Right now, it’s good to be a couch potato. This past week, Hollywood actor and recent Netflix star Kevin Spacey took to the stage at the Edinburgh International Television Festival for the keynote MacTaggart address.
I was born and raised in North Carolina. Raleigh, specifically. And maybe it was just the school I went to, or the neighborhood I grew up in, but most people I knew weren’t originally from North Carolina.
“You dropped a hundred and fifty grand on an education you could’ve got for a dollar-fifty in late charges at the public library.” That’s a quote from Matt Damon’s character in “Good Will Hunting,” one that always makes me cringe when I think about my own college career.
The payoffs are minimal and the risks are incalculable, at least for the United States. But for TransCanada, the Canadian company in charge of the Keystone Pipeline, the project has sizable value. There’s a lot of misinformation surrounding the Keystone Pipeline.
A few weeks ago, the United States and the world mourned the loss of a legend. Aug. 25, Neil Armstrong died, 43 years after being the first human being to step foot on the moon. But as one of only 12 men to walk on the moon, and only a few dozen more to escape the Earth’s atmosphere, his death should serve to remind us of our place in the universe, and our waning attempts to change it. America today is not the same country it was in the 1960s. We’re not trying to outpace a rival superpower, and we’re nowhere near as financially stable as we were four decades ago. Space travel, while once the collective vision of a nation, is now the casually ignored vision of the overly idealistic.
On Monday, April 23, Congress voted on CISPA, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Intelligence Act, and not surprisingly, it passed easily.
Tim Tebow is not ashamed to be a Christian. He’s not ashamed to admit he’s a virgin, and he’s not ashamed that God just might be a Broncos fan. And boy, does he like people to know it. Tebow has been called courageous for his candor, unafraid to wear his heart on his sleeve. He advocates traditional Christian values in a world that is supposedly against them.
North Carolina legislators are considering a bill that would allow companies to drill for natural gas in the state, despite decades of laws to the contrary.