This just blows my mind. I have to get up disgustingly early tomorrow but I can’t stop playing with this. Wow. You can actually get 360 panoramic views at street level now. Wow.
Here is a random dirt road in Arkansas:
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US 66 in New Mexico:
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The corner of Haight […]

In a recent discussion about the awesome article by Newt Gingrich suggesting we End Adolescence my support for his plans to put youth in the work force earlier were questioned:
Seems to me Gingrich is advocating imposing the burdens of adulthood on kids while not giving them any of the benefits. Why would anyone who advocated […]

Telling it like it is.
Conservatism’s current intellectual chaos reverberated in the Republican ticket’s end-of-campaign crescendo of surreal warnings that big government — verily, “socialism” — would impend were Democrats elected. John McCain and Sarah Palin experienced this epiphany when Barack Obama told a Toledo plumber that he would “spread the wealth around.”
America can’t have that, […]

FIRST NATIONAL DEBATE ON LOWERING THE LEGAL DRINKING AGE- College Presidents, Experts, Authors and Associations on the Elite Panel-
WHAT: Manhattanville College hosts the first national debate convened to consider the proposition that it is time to rethink the legal drinking age.
The elite panel will openly discuss the legal drinking age and explore whether or not […]

I knew that any positive feeling I had over Obama’s election would fade, but I didn’t expect it to start to fade into disappointment so soon. His first act as President-elect was to name Rahm Emmanuel as his Chief of Staff. Ugh. Non-youth rights supporters should be disappointed in this pick as […]

Graham Anderson at Brown University wrote another excellent voting age column. He makes a lot of key arguments and addresses many key misconceptions about the voting age.
A few gems:
Someone told me that a child would vote based on whether a candidate’s name was funny. But have we not already seen adults who […]

My day began watching MSNBC and CNN for election coverage. Watching Obama take like 15 minutes to fill out his ballot (yikes, is the IL ballot that complicated, or was he just taking his time knowing the cameras were on him?) Funny note during the show, Bill Ayers came in to vote at […]

Ah! It is finally here! I feel like a kid on Christmas morning! Election! Election!

I finally saw the movie Bobby last night. Overall the movie wasn’t much to write home about (I liked it though), but the last scene after Kennedy was shot and they showed the aftermath of the shooting was excellent. Kennedy’s speech, “On the Mindless Menace of Violence” was just amazing. So.. to […]