Spoiled teenagers clean garbage to understand value of labor
Indulgent teenagers collect garbage from under a booth in Pham The Hien Market in District 8 With their parents’ permission, some spoiled teenagers in Ho Chi Minh City were tasked for sanitary work on...
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Italo-Moroccan fans in Milan during the European Championships in 2012. By Sophia Heydebrand As a child I hated traveling. My parents would sit in the front seat of our rental car (a steel trap to me)...
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Silvio Berlusconi: Battered, bruised, aging, under siege, and still kicking. When I tell my fellow university students I’m Italian, I almost always get two questions: “Can you teach me how to cook...
View ArticleStockton’s Bad Rep
What does The City of Stockton and Lindsay Lohan have in common? Anytime they’re in the press, its bad press. For Stockton, that means someone was robbed, or murdered. Good news is in short supply...
View ArticleWhy elitism is dragging France down
France‘s National Assembly where the corridors are patrolled by an elite who are not good at doing their job, argues author Peter Gumbel. There is no egalité when it comes to France’s ruling class,...
View ArticleFreaky Foul Freeloading Friday: Michael Douglas,RHONJ,The Big Wheel, FBI, No...
Hott in Sacramento Its gonna be hot in Sacramento. Not warm, freekin hot ,anywhere from 103 to 108. Every summer, even after 20 years, I question the wisdom of my...
View ArticleWhat Do You Think People Misunderstand Most About Islam?
Filed under: Education, Equality, Facebook, Good People, INTERNATIONAL, Internet Dating, Relationships, Religion, Rumorcity, Social Networking, You Tube Tagged: Islam, What Do You Think People...
View ArticleFriday’s Mashed Potatoes 06/14/13
Sunday: Neil Patrick Harris is Bigger! Harvey Fierstein and Cyndi Lauper are going to be Richer! After winning six Tonys — including Best Musical — this past weekend, Kinky Boots will kick off a...
View ArticleRetirement at 77? The problems of Italy’s Aging Population
The future strength of a country is dependent upon its population, but what happens if a country cannot rely upon future generations? This is the question being raised in Italy, where population ageing...
View ArticleSacramento Pride 2013
Click to view slideshow. Pinky Up: I’m from San Francisco. When anyone would ask me about Pride in Sacramento, I would say you must be on time because 5 people walk in a small circle twice. My...
View ArticleBIG MAN RIDES: A brief encounter with the Tesla S
I am not an automotive journalist . Automobile manufactures do not invite me to media events to test drive their products. I have never test driven an electric car because of their very limited...
View ArticleSupport “STOP” Voters should decide on Sacramento’s NBA Arena
On Monday Sacramento Taxpayers Opposed to Pork (STOP) begin’s its initiative signature drive with the goal of collecting 33,ooo votes to force a public vote on the NBA arena subsidy. The City...
View ArticleMelting ice pushes Norway closer to Asia
The town of Kirkenes in northernmost Norway used to be further away from Asia than virtually any other European port, but it suddenly seems a lot closer due to the global warming. Melting ice has...
View ArticleVoting Rights: Texas making it difficult for Blacks and Latinos to Vote
Just two hours after the Supreme Court reasoned that discrimination is not rampant enough in Southern states to warrant restrictions under the Voting Rights Act, Texas is already advancing a voter ID...
View Article‘Working hours in Spain are too long’
Spain moves to a different rhythm to the rest of Europe with people working, eating and going to bed later than anywhere else. In The Local’s latest opinion piece, we ask whether its time for a change...
View ArticleZimmerman: Now What?
Florida’s stand your law ground has allowed another murderer to walk. Zimmerman isn’t the first, he is simply the person YOU know about. Trayvon Martin isn’t the first person of color killed...
View ArticleA place where everybody knows your name
Jenny Konkin and brother Josh Konkin unload items for the Whole Way House fundraising picnic at the Prospect picnic area, Stanley Park on Saturday, July 20 2013. Photograph by: Gerry Kahrmann ,...
View ArticleBlack Women kept out of University of Alabama’s white sororities
BY PRACHI GUPTA/Salon Fifty years after The University of Alabama was desegregated, “the UA greek system is still almost completely divided along racial lines,” reports UA’s newspaper The Crimson...
View ArticleOreo cookies ‘as addictive as cocaine’– and lab rats, like humans, eat the...
Potent: Lab rats find the sugary snack irresistible By: Rebecca Pocklington/UK Mirror Oreo cookies are just as addictive and pleasurable as taking cocaine or morphine according to a study by...
View ArticleThe Late Night Lesbian
By:CityFella Indigestion, PBS, email and the long road to lesbianism After several decades of marriage, children,grandchildren and great grandchildren a dear friend discovers she is gay. Unable to...
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