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March 31, 2008

Drugs should be legal.

Yep. That’s coming from a guy who has never even smoked a cigarette. Our prohibition policy (click me!) is just plain stupid, economically and socially.
The United States spent > $13,000,000,000 last year on the drug war alone. Hmmmm, if we repurposed that money, could it be used to cover healthcare for all of our citizens [...]

Filed by ryanroth at March 31st, 2008 under Dijyano, Our World
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March 23, 2008

A few notes on freedom

Or videos rather. Below you’ll find a few tidbits from the freedom front. Yes, I am worried about our “democracy”, our “freedom”, our “foreign policy”, our healthcare costs, and our (America’s) future. Call me alarmist, I call it realist. Be aware people, start to care. Look at the signs around you. I’m not asking you [...]

Filed by ryanroth at March 23rd, 2008 under Our World
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March 15, 2008

oh yapple.

Last week I built a beautiful Jeopardy game for my “Perspectives in Health and Medicine” class, and I needed some way to connect my MacBook to the projector in the class room. Amazon wouldn’t be quick enough since I needed it in T minus 3 hours, so naturally - I scrambled down to the local [...]

Filed by ryanroth at March 15th, 2008 under Life, Our World
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December 4, 2007

Beating Main Stream Media

I woke up this morning to find this clip on reddit. Made me laugh out loud (lol as some say) and gave me a resurgence of hope that we’ll get someone in the white house that is principled, honest and working for the people.

Filed by ryanroth at December 4th, 2007 under Our World
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November 20, 2007

Conviction

Interpret as you must. But these people have found a way to take a stance for their beliefs. An interesting and compelling video. Perhaps if more Americans took action like this our government would notice the civil unrest due to their decisions.

Filed by ryanroth at November 20th, 2007 under Our World
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