July 5, 2006
Skid Row Gets A New Address
Seattle - Around the corner from a ubiquitous Starbucks, is 1811 Eastlake, a government-financed living facility for “chronic public inebriates”, and the first of it’s kind in the United States. As part of a experimental program, the facility houses the 75 most costly chronically homeless alcoholics.
The catch is…wait there is no catch. These “chronic public [...]
July 4, 2006
Are Lobotomies For Pedophiles Barbaric?
This morning, a local news show did a piece about a new kind of amusement park designed to protect our children from child sexual predators and pedophiles. Each member of a family is given a GPS (global positioning system) bracelet unique to each family. If a child gets lost, the park can immediately locate [...]
Comments (4) Filed under: Vox Populi — Akira Ohiso @ 7:47 amJune 29, 2006
Israeli Military Rescue Operations Should Be Measured and Precise
Israel has widened its military operations beyond Gaza into Syria in an effort to rescue 19-year old Corporal Galid Shalit. Israeli military officials believe that Syrian President Bashar Assad is supporting radical terrorists group in Gaza and the abduction was planned by the a Damascus-based Hamas leader. The Scotsman reports:
The military action spread early yesterday to [...]
June 27, 2006
Hillary Will Win the Democratic Nomination, But She Will Lose
Hillary Clinton’s political migration to the center is what slick Willy did in 1992 to win the White House. Can Hillary do the same? While she leads in democratic polls over her nearest rival Al Gore for the democratic nomination, many democrats also believe she cannot win the White House. Many democrats have been angrily [...]
Comments (3) Filed under: Vox Populi — Akira Ohiso @ 7:30 pmJune 26, 2006
Is It Time to Take Out North Korea?
This week former Defense Secretary William J. Perry and his nuclear aide, Ashton Carter, posed a rhetorical question: “Should the United States allow a country openly hostile to it and armed with nuclear weapons to perfect an intercontinental ballistic missle capable of delivering nuclear weapons to U.S. soil?” Their answer: “We think not.”
This is a [...]
June 25, 2006
Chuck Taylor Sells Out
Converse’s Chuck Taylor All-Star canvas basketball sneaker, which started as a standard basketball shoe almost 75 years ago and then became the anti-establishment icon of punk rockers, skateboard kids, and, even, preppy Kennedyian boarding school rebels, is going Madison Avenue.
For under forty bucks, generations of teens and college kids have been making anti-establishment statements with [...]
June 22, 2006
US Soccer Sucks: Should We Care?
The much-hyped US National soccer team did not win one game in their over-rated run at the 2006 World Cup. In fact, they only registered one point to finish last in their group. Even with their poor showing, they only needed to defeat Ghana to advance (because Italy defeated the Czech Republic) to the next [...]
Comments (6) Filed under: Vox Populi — Akira Ohiso @ 4:09 pmJune 21, 2006
McDonald’s Booming in Anti-American Countries Tells A lot About America
China is becoming a car-obsessed nation. Cars are a symbol of freedom, individuality, and wealth. Like the United States of the fifties, China is building infrastructure to accommodate a new way of life for a future China. Highways and new suburban towns are expanding outside the big cities, and the diminishing peasant class will soon [...]
Comments (0) Filed under: Vox Populi — Akira Ohiso @ 7:03 pmJune 20, 2006
Hip Hop Baggy Pants A Trip: Get A Belt!
Look when I was an impressionable young man, I thought my heavy metal fashion sense was the coolest thing on the planet and older men in khaki pants and button shirts were stodgy old men. Long hair, pierced protuberances, and spandex were all the rage for me…and my angry parents. Boy, was I wrong. I [...]
Comments (0) Filed under: Vox Populi — Akira Ohiso @ 8:13 pmJune 19, 2006
Time To Start A North Korean Revolution
During a week when North and South Korea will be holding pro-unification events to mark the six year anniversary of the inter-Korea conference, which was the first time since the Korean War from 1950-1953, South Korea is demonstrating the spoils of democracy and the disparity of the two nations. Today, the South Korean soccer team [...]
Comments (0) Filed under: Vox Populi — Akira Ohiso @ 9:10 pm