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Snatched From The Safety of His Home, Son Reunites With Dad After Thirteen Years

Posted on September 23, 2013 by loganperatla

It had been thirteen years since a Floridian father (whose name police are not releasing) had last seen his one year old son. Back in the year 2000, the father was heading off to work and allowed the child’s grandmother …

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New Miss America’s Ethnicity Insights Racial Slurs And Overshadows Her Win

Posted on September 16, 2013 by loganperatla

After having to compete in numerous pageants, the big day finally came for Miss New York’s Nina Davuluri as she has been crowned the new Miss America. Just 24 years old and of Indian descent, this young lady has no …

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Website Owner Creates An Online Uproar Due To Insensitive Website Name

Posted on September 9, 2013 by loganperatla

Earlier this week a website was created with the intention of providing its customers with a way to know what neighborhoods are safe and unsafe. While this may seem extremely beneficial, it actually was highly offensive to a great number …

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Is Google The Real-Life Skynet?

Posted on July 24, 2012 by loganperatla

Those of you familiar with James Cameron’s classic science fiction series The Terminator may be able to relate with me in my fear that it may someday happen.  By “it” I mean the point in time where computers take over …

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Are We Willing to Pay the Price?

Posted on July 16, 2012 by loganperatla

There is no such thing as a free lunch.  Really, there isn’t.  Someone somewhere had to pay for it.  In his article titled “Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change”, Neil Postman takes this cliché to the next …

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Serve the Public Good?

Posted on July 11, 2012 by loganperatla

When I think of a wasteland, I think of a huge open space with minimal vegetation and barely any life.  A chairman of the Federal Communications Committee once compared American television programming to a “Vast Wasteland.”  In his ground-shaking speech, …

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Don’t Take Freedom For Granted

Posted on July 4, 2012 by loganperatla

In America, rigid laws both protect and police the journalists.  One of the purposes of these laws is to protect the news venues from censorship.  Censorship, an ugly concept that most Americans really do not commonly experience, runs rampant in …

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Keeping Our Heads Up While Drowning in Information

Posted on June 26, 2012 by loganperatla

Everyday, every hour, every minute, and even every second we are faced with decisions.  Some of these decisions are monumental, while some are miniscule.  In her article titled “I Can’t Think!”, Sharon Begley explores some of the shortcomings that most …

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