December 2011
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The More Things Change, The More They Stay the...
Below is my final paper that I wrote for English class as a senior in high school titled “The Dangers of Media Sponsored Propaganda”. I was 18 when I wrote this. Being 26 now, I realize a lot of things about it are a little extreme at times but I still think it’s scary how far we’ve come in 8 years and how the paranoid parts of this don’t feel so paranoid...
November 2011
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Biting my Tongue
“He that uses his words loosely and unsteadily will either not be minded or not understood.” - John Locke — Good evening everyone. A few nights ago I was faced with a dilemma upon whether to act on an impulse which seems to be pervading my general ability to remain calm and civil as these politically strident days pass us by. Typically - you’ll find me making a hotly partisan comment...
October 2011
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Citizens Intervention Statement for the Enough is...
First of all I’d like to take a moment to openly recognize the individuals injured in Oakland, California and to extend a special message to the police officer who tossed a flash-bang grenade at the protesters trying to give aid to a fallen friend; or to any officer who feels he has the right to intimidate or harm the citizens he is supposed to protect: When you’re done being tough, take a look...
August 2011
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American Aristocracy and the Return to Prosperity
For too long I feel I have laid my passions dormant. I have often taken the quieter route in my activism solely out of my distaste for partisanship and the animosity politics generally brings to what would normally be friendly conversation. But after a long train of abuses upon myself, my friends, neighbors, loved ones and my country has derailed any hope for my peaceful continuance as a “click...
December 2010
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What the song "Shh" by Donora is Really About
If you listened close enough, the muffled sound of whispers and quiet breathing could be heard through the fractured walls of any apartment on this gloomy and despondent street. If you listened closer, specifically to door of apartment 23B, you would quickly learn that the whispers escaping through the birch were a little louder, and much different than the noises coming from anywhere else on the...
November 2010
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What the Song Jenny by Tommy Tutone is REALLY...
I can’t recall exactly what year it all happened. It was sometime during the year 2137 or 2138 and the season was most assuredly fall. I remember the details vividly as if they were a dream I just awoke from. I was walking to work, as I usually did, along the side of the Hudson Gorge near the Department of Global Agriculture here in New York City. It had been at least 20 years since the last...
September 2010
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A Background, a Convention, an Idea and a Movement
I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t interested in politics. I can clearly remember being a child and turning on C-SPAN to try and decipher what these old men in the government were talking about. Of course at 8, politics is figuring out how to get ungrounded or trying to negotiate a later bedtime, not fiscal policy. Needless to say, I never did quite figure out what was happening with those...
August 2010
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Thoughts on the New York City Mosque Controversy
It seems that in New York, an issue has erupted which has touched all of our ears, hearts and in most cases, our mouths (which it is soon to be the case with me). The ongoing situation in New York City in regard to the ‘construction’ of a mosque near the ruins of the World Trade Center towers has become an absolute circus for punditry, provocation and incendiary rhetoric. The stated argument is...
April 2010
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Notes on the Abolishment of Political...
“There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.” -John Adams
The above admonishment of John Adams in the infancy of our republic was scarcely enough to prevent the...
March 2010
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On the Historical Relevance of Benjamin Franklin...
Outside of a minority of Americans who put philandering at the top of their list of sins, most would agree that Benjamin Franklin was one of America’s first great success stories. A lot of different people have different reasons for admiring Ben Franklin. Some admire him because of his example of entrepreneurship and dedication to hard work. Others admire him for his system of virtues and the...
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On Home.
Over the past five years I have traveled frequently between my hometown of Toledo and my new home in Pittsburgh. During this time I believe that I have become an expert on what the true meaning of home is.
While clichés would have you believe that home is simply where your heart is, I contest that it is so much more than words could ever possibly describe. Attempt as I might to define it, home...
February 2010
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On Tumblr.
As typical as my skepticism often runs regarding trendy web applications, I have to admit, and humbly report that, Tumblr, for now, has turned me from a once hardened and very much loathing state regarding these kinds of hipsteresque blogging platforms into a true believer in the sheer simplicity and usefulness of its service.
Though I plan on using this for mostly private enterprises, I...