Some topics are milked far too much. Proposition 8 is one of them. With so many arguments and retorts, one would think that the cow's udders have no juice left. And he would be correct. To save the cow from exhaustion, let's stop milking and make some butter. Homosexual relationships are as intimate and loving, as intertwined with jealousy and rancor, as shallow and as sophisticated as any other heterosexual relationship. To assume that compassionate intimacy is bound by sexual orientation, or that benign, familial relationships can't be established in certain households, is to milk the chicken and collect the eggs from the cow. However, to assume that the state needs to formally recognize such intimacy is also missing the mark.
Christian metal rockers, Underoath, take over the Bren Events Center on Saturday night before a mosh pit-ready crowd, delivering a heavy pounding set dominated by vocalist Spencer Chamberlain's guttural screams.
Regardless of how the media portrays Iran, the aggressiveness of the regime is much worse than what we see or feel in the West. Phrases from the Quran are written on freeways, buildings and walls by the government. On streets and street corners are numbers of stations, not much larger than a porta-potty, with "Diplomatic Police" written horizontally in big, white, English block letters. Inside each sits an intimidating-looking man wearing a green military suit and holding a large rifle. This all is in the name of instilling fear for the sake of control.
What has the digital age come to when people can't fully control information about themselves that is floating around on the Internet? Many people argue that the value of privacy has depreciated due to this society of open information. This lack of privacy has resulted in a normalized feature of the rising digital culture.
