myTakes: Society & Politics

In case you don't know, I recently spent 10 days in Barcelona. When we realized we had booked a hotel in a Muslim neighborhood, we were literally terrified and almost canceled our trip. I'm glad we didn't, because it...

Periodically users here ask why kids today are having so much sex, using drugs so much and getting pregnant so young. Why can't they be like the kids of the past! Someone asked this today, and like usual, I noted that...

https://www.youtube.com/embed/HVKuA1s5I3o GREETINGS AND SALUTATIONS Thank you for taking the time to stop by, you see I had hoped that you might and I have been sitting here waiting. Why you ask? Well, now I am not sure...

@roaring20sman recently asked a question about gender identity and the same day I had seen quite a few questions about transgender people so I figured I'd write this myTake to cover most of the frequently asked questions...

Society and Politics are NOT the same. I will be honest from the start so that there is no doubt about who I voted for. I voted for Trump. Now please, before you automatically dismiss me based on that fact, I am begging...

Many years ago, we had this... https://www.youtube.com/embed/ld1IWNJ3sgw Followed by this: https://www.youtube.com/embed/voMW-P9bU8I And this... https://www.youtube.com/embed/xpNsAAdryQ4 All Positive Points.. America...

Carver was born a slave and his mother/sister were kidnapped. No one is exactly sure when he was born, but he was most certainly born before 1964. He was raised by his "master" and wife as their children after slavery was...

Ah. Family. The people that bring you happiness.. http://www.startribune.com/families-divided-in-the-trump-era-i-didn-t-talk-to-my-parents-for-weeks/415957734/ - Families divided in the Trump era: 'I didn't talk to...

Dear white men, please stop oppressing minorities and acknowledge that you have it way better than them. I mean the unfair advantages start early on, when you have the higest school dropout rates. nobody needs an...

so i'm a social scientist and i just made that discovery, so i thought i'd share it: in a nutshell, upon mulitvariate analysis of determinants of "life satisfaction" it turns out that being politically left ceteris...

Have you ever thought about what your life would be like if you didn't have aisles and aisles of food to choose from in the supermarket? Clothes to buy? How about if you didn't have drugs that were needed to save your...

It seems pretty obvious to me, that people who supports Trump, are in average people who use their minds and are able to mix using sense and emotions, when forming their opinions. For example I've always been good and...

Anyone who drinks alcohol is a foolish person. A fool is someone who makes unwise decisions. Compromising your menal faculties by consuming intoxicants is not only unwise but also incredibly harmful. Drinking not only...

The Tsar Bomb The Tsar Bomb is the largest nuclear device ever detonated. Dropped on an island about 400km from the Russian mainland. It detonated with the force of 57 megatons. The height of the mushroom cloud...

This is gonna be a shorter my take compared to what i'm used to, but i wanted to highlight 2 stories that came out recently. The first one is from the new york times, The world economic forum was held in davos Switzerland...

Voters elected President Trump to SHAKE UP Washington, not to follow the status quo which is ever bigger, ever more intrusive, ever more controlling, ever more corrupt, ever less sovereign government: changes which are...

Saw this one on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/embed/jZqOpmO3EdM I was expecting to laugh but then the parody showed some very serious clips. The worse one being a nanny throwing a child face first into a crib and...

I wrote this against the backdrop of a car bomb, which fortunately hurt nobody, going off last week in Londonderry. Nevertheless, let us hope that this proves to be an isolated incident, unrelated to what I am writing...