The Daily Skunk

Authors should not get emails when comments are posted to one of their articles anymore.

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“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.” — Bertrand Russell

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As I walked through the mall today in a Post-Christmas frenzy, I got extremely worried about the future of art and free thought. To me, creating art (music, poetry, essays, drawing, etc.) is an expression of independent thought. As I stumbled through throngs of teenagers returning various gifts, I wondered how any sort of free [...]

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So, apparently it’s final.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061226/ap_on_re_mi_ea/saddam_s_sentence
Saddam’s a dead man. He’s going to hang within 30 days. Too bad for him and lucky for the middle east he didn’t have OJ’s dream team defending him.
I have many thoughts on this ranging from why the world didn’t step up years ago and bring him to trial for the [...]

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Disclaimer - warriorzerosix holds no political views to heart, he either agrees or disagrees with whoever runs the country on whatever issues their pimping this week. Furthermore, for the purposes of this article, he acknowledges he is NOT a parent, and that parents are a very special breed of people, one that his high powered [...]

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If Allan Iverson is the “answer” then the NBA is in trouble. Not sure how many sports finatics we have in this love covenant but I just felt the urge to express my thoughts on an organization that once deemed to be prestine. In my opinion, the National Basketball Association is on the verge of [...]

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The appropriate way to start this article is a quote by Winton Churchill when he said “The farther you look into the past the farther you can see into the future.”  This quote obviously means that he like me and history proves is that history repeats itself and we are not smart enought to realize [...]

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You may have heard about it before, but I think it is important so I figured I’d write something about it to try to make it easy to understand.
First, check out this comercial on Net Neutrality from the National Cable & Telecommunications Association
Sounds like net neutrality is gonna cost us a lot more money [...]

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“If your response is indicative of what you have to offer this site, or humanity, I politely suggest that you snack on buckshot, a la Cobain, or simply return to the Star Trek blogs.”
-oddnoteccenteric
That’s all, I just think this is hilarious.  I will repost this many times throughout the skunks existence.
William

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After reading the article “Why America Protects Flag Burning” I immediately wrote two comments about my thoughts on the matter. I didn’t even give it much thought, the words just spilled out. I look back at the first one, and after much thought on the matter, I wonder where that really came from.
Why [...]

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