Archive for August, 2004

Challenged and Banned Books

Sat Aug 28 2004

The ALA recently published the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000. According to website, Harry Potter series is in the number 2nd place in the most frequently challenged books of 2003 for its focus on wizardry and magic. I agree that books like Killing Mr. Griffin / Heather Has Two Mommies are not appropriate […]

Capital Punishment - the rarest of rare case

Sat Aug 14 2004

India executed a criminal for the first time in 13 years. Dhananjoy Chatterjee, convicted 14 years ago of raping and murdering a 14 years old teenage school girl in 1990. Chatterjee was convicted of raping and suffocating Hetal Parekh, who lived in a Calcutta apartment building where he worked as a security guard. He was […]

Command Your President

Sun Aug 8 2004

The Subservient President is a parody of Burger King’s Subservient Chicken advertising campaign with a political twist. Instead of a guy in a chicken suit who will hop or do push-ups on command. The Subservient President reminds us that the current guy in the president suit will do whatever the oil industry or the gun […]

Gas Prices

Sun Aug 8 2004

As gas price reaches to $2.00 per gallon, Vice President Dick Cheney blames Democrates for high gasoline prices, and Saudi Arabia blames America’s tough environmental laws for high cost of gasoline, I start looking for cheaper gas in my area. I found 2 websites, GasPriceWatch.com and DetroitGasPrice.com, where individual consumers like you and me can […]