brian mcguigan

Posts Tagged Life

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26 March 2008 @ 9am

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Danger at home and on the streets

More LAPD officers kill themselves than are killed in the line of duty. That from a study released yesterday:
Police officers in Los Angeles are more likely to take their own life than be killed by a criminal, according to a report presented today to the Police Commission. The data was included in a study by [...]


Posted
23 March 2008 @ 9am

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Food for thought: the status quo of America

My brother spotted this around Portland a few days ago. It got me thinking about the status quo in America. Hopefully it will do the same for you.


Posted
20 March 2008 @ 5pm

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Good question

Stencil by Banksy


Posted
19 March 2008 @ 6am

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Arthur C. Clarke’s parting message

Scientist and author Arthur C. Clarke passed away today at the age of 90. He released a thought provoking goodbye a few months back. In it he says that “the golden age of space is only just beginning … Space travel and space tourism will one day become almost as commonplace as flying to exotic [...]


Posted
12 March 2008 @ 5pm

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Stick a fork in privacy, it’s done

Here’s the next wave of cell phone technology. Sprint and Boost already offer this service.


Posted
3 March 2008 @ 6am

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Are We Rome?

The following is a timely passage from the book Are We Rome? by Cullen Murphy.

In 68 B.C. a pirate attack on Rome’s port of Ostia prompted the terrified Romans to cede far-reaching powers to one man, Pompey. There would be no turning back. The need to act boldly and react quickly; to ferret out enemy [...]


Lock up

1 out of every 100 Americans are in prison.
1/36 hispanics
1/15 blacks
Experts say mandatory minimums, longer sentences in general, and less liberal parole guidelines have converged to create the worlds highest incarcerated population.
Meanwhile, crime rates remain stagnent and prison budgets have skyrocketed. In some states, like Oregon, more is spent on ‘corrections’ than higher education.
I [...]


Florida legislator proposes ‘confederate heritage’ license plate

You can read the full story in the USA Today article.


Muslim Group Tries to Censor Wikipedia

Over 100,000 people have signed an online petition asking Wikipedia to ‘peacefully’ remove the above picture of Muhammad. Of course, Islamic teaching prohibits images of the prophet–hence the protest.
Wikipedia though refuses to comply stating that it will not be subject to ‘censorship:’
Since Wikipedia is an encyclopedia with the goal of representing all topics from a [...]


Warning Signs of Tomorrow

Anders Sandberg came out with these awhile ago, I just stumbled across them here. Check it out, he explains each sign in detail.


Posted
20 January 2008 @ 9am

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Life

Pale Blue Dot

Here’s the late, great Carl Sagan putting us in our place. We often forget how small we are and how big the universe is. This reminder makes me especially enjoy his point about wars for territory.


Posted
19 January 2008 @ 5pm

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LAPD Deploys Hand-held Translators

Quietly introduced to the department in late summer, the Phraselator may have found an ideal home in Los Angeles, where police have long struggled to find officers who can communicate in all 224 languages spoken in the immigrant-rich city.
The idea of a simple device that can instantly translate any language is a staple of utopian [...]


Posted
4 January 2008 @ 6pm

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Posted
4 January 2008 @ 5pm

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Cloned Livestock Products OK to Eat

Is there any correlation between food prices and cancer rates?
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) is expected to declare as early as next week that meat and milk from cloned animals and their offspring is safe to eat, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.


A Short History of America

Our urban development in drawings.


Driving In the Bible Belt

Evangelical group believes I-35 to be biblical.


LA Street Gangs

“I remember us thinking, how long is this going to go, how much is this going to trigger, how bad is this going to get, how many people are going to die?”


MLB Steroid Scandal

There’s no way to ’solve’ it


Trend in America: Atheism

Religion is losing its place as a pillar of American society.


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