Public Rudeness Public rudeness or incivility is everywhere you look. It is the note someone leaves on your car for parking too close to the lines; it is the snapping at the cashier in the grocery store when she won't take your coupon, and it is in the media. Look at Howard Stern, Jerry Sprin...

Taking Things For Granted... While chowing down some fried rice, I was busy watching poetry in action when my mother told me to turn off 'that wrestling trash.' Then I pondered something: how many people are missing out on this stuff? Then I pondered something else: how many ...

America in General is culturally imperialistic. Since European expansion we have impressed the "white way" upon everyone we have visited. An Indian from the Sioux tribe once said, "everywhere on earth the white man has treaded, it is sore." In retrospect to the history of the wh...

When I visited Mexico for the first time, I remember thinking that it was not the third-world country that everyone had described to me. After a couple of days there and a little more venturing into Mexico, I realized that it was really everything that had been described. While we were in the vacati...