Calvin on Inheriting the Earth

Racism is terrible, on a par with sexism and homophobia, fifty years پہلے (and sometimes now!) the country آپ where born in could effect the quality of your education, your chances of promotion یا even employment, weather آپ would be allowed on TV and even who your allowed to marry.

Luckily though thanks to Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King and a whole host of protesters, African-Americans have a lot مزید rights than they did 50 years ago, along with any other discriminated races.
But somehow, i think people are abusing the rights Ms.Park and thousands of others have fought for after she sat on...

It's been کہا that those who don't accept Biblical یا Koranic یا whatever support in a non-religious argument are being close-minded and intolerant of their beliefs. I've stated many times why I do not accept religious arguments, and it has nothing to do with being intolerant of those beliefs. So I decided I'd state here once and for all why I feel religious reasons do not belong in a debate (unless that debate is about religions).

First of all, I'd just like to state that obviously religion is a major thing in the lives of a lot of people in the world. I agree with Obama in that I don't believe...

I respect most religious beliefs, mostly because I have a deep respect for the grounds they stand on. Those are very sacred grounds, with roots in history, culture, and philosophy. And these beautiful things are nothing to sneer at. People forget sometimes that this is where religion comes from, that we are religion as much as we are history.

I will always fight for a person's right to practice and believe in anything that feels right to them in their soul, so long as in practicing that religion, they do not infringe upon the rights of others to do the same. In my time, both on Fanpop and off...

This is quite possibly the first in a series of rants on my part concerning the organization, link and its place in the current education debate in the US. So, آپ know, keep an eye out, if only so آپ can avoid those rants when آپ see them in your updates.

I want to start with an anecdote. A fellow حالیہ Masters in Teaching grad and I were going to one of our پسندیدہ restaurants in the city. On the same block is an سیب, ایپل store. I saw some Teach For America (TFA) sign in the window, rolled my eyes, and followed my friend into the restaurant. I should note that when I saw this, my University...