Electrons are very energetic particles. They carry a negative charge and move around at nearly the speed of light. Depending on what material they are moving through, electrons can perform a number of useful and interesting tasks. Most notably, electrons can be used in various ways to create and manipulate motion, light, and sound. However useful electrons may be under the right circumstances, they are very negative and tend to disagree a great deal. Because of this disagreeable tendency, technology has seen fit to create electron prisons, known as “batteries.”

Nothing will make you miss New Orleans faster than finding out you can't buy liquor.

It's 12:30 a.m. on a Sunday night (or Monday morning, if that's how YOU tell time). I have hard American currency and 27 years of age. I have a driver's license with a baked-looking picture of me as proof and everything. But no go – at this point, I might as well be in Oxford, Mississippi. No booze for me.

“Funny thing is, I think I'm actually happier thinking that God is real, and that He hates me, than I was when I was a proper atheist. Death scared me silly back when I figured there was no God. I mean, petrified silly. Couldn't-sleep silly. Thought-about-killing-myself-as-a-kid silly. I know, you wouldn't think fear of death would make you suicidal, but it did, because the way I saw it, I was going to die eventually. It didn't matter what I did. Everyone dies. And once I died, it would all be pointless. Endless nothingness. Like I'd never existed at all.

My faith in the common sense of my fellow Baton Rouge residents was recently bolstered after I learned that, of the 600 stores across the nation Starbucks^® is closing, nine are right here in the Capital City. Only San Diego and Las Vegas will see more closings.

I can only infer from such a decision that local coffee drinkers have opted to patronize local java purveyors over Starbucks more so than just about any other city. Either that, or they opened too many of them here in the first place.

This month’s Hero proves that, even though a person’s public image was forged in gunfire, disputes can still be settled in a civil manner. More specifically, they can be settled in a civil court of law. To that end, 50 Cent has sued Taco Bell for $4 million for using his name without permission in a guerilla advertising campaign.