him. He thus addressed him: "Sirrah, last year you...
Kandi Burruss a cast member of The Real Housewives of Atlanta TV Show learned last night that her former fiance AJ Jewell was killed in a bar fight in a strip club in Atlanta. "Ashley “A.J.” Jewell, the fiance of Kandi Burruss, the newest cast member of “The Real Housewives of Atlanta”, was killed...
Before everyone had a cell phone and the capacity to record video on the fly, a police beat down was, by sheer chance, caught on tape in Los Angeles on March 3, 1991. Public fury about racism and police brutality erupted when a portion of the video showing several LAPD officers Tasering, kicking,...
Rooney Mara will be The Girl in the upcoming film “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.”The actress has been less popular, and has been cast as the namesake in the film, which will be the first work in the internationally successful thriller series by the late Stieg Larsson.The film will...
Political Correctness: the Oxford American Dictionary defines it as "the avoidance... of forms of expression or action that are perceived to exclude, marginalize, or insult groups of people." Okay, we can get behind that. But what does it actually mean in reality?
I've stayed in some pretty sketchy places in my time. In Vientiane, I stayed in the cheapest place the Lonely Planet listed, costing just $1 per night. It was basic, a bit sketch, but generally fine. I've stayed in falling apart hostels, weird backpackers, and gross hotels. But none of the places...
Riots display human beings acting at their worst. Usually the result of political or social turmoil, most riots rely on killing, raping, looting and widespread destruction to get their point across. After examining the tolls that riots take on society, we have to wonder whether this is an effective...
The 2009 US PGA Championship has started off today at the Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minnesota. All eyes are on top players like Tiger Woods, Mickelson, Singh and Harrington. Tiger is the hot favorite but the other champions along with the new players like David Toms could give him a...
For the past 56 years the Church of Scientology has blazed a path of headlines and mystery across the globe. Once existing only as the idea held by a single man, the Church has grown into a multinational, highly organized institution in record time. There is little doubt...
The term Yuppie is short of Young Urban Professional. A yuppie is usually a member of the middle class, and is aged between 20 to 30 years old. Yuppism is considered a 20th century cultural phenomenon where young, good-earning professionals enjoy living a sophisticated urban life, with limited or...
