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.”
From the Crescent City to the Red Stick By Brian Bonhagen
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.
Is the Plural of Starbucks “Starbucks”? By Jeremy White
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.