Nihil est verum

             Let's start off with something that has slipped away as completely accepted in this day and age due to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on it just to show the colossal impact on society such decisions make.  Brown V. Board of Education (1954)~ Segregation of races in schools is inherently unequal and in violation of equal protection clause of the 14th amendment . Can any of my fellow Americans even imagine what this day and age would be like without this court case? When just 58 years before Plessy V. Ferguson (1896)  had said segregation is allowed when accommodations were separate as well as equal. White, let's call them supremacists, found a way around this "accommodations must be equal" clause of the ruling, by passing off second-hand textbooks and teachers with lower pass rates on to schools specifically geared toward teaching Black Americans.                Now, how about som...

$1.6052 billion dollars spent on the 2012 presidential campaign just for an Incumbent to return, this is a great waste of money and absolutely screams to the USA that there needs to be some sort of campaign reform, super pacs and celebrities are now given more access to the candidates we the people elect than ever before just because of the enormous sums of money these groups can generate for a presidential candidate. This wasn't the peoples election, it was the 10%s election, and while I am pleased with the result of the campaign, money shouldn't determine the winner, and although I don't believe it did, some data from The New York Times gives some credence to the idea that the more money you have, the more likely you will win. Barack Obama raised $934 million and spent $852.9 million, in contrast Romney raised $881.8 million and *only* spent $752.3 million. Most peoples first question would be... where did the rest of that money go? The answer to that is simple, in Romne...

With there being so many religions in the world ( the exact number unknown due to new religions being created weekly and 21 major religions according to Howmanyarethere.net . Most of us might lose some faith with all of this spritual confusion around us everyday. Who is to say losing faith is wrong though? what if every religion humanity as thought to create is wrong, and we all sit in hell (or some equivalent) talking about how we were all wrong. Religion does serve the purpose of giving life meaning because in most cases without the introduction of religion, people will ask "why are we here?" and be greeted by a resounding silence. Religion is the answer to that silence, but is that not an arrogance born of ignorance? To believe that we could assess what our creator is without any information other than written works by other human beings, the same imperfect creatures you and I are? You or others around you take these works to heart, but within these works it tells you not...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1BQPV-iCkU&feature=related This video shows our possible future as we are becoming more dependent on technology. It starts now with Nomophobia which is a fear of being without your mobile phone.  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2141169/The-biggest-phobia-world-Nomophobia--fear-mobile--affects-66-cent-us.html  <-- This link suggests that 66% of everyone who has access to a mobile phone suffers from this phobia , making it the one of , if not the biggest phobia in the world ( which is why whenever I can , I turn my phone off and leave it in a separate room). The specific fears of this phobia are included in the link but I will list a few here : 1. Losing reception. 2. Running out of battery. 3. Losing sight of the phone itself ( most people just believe this part is related to the increasing costs of mobile devices, which is a valid argument in my opinion). The fact that it exists though is just sad for our current generati...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX7fqaxMfJQ&feature=g-hist The link to the video above ( please bare with it being a music video ) shows some real life situations that economics plays a major factor in. Like how expensive movie theater popcorn is, or how Walmart can keep lowering their prices no matter how bad the economic climate seems. This post in particular means a lot to me since I plan on being an econ major ( well international economic affairs major but close enough ) and I have had trouble trying to explain to so many of my friends why they should care about economics. Most of them would say things like "well it's just not stupid to you because you understand it, if you were me you would think it is stupid too." , even if I explain that it effects their everyday life I get the same response. So hopefully this post will persuade one or two who read it and cement the importance of economics to anyone else who reads it. Let's start off with girls who comp...