Category Archives: Culture

Meet the Millionaires and Billionaires who are suddenly buying tons of land in Africa

Posted on November 6, 2015 by a1skeptic

I came across in an article recently through one of my Facebook friends entitled “Meet the Millionaires and Billionaires who are suddenly buying tons of land in Africa.” That article was a bit disturbing, and was, in fact, about how … Continue reading →

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What we found in Niagara and Toronto

Posted on November 4, 2015 by a1skeptic

My special friend and I – she knows who she is – recently took a trip to Niagara Falls and Toronto. I had never been to either, and although she had been there, it had been a long, long time … Continue reading →

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Let’s move New England to Atlantic Standard Time

Posted on November 2, 2015 by a1skeptic

There have been some suggestions made recently that we shouldn’t be turning the clocks back anymore. Here where I live, in Massachusetts, at the far eastern end of Eastern Standard Time, we spend much more time in “daylight savings time” … Continue reading →

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This is why identifying as a witch may not be such a good thing

Posted on October 31, 2015 by a1skeptic

Just in time for Halloween we have the story of a courtroom drama in Salem, Massachusetts (of all places) involving a witch and a warlock. It turns out that a 75-year-old witch priestess and self-identified psychic, Lori Bruno-Sforza, who also … Continue reading →

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Little Things can tell you a lot about Someone.

Posted on October 27, 2015 by a1skeptic

Sometimes it’s the little things that matter, and BDC Wire had a nice story this morning on how Chelsea Clinton stopped to help out a young mother at the airport. It seems that Chelsea was on her way to Cambridge … Continue reading →

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We officially have no clue what we’re doing in Afghanistan and the Middle East.

Posted on October 20, 2015 by a1skeptic

By now it should be official: we have no fucking clue what we’re doing in Afghanistan and the Middle East. This became clear last week when Obama announced that we’re going to keep troops in Afghanistan through 2017, or the … Continue reading →

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Surprise! The Earth has trillions more trees than we thought.

Posted on October 11, 2015 by a1skeptic

Here’s a mostly good news story: it turns out that the Earth has trillions more trees than we thought. Research published in the journal “Nature” drew on global satellite imagery and more than 400,000 sample counts from forests around the … Continue reading →

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Here’s something you don’t have too often: a genuine feel-good story about a Football Player

Posted on October 10, 2015 by a1skeptic

I don’t really follow the NFL, except casually, and I don’t watch much football except the occasional Patriots game. But today I came across a nice story involving Warrick Dunn. Honestly, I don’t really even know who Warrick Dunn is. … Continue reading →

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Can’t Do Non-Violent Communication when it come to today’s conservatives.

Posted on October 9, 2015 by a1skeptic

There is a thing called non-violent communication, a technique developed by Marshall Rosenberg, and there is now even a Center for Nonviolent Communication, and it is really a nice set of techniques for how to communicate with someone in a … Continue reading →

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Hillary Clinton has been living in a bubble (just like Britney Spears)

Posted on October 6, 2015 by a1skeptic

As the old saying goes: “just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean that they’re not out to get you.” That seems to be the epitath-in-waiting for the Clintons. Continue reading →

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