Two articles that raised my brow...

Target targets Salvation Army - As long as I know, Salvation Army has always been outside Target during the holy-days, and messing with tradition like that just ticks my face right off.

Catalogue for Philanthropy in the United States - I find it amusing that "Red" states, which are considered more rural and poor, give more of a percentage than "Blue" states, which are considered higher-class, do when it comes to charity and philanthropy.

-- M

Peterson: Death!

Scott Peterson has been recommended by the Jury to receive the Death Penalty. Let the debate on the ultimate conservative quandary begin.

Need a Special Christmas Gift?

Ok... Generally I wouldn't do something like this. But this one got to me. If you need a special gift... for someone, or just in general want to do something kind... read this story and donate to the fund at the bottom... Im sure they even need kind words and prayers. ::Click for Special Story::

Parents Need a license.

Alright, normally I would let our litigious society sue themselves into the ground, but this story did me in:Wal-Mart Suit. The problem isn't so much that some family is looking to make a quick buck, but that they in fact think they have been wronged and believe they are "doing the right thing" and are "responsible parents." Parents, REALLY should be required to get licensed to have kids, simply so we can strip them of their license and give their children to deserving people...
The story here is simple. Parents bought a CD and their 13yr old daughter played it and heard a bad word. To them it is worth $75,000. Let me repeat, their daughter heard a bad word on a cd, they want a down payment on a house.

My professor swore, do I get a job in the Whitehouse? WHO are these people and why do all the idiots get to make money from suing companies?
Lets listen to the dad and see his mindset: "I don't want any other families to get this, expecting it to be clean. It needs to be removed from the shelves to prevent other children from hearing it," said plaintiff Trevin Skeens of Brownsville. (From yahoo.news)

Alright, so the parents bought the CD, didn't see the little sticker

Orange Revolution = Democracy.

The idea of Cold War and Motherland Russia seemed to be simply memories to some of us or simply historical writings in some textbook. Yet few of us would consider any remnants of the Cold War to be left over except for some buildings and symbols left scattered around central and eastern Europe.

Unfortunately this is not the case. The situation in the Ukraine has taken on a significance that far extends the limits of the one or two stories American journalist have given the situation. A peaceful Revolution, a democratic outcry, and a situation all to prevalent in newly democratic nations clashed last month, and the people demanded freedom, yet we continue instead, to receive a death count in Iraq, and stories of cabinet members fleeing the Bush Administration.

To read up on this situation two websites, both pro-Yuschenko and pro-revolution, are good at basic and somewhat inspirational accounts of the events. They also provide good links in English.

http://orangeukraine.squarespace.com/
http://www.orange-revolution.com/

Papers Stolen.

Last night, Dec. 6th, an entire Rack of papers were stolen from the UGL. In their place was a flyer that depicted George W. Bush, with pictures of lynching below him.

This is the third time, that we know of, that we have had papers stolen. The first time was last year, and we also received a nice little message on that one.

What cracks me up is that the Left, the opposition to our paper and our philosophy, is supposed to be the big champions of FREE SPEECH AND EXPRESSION. Yet, why then, is our opposition squelching us?

You can read more at: http://www.isi.org/cn/

First Post.

This is the First Post of the WR Blog.

The purpose of this BLOG will be to keep up on daily news, recent happenings, discuss items in the daily paper at Wayne, and a way to keep up to date on news.

We print monthly so sometimes it is difficult to stay "on top" of certain news items, and this is the perfect avenue for that.

Please email me at: jkoss@wayne.edu with any comments or questions. If you would like the monthly edition of the Wayne Review in PDF format, email me also for that.