Today's Quote To be nobody but yourself, in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle that any human being can fight--and never stop fighting. -E.E. Cummings Submitted By Alimac Regards Mike Shraga Increasing Customer Service With Sy...

CollegeTransitionFilter: Help a sad little CS student deal with figuring out where to live, what he can expect in this economy, and how to deal with an unexpected surprise for his besieged parents. I'm an undergrad senior going to a relatively prestigious research college in the rust belt. I transfe...

So you all want a story? ok. I will tell one maybe two. David and I were young then. And we were tentmates. This trip forced us to go without certain items for a period of days. We had to carry what we ate, so we did not shop for junk food or munchies. We all had huge packs that we carried our tents...

While I applaud the intent of the National Alliance on Mental Illness’s effort to “grade” the 50 states in the U.S. on their mental health care, the problem with such reports is that they are out-of-date and virtually useless from the moment they are published. The problem with the...

"The electric things have their life too. Paltry as those lives are." - Philip K. Dick (1928-1982), from Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? OXFORD, Ohio (ZP) -- Somewhere in time, on some drunken night of mayhem, he'd shattered his iPhone against a brick wall. Chunks of ancient red dust from some ...

As much as the internet has fueled innovation through the free exchange of ideas and collaboration with anyone across the globe, are we also remaking a market economy that only benefits those on top who control the mass lines of distribution? Wired considers the pitfalls of crowdsourcing - a phenome...

Mrs. Obama on the line at Miriam’s Kitchen; photo courtesy of Choice Photography. Last week, Michelle Obama made news by serving a meal at Miriam’s Kitchen, a DC social service agency. Miriam’s Kitchen feeds 4,000 people each year, mostly from fresh, wholesome ingredients. I caught up with...

I'm really tired of feeling like I need to walk on egg shells when I talk about real life issues with Christians. I'm really fed up with bankrupt Christianology that says it isn't ok to admit the things we struggle with. I've had it with the unspoken rule that says we should all put on our happy fac...

The ways our food is produced, packaged and shipped stand at the center of an ongoing debate about the health of our planet and ourselves, but the key to creating a sustainable system may rely on our collective ability to accept a realistic solution as a opposed to a perfect one. And this involves a...

Financial literacy workshop series helps college students master saving and control spending. Published in Wire Tap Magazine. (This story originally appeared on Black College Wire ) When he was 18, John Hope Bryant spent six months homeless. He lived in his car until he could find another place to l...