With that summary, I'm not watching the video. As for the circuses, I think that some really do care about their animals and aren't cruel. Most of them, though, are cruel to their animals, either deliberately or not. It's possible to train animals in a fair, kind way, show them to the public, and get the public awa...more

It is possible to cut down some trees and leave others. We don't need to clear cut like this. With what we know about koalas returning home, why don't we use different logging methods?

Given how pricy watermelon is in Japan, it does kind of make sense for someone over there with too much money to buy. Gotta keep the expensive fruit safe and cold, after all. But I really don't think we need something like this in America.

Reality is for people who can't handle fantasy.

Hey, it happens. I remember watching the 9/11 coverage with a local CBS station streaming in the national news and the national coverage showing a newly acquired video of the South Tower collapsing. The person filming it said something I'm sure a lot of people were thinking, but still had NO business being on broadcast...more

My university had pay-to-print setups installed about halfway through my time in college, with the payments tied to the student IDs. We were given a set number of pages per semester, I can't remember how many but it was reasonable, and after that it was 10 cents per page. I think that'd work better than posting signs a...more

I hope Kobe can come back. That said, this isn't a very fair presentation of how he's responding. His full post included an admission that he was venting, and it felt good to vent. He also said it was 3:30 in the morning and his injury was rather painful at that time. How would ANYone respond to that? Kobe's seeing ...more

Oh, I hope this works out! I've lost a family member to meth, and if this had been around a few years back, she may still be with us. Here's hoping that no more families have to go through that kind of loss.

Having read the full article, I think it's a sweet story. He didn't want a somber funeral, so that's what he didn't get. To each their own, and it sounds like this is something Mr. Scott would have enjoyed.