Mohandas Gandhi is one of history’s greatest men. As the political and spiritual leader of India during the Indian independence movement he not only gained freedom for his own nation but also inspired non-violent civil rights movements around the world. As a practitioner of Ahimsa, the non-violent lifestyle that believes harming any living thing has […]

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I just read a crazy article about James Franco, the actor, artist, student, etc. Here is the “busy” part, I couldn’t believe his ridiculous academic ambitions while still working on both tv and movies: As soon as Franco finished at UCLA (graduating in just 2 years), he moved to New York and enrolled in four […]

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According to the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals: “The tattoo itself, the process of tattooing, and even the business of tattooing are not expressive conduct but purely expressive activity fully protected by the First Amendment.” Read more on needlesandsins.com

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Have you guys heard about this? A 10,000 car traffic jam that has lasted for a dozen days and at one point stretched bumper-to-bumper for over 70 miles! Now that is a traffic jam! This is considered the world’s longest traffic jam ever, and the third such traffic backup on the Beijing-Xinjiang highway this month. […]

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Huffington Post puts together a series of stories where social media has lead to arrests and firings: Arrested Over Twitter: 8 Tweets That Got People SNAGGED Twitterers and non-Twitterers alike often grumble that the many tweets are fluffy nonsense–posts about what we ate for breakfast, complaints about the weather, and other… Arrested Over Facebook: 19 […]

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I work hard. I get up in the morning and go to my office and work all day. Then after dinner and time with the family I go back to work until the wee hours of the morning before I crash and do it all over again the next day. I have a full-time job, […]

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Angie Cromar’s doctors were shocked when her first ultrasound revealed two babies at slightly different stages of development. “[He said] I’m five weeks and four days in one, and six weeks and one day in the other,” Cromar said. Cromar, 34, knew she was born with a rare condition called didelphys, meaning she had two […]

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Today was like a fantasy for Pacers fans around the world (yes, they do actually have fans all over the world). Today, the Pacers made a dream trade and landed a young, talented point guard in Darren Collison. Collison averaged 12.4 points and 5.7 assists as a rookie last season with the Hornets, including 18.8 […]

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Kudos to Bill Gates and Warren Buffet for not only pledging to give away the majority of their combined $90 billion dollars in personal wealth, but also for encouraging 38 other ridiculously wealthy folks to publicly pledge to give away theirs as well. Click here to see the list, and you can click on each […]

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Is it me, or does it seem like everything is bad for you these days? Just yesterday I discovered that even store receipts are dangerous – as they have been found to contain alarming levels of BPA for some reason. You can read the full article here, but basically it just says that receipts from […]

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