Welcome to 2012!! and Milestone: 1000 hits!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!! WELCOME TO THE LAST YEAR OF HUMAN EXISTENCE (not really).

Also, I just passed the 1000 milestone. One thousand hits over five days!! That equates to 200 hits a day. Thanks guys! Let's increase that to 300, shall we? :)

CoC: The Republican Nomination

NOTE: This is the first post in a weekly series. I invite other bloggers and writers to discuss controversial topics with me. Check back every Thursday for the latest article. This article was supposed to run yesterday but the writer who was taking Ron Paul's viewpoint didn't turn his assignment in. Apologies. I've replaced that viewpoint with a fifth writer who intriguingly also picked Jon Huntsman. Many thanks to Josh who joined on short notice. Enjoy!

This is the first post in what I hope will become a long series that will be informative and attract many, many readers. This week's topic: The Republican Nomination

Why this topic?

With no clear-cut strong candidates and strong backlash against every candidate, this is the craziest Republican race in two decades. Since Ronald Reagan, the party has always been decently stable, anchored by the Bush family, and other holdovers from the Reagan era. But today, no candidate has been able to capture more than a quarter of the Republican vote at any one time.

Book Review - Jane Eyre

I thoroughly enjoyed this Gothic novel. Bronte fleshes out her characters well. I give this one a 4.5/5. It lost a half-star because I got fed up with some of the overly melodramatic parts here and there. I know everyone has read it so I'm going to instead analyze the book instead of giving you a plot summary. What do you guys think? I'm going to be lazy with this book report and re-post an essay I wrote for my AP Literature class which my teacher loved...




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Tuesday Post: Guess what I'm doing with my Holiday Break...

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Hello World!

Have you ever stared at the ceiling while in bed and suddenly had an epiphany? An insight into something? An intriguing theory? And then the next [fill in the blank - day/week/minute], you forget about it? Because you never wrote it down? This is my attempt to jot down the thoughts that I want to share but don't. An alternative title for this blog could be...