On Wednesday night the Orthodox Union/JLIC at the Tanger Hillel of Brooklyn College had a panel discussion entitled “Depression and Anxiety: Let’s Talk”, with the intent of breaking the stigma and getting the community talking. Very often mental illness is a disease of separation where people feel different, isolated, and alone…and you really don’t have …
I recently have been exploring the idea of some sort of book sharing program. I bought two books, had them delivered to a couple of people, and the plan was to have them pass it on to the next reader when they were done with it. There were/are a few problems with my plan…the first …
Looking around NYC just about every car has something in common: They have an E-Z Pass tag stuck to the windshield. The NorthEast part of North America, including 16 States and Ontario, Canada, have E-Z Pass for their toll collection system. For those unfamiliar, you just drive through the toll booth, and the scanners read …
May 17, 2014 I started to write a post about new turn rules that I thought needed to get implemented on Ocean Parkway. I got lazy and never finished it since I wanted to add in diagrams explaining what I wanted, yet I referenced it in 2015…but now, almost three years later they’ve actually put …
Media critic and NYU Professor of Journalism Jay Rosen had an interesting thought process this weekend about the Trump White House vs. CNN, and I thought it’d be nice to compile it in one place for easy reading. My thoughts on it: I think it is a very interesting take, and I am curious to …
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Following the Rolling Stone article from a few months ago (which I discussed here), it’s important to look at other things that are affected by our need for everything NOW. Everyone likes to get their information spoon fed to them as fast as possible, and if a news site doesn’t get up the story fast, …
The Greatest Show on Earth is coming to a close.
Time for Twitter to remove the eggs. What’s that? You don’t know what a Twitter egg is? Well, it’s the users that don’t have verification or a picture and stand behind these anonymous accounts with nothing but an egg as their profile. The problem is that these are the very people that bully others on social …
After the shooting at Fort Lauderdale airport on Friday, the focus of many people was on the wrong thing. He took the gun out of his luggage and loaded it in the bathroom before returning to the baggage claim. The fact that the gun was in his luggage was inconsequential. People need ways to transport …
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