Angela Bacca

Nearly 2 weeks after the state of California approved same-sex marriages, a new poll has been released today saying that for the first time in the state’s history the majority of Californians approve of same-sex marriage.
 
Message boards online are cluttered with babble about God and what He wants, or would want.
 
“There are serious [...]

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The media-created controversy that has been plaguing Barack Obama has swirled further out of control as his former pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, attempts to publicly vindicate himself.
“You cannot do terrorism on other people and not expect it to come back to you,” he said yesterday.
Why are these words so inflammatory, and who exactly is offended? [...]

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I am very disappointed in the city government of San Francisco, and all the parties involved in conning the public and ass-kissing of the Chinese government.
I haven’t seen this yet anywhere in the news, but the mobs of protesters along the Embarcadero yesterday were not always non-violent, and I have already heard a few [...]

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Lately I have been hearing a lot of talk about Barack Obama. It comes in tidbits of conversation, mostly from the mouths of TV pundits and once-source news readers who just aren‘t sure if America is ready for “change”. This “change” has gained a new and tacky meaning, one that assumes we are all inherently [...]

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On September 11, 2001, I was a high school sophomore at a Catholic school on the Central Coast of California. Being 3000 miles away from ground zero, I probably did not take the situation with as much seriousness as I should have.
We loved 9/11, at first. We got out of all of our classes, and [...]

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Tonight at the Ace Bar in San Francisco (14th and Mission), I held a long and disorganized discussion about religion, politics, and other taboo topics of conversation with a Guinness-drinker who would only allow himself to be identified as “The Suppository of Knowledge”.
We began to discuss the tired topic of the Bush Administration.
I began by [...]

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There is nothing new about voters struggling to determine which candidate is the least evil dirt bag in the upcoming presidential election.
What is new is that this is the first election where so many people around the world have so much access to information. Essentially, everyone’s dirty laundry will be on global display this time. [...]

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Rapper Jay-Z’s new video, “Blue Magic,” features scenes of New York City, clubs, cars and stacks of euros. That’s right, euros—not dollars.
The dollar continues to drop and the euro continues to rise. So what exactly is Europe doing right and what is America doing wrong?
Among other things, the European Union (EU) has taken the forefront [...]

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“This culture is so afraid of pleasure, of hedonism,” said Claire Burch, an 82-year-old filmmaker and author from Berkeley. She has been working to promote the legalization of marijuana for medical and recreational use through her documentary work.
Burch, along with other marijuana advocates and users, promotes marijuana as a natural and healthy alternative to costly [...]

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As the water supply dries up in Georgia, the snow falls early in the Rockies, and California gets burned up in a succession of wildfires the Bush Administration continues to pretend that the clear and present danger of climate change is unfounded and nonexistent. Meanwhile, I am still trying to figure out what was so [...]

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