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Facebook A Foot-Soldier In The War On Christmas

Facebook now groups posts according to if the users talk about a similar subject. Lately the discussion of Christmas has been prevalent, and Facebook has been presenting groups of comments under the subheading “So-and-so and 12 others commented about Christmas.” But one thing I found interesting. I read a comment from someone that did not [...]

Begun, The Social Networking Wars Have

After the Site-Flight from Myspace to Facebook years ago and the rise of Twitter, the world of social networking has been a two dog show. Facebook has grown to such a behemoth that companies have now eschewed placing their own websites at the end of their commercials and now just refer to their Facebook pages. [...]

What Mayor Alvin Brown Means For Jacksonville And Florida

On Tuesday the race for Jacksonville’s next mayor was supposed to come to a predictable close. The result was anything but predictable, and Alvin Brown and Mike Hogan took their race into overtime the next day. The closest race in Jacksonville history ended Wednesday night with Democrat Alvin Brown becoming the first African American mayor [...]

Is The Tea Party An Inadvertently Moderating Force?

If you heard a loud crash yesterday, that was the collective sound of thousands of tea cups dropping out of shocked Tea Party members hands as they saw their new sweetheart Scott Brown help break a Republican filibuster and allow the jobs bill to a final vote. Brown wasn’t even the only Republican vote in [...]

A Question On Health Care?

Just a question to go with the health care reform debate. Many people say that government reform would mean the Federal health care police would make health decisions for you. How is that different from now, where giant insurance companies make health care decisions for you?

TSE Geography Minute

Just a couple of facts and then a random question.  The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico has a population of 3.9 million.  The City of Washington D.C. has a population of 591,833.  The State of Wyoming has a population of 532,688.  Only one of these governments has voting power in the United States Congress.  Guess which [...]

Biggus Chat Room: Who Would Plato’s Ideal Running Back Be?

me: read this sentence Foster is the platonic ideal of a boom-and-bust running back, who breaks one or two highlight runs a game and then spends the rest of the time leaving his unfortunate quarterback in second-and-9 after second-and-9. “platonic ideal”? Biggus: It’s a little, um, pretentious for a football column. me: as Will just [...]

The Sunshine Empire Is Saving Itself

I’m not the only one to write this point, but does anyone find it amusing that the most conservative and abstinence only intensive parts of the country, have the highest teen pregnancy rates?

The Biggus Chat Room: Change, Bailouts, And 2012

Biggus: I just read your Obama post. I think you’re essentially telling people that the status quo is going to be change, just not ideal. me: kinda but not really it’s kind of a twist on only Nixon can go to China neophytes don’t change the system people who know the system change the system [...]

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