by Ken JP Stuczynski | Oct 6, 2011 | Society & Culture
I got the following email from someoneback in 2007: An unemployed man is desperate to support his family of a wife and three kids. He applies for a janitor’s job at a large firm and easily passes an aptitude test. The human resources manager tells him,...
by Luis Clemente | Jan 17, 2015 | Politics & Law
{Published on Dateline: Latin America, January 6, 2015} I am not a listener or a visitor of “Democracy Now!,” but I know about the views of co-host Amy Goodman, having had the chance of reading some of her columns on the Athens News during a past life of mine in...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Aug 15, 2010 | Psychology
{Suggestion made for Urban Dictionary, January 2008} brainwashed (adj.; n. brainwashing) Coerced or manipulated by any number of social, intellectual, and psycho-emotional methods, to do or accept things you wouldn’t have otherwise. It is often an extension of...
by Barry Fagin | Dec 20, 2010 | Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law, Science & Pseudoscience
{2005} Throughout history, brave men and women have pushed the frontiers of knowledge were others have said they should not go. Like Prometheus, they offer precious gifts to mankind, and often chained to a rock further trouble. Time will tell if Bill Frist is such a...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Feb 7, 2014 | Business & Economics, Politics & Law
Here it comes again. Another battle to raise or not raise the debt ceiling for the United States. During recent debates, Democrats will once again accuse Republicans of holding the economy hostage by not giving in to every demand. Republicans insist it is merely...