If you’ve ever looked around on MySpace, seen how everyone is just so damn punk, so cool, and hip and has tons of hot, hip friends that all party in exotic and interesting places, and you’ve wondered to yourself, “How can I be that hip and punk?” Fear no longer! I’ve taken the time to explain the 6 easy steps you can use to create your MySpace alter ego that millions of trendy, analogous, hipsters have been using. It’s just as easy as going to the mall to buy your mass produced punk uniform at Hot Topic! Click on the link below for the steps!
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Ever wonder what constitutes different degrees of homicide, or what they are? I know have always been confused by the many different terms: manslaughter, murder one, capital murder, third degree murder, etc, etc. So, in the name of curiosity, guised in the cloak of investigative web blogging, I decided to find out.
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A personal and unorganized commentary on Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” and modern day Corporate America
I just finished reading Upton Sinclair’s book, The Jungle. One of the better books I have read this year, The Jungle is best known for inspiring creation of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug act. However, the true aim of Sinclair was to throw light on the failings of capitalism and to inspire a socialist revolution. And while reading the book and being appalled at the inhuman working and living conditions depicted, I couldn’t help see some similarities between 1900’s life in the meat packing warehouses and modern life in the stockades of corporate cubicles.
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