The 22 Percenters
We welcome commentator Vern Avaritt’s second entry to our new blog. Usual disclaimer: The opinions expressed are the commentor’s, and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Loveshade Family. The...
View ArticlePreteen Gag Order: Welcome to Corporate America
At the age of 10 and 7, two American children had their freedom of speech legally truncated. By an agreement made by their parents, Chris and Stephanie Hallowich, a Pennsylvania boy and girl apparently...
View ArticleOne Year Since We Learned of Massive Government Spying
“They Knew Our Secrets. One Year Later, We Know Theirs. “One year ago, the world had never heard of Edward Snowden, and we knew very little about the breathtaking scope of U.S. government...
View ArticleHaving Trouble Posting Blog Comments?
Apparently some people have been getting an error message when they try to post. Often this is something saying, “You are posting comments too quickly. Slow down” — even when they haven’t posted any...
View ArticleGoodbye Yahoo! Contributor Network
I have published several articles through the Yahoo! Contributor Network including Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Voices, and Yahoo! Sports. I just had one published a few days ago, and was working on another....
View ArticleWhy are Children Overweight? 95210
Why are American children overweight? Because they eat too much junk food and don’t exercise enough. Duh. The obesity rate in children is four times what it was a few decades ago. Why? I teach first...
View ArticleNet Neutrality Could End February 26–FCC Chair Speaks
The American Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is scheduled to vote on net neutrality on 26 Februrary, 2015. This decision could affect every single person who uses the Internet in America, and...
View ArticleWorld Leaders Secrets Leaked: What About Yours?
An autofill error led to personal information of 31 world leaders, including Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin, being leaked. While it happened last year, the information is just now being released....
View ArticleStop Mattel’s Eavesdropping Hello Barbie
“I want strangers spying on and talking to little girls.” If you agree with the above, there’s no need for concern. If you do not, then know that Mattel has announced “Hello Barbie.” The doll has a...
View ArticleEk-sen-trik-kuh Discordia 10 Year Anniversary
No, it’s not the 10-year anniversary of the book. Ek-sen-trik-kuh Discordia: The Tales of Shamlicht came out just a couple years ago–then was pulled from publication very, very quickly. (Obscenity?...
View ArticleWhere’s The Blogs?
As of right now, you may notice there’s almost a year gap between blog posts. Yes, we’re aware of it, and yes, we’re working on it. We had something of a glitch ($%&!#X!) in doing an update....
View ArticleBrother and Sister Plan to Have a Baby Together
Chalk that headline up as another one that’s not quite what you might think it is but gets attention. “Funnily enough, there’s actually nothing remotely incestuous about my sister and I planning to...
View ArticleHumans are Sheep–Stand with the Flock?
A small social experiment–would you stand at a buzzer just because everybody else does? In “free” societies, it’s often used as an insult to call people “sheep.” We like to say, “Do your own thing,”...
View ArticleAlden Loveshade: Why Wait Til I’m Dead?
IMPORTANT: As of this posting, Alden Loveshade is very much alive. Alden has been to far too many funerals/memorial services in the past few years, losing a father, two brothers, uncle, cousin, etc....
View Article9 Incredible Benefits of Breastfeeding
An opinion by guest blogger Jessica M Breastfeeding is the most natural way of taking care of your little one. It’s an incredible method of nourishing your baby, and its benefits extend beyond the...
View ArticleDonald Trump Lies
All right, so the title of this entry is hardly ground-breaking. Even supporters of Donald Trump say he lies (and may justify it by saying all politicians lie and they don’t care). But comparing the...
View ArticleFM Mind Control
“In telecommunications including radio, frequency modulation (FM) is the encoding of information in a carrier wave by varying the instantaneous frequency of the wave. In practice, it is used as a form...
View ArticleThe Moon and the Future of Humanity
“That’s one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.” — Neil Armstrong, 20 July 1969 Today marks the 50th anniversary of something completely unprecedented in human history–a human being...
View ArticleMedia Bias/Fact Check–Biased?
I recently became aware of a service called Media Bias/Fact Check which calls itself “The Most Comprehensive Media Bias Resource.” That sounds great–unless the resource itself is biased. So I did a...
View ArticleExchange Students from Anywhere and Anywhen
This is the last call for submissions to the anthology “Exchange Students.” I’m going to be in it; will you? “Editor Sheila Hartney and I (David Lee Summers) have been enjoying reading the wonderful...
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