Northern Ireland. I have been to Northern Ireland many times and it's always been a great experience. I have only been there for a day at a time for a show and then onto the next place. The people are very friendly and it's one of the better audiences you'll...

I have been traveling to Africa with fair frequency for ten years now. No matter what part of the continent I have visited, I always come away with a mixture of feelings from great amazement to great sorrow. During the time of apartheid, Nelson Mandela's incarceration, the Truth and Reconciliation...

New Orleans. Like many Americans, I watched with a combination of fascination, horror and great sadness as water destroyed countless acres of New Orleans in August of 2005. For days we all watched as citizens of our country stood on roofs surrounded by water, waving their arms for help. Many...

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Have you ever heard someone remark that "if I said what was really on my mind..."? I always wondered, what the fuck is holding them back?

And when they finally do let loose and feel all the better for it, they're never...

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Advertisers and companies who attempt to set the trends for the American consumer are slowly but surely separating good people from their hard-earned money by changing the perception of what "getting by" looks like.

Getting by used to mean that when you...

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I've never gambled in the classic sense. Never pulled the arm of a slot machine, don't know how Black Jack works, wouldn't be caught dead on Poker Tour and can't be bothered to put a dollar on black 47. I don't understand the...

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It's hard to get through a news program without hearing the results of the latest poll on elections, popularity, or the war conducted by the likes of Zogby, Gallup or whoever else decides there's good money in asking people simple questions. The cynic...

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What are you doing to fight the war on germs? All over America, bacteria cells are losing sleep, knowing that the rapture is just a spray and a wipe away. Germs hate your freedom and if you don't kill them now, they will...

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History isn't broken, but it's getting fixed all the same. You can't handle the truth?! No problem! When history doesn't fit your needs, just change it. History's old -- it needs a makeover! The new truth has to have more truthiosity to stand...

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Venezuela's leader Hugo Chavez is on the move. He is ending his country's association with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, he very recently took control of oil projects in Venezuela away from American and European companies basically telling institutions like...

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In the last few years, many Americans have become desensitized to bad news. We have all watched the corporate media outlets attempt to put a happy or at least hopeful face on catastrophic events and all it did was make many of us...

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Recently, over sixteen thousand college students completed an evaluation called The Narcissism Personality Inventory and it was determined that narcissism on college campuses is at an all time high! Oh no! All over America, healthy, privileged white kids are having mind-blowing sex and...

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I'm sure you have had the experience of watching television and snapping to attention when you hear a familiar song by one of your favorite small of fame bands as the backdrop for an automobile commercial. Perhaps you have thought to yourself, "That...

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I have never sat in front of a screen with that thing in my hands and played a video game. I once played an Asteroids type game that came with a computer I bought in the 90's and decided it was a great...

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I can still remember my mother coming back to our apartment after one of her marathon Erhard Seminar Training, otherwise known as EST, weekends and exclaiming such cultish bullshit as, "Be here now!" "You're an asshole!" Well, she got it half right but...

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On September 11th, 2001 America woke up to one hell of a disaster. In less than an hour the entire world changed as we knew it and many of us were filled with grief, shock, horror and an overwhelming anger directed at our...

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How many heroes have lasted very long before they were caught red-handed, dismantled and cast down? Not many, and their shelf life seems to be getting shorter and shorter. We go from enamored to enraged to disinterested in little more than a press...

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I felt bad for Fred Goldman and his family after his son Ron was killed along with Nicole Simpson many years ago. But my sympathies started to fray when I noticed that Mr. Goldman started making himself available to CNN and other news...

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I cannot tell you how hard it is for me NOT to trust people. If you say you can do it, I believe you and will leave you to it. You got it covered? That's great, one less thing for me to worry...

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I have come to the conclusion that no president will ever rock my world like Ozzy Osbourne does. Iggy Pop fucking rules and The Ramones saved Rock and Roll. No president will ever fill me with that kind of admiration, awe or respect....