In 2004, Mark Zuckerberg launched TheFacebook; Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia were admitted to NATO; The First and Second Battle of Fallujah took place; The Summer Olympics took place in Athens, Greece; The Boston Red Sox broke the Curse of the Bambino and won their 6th World Series; George W. Bush was… Continue reading The rise of social media: A look back at 2004
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A fantastic fear of sin
A Touch of Sin (2013) This medley of vignettes highlights the underbelly of contemporary Chinese society. A billion people live in China, but the news is so carefully controlled by the state most outsiders have no clue what is happening there. It’s both disturbing and reassuring they have as many psychopaths and murderers as the West. In America, every salacious… Continue reading A fantastic fear of sin