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Today's editorial is to simply say, chill out. I'm sure you heard back in December about Muntadhar al-Zaidi [http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/12/14/bush.iraq/index.html] (I keep finding a discrepancy of whether its Zaidi or Zeidi), a journalist that threw his shoes at Bush during his farewell press conference. The gesture is a commonly known insult in Muslim culture: though offensive - nothing considered to be any sort of attack. Muntadhar was taken into custody, and most likely tortured.… Continue

another accidentally lengthy blog to accompany my editorial (http://users.marshall.edu/~falquero/rant21.html). yay fulfilling my chosen comic title…



Today’s editorial is from THIS (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/04/business/04dead.html?pagewanted=2&_r=2&partner=rss) NY Times article. The skinny of it is that debt collectors from credit card companies and for loans from banks and the like are calling the immediate families of the recently deceased looking for someone to pay… Continue

To Whom it may Concern,



In regards to the opinions voiced in USA Today's Life cover-article published on Wednesday, 2/18/09 titled “Federally funded ad campaign holds up value of marriage” (http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-02-17-marriage-campaign_N.htm) :







So, over the next 4 years, a $5 million dollar media campaign will be executed by the government to promote marriage; purportedly to start what is claimed to be a 'needed conversation about marriage'… Continue