RSS FeedThroughout the course of this year America has seen and gone through a lot with the rising unemployment, a plunging housing market and shaky (at best) economy. The one bright spot we achieved as united people was helping the seemingly unachievable become a reality when America sworn in their first African American president. Sense that [...]
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Getting Trashed Can Save Your Life… Apparently
September 25th, 2009 
Charles West I just read an article that suggest that having a little alcohol in your system or being tipsy-wips (as I like to say) during an accident may actually save your life. It states that researchers have found in each year that approximately 2 million people suffer from some sort of traumatic brain injury. Overall, 9.7 [...]
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Tags: alcohol, car accident, CNN, protecting the brain, trashed 
No Comments »From A Man's Perspective
September 2nd, 2009 Charles West Now, from my understanding most women are a little perplexed of why men cheat. But isn’t that the age o’ question? Well, let me try to put my perspective toward this question of why. First you must break down the logic of it all, you must and should know if your relationship is an “actual” [...]
One Million Reasons Why You Shouldn't Put Money In Your Mattress
June 13th, 2009 Charles West I found this article in the New York Post today, that said an Israeli woman mistakenly threw out a mattress that she said had almost $1 million inside. My first reaction was to wipe my eyes then look back at the article, my second reaction was “what the (BLEEP!)”, then finally I continued to read [...]
Street Eats
June 5th, 2009 Vadit Suwatcharapinun Food Trucks a.k.a Lunch Carts are all on the rage right now. This phenomenon has been in existence since the beginning of time, popular in other countries but starting to build a rep right here in the US of A. We’ve come a long way from wrinkly hot dogs, stale pretzels and dirty butter toasted [...]
Posted in Thought Provoking Tags: food trucks, Google, hot dogs, lunch carts, pretzels, Twitter, Wall Street Journal, WSJ No Comments »MTV Awards: What A Joke…
June 1st, 2009 Charles West Last night I punished myself by watching the MTV Movie Awards (for about an hour). It is mind boggling how much MTV has fallen off from the good graces of people like myself who grew up watching them through the 90′s. Throughout the first few awards, I seriously felt as if I were watching the [...]
Posted in TV, Thought Provoking Tags: Miley Cyrus, MTV, MTV awards, MTV awards 2009, Music, Nickelodeon, Nickelodeon kid choice awards, Twilight, Zach Efron 6 Comments »Boxers or Briefs?
May 18th, 2009 Vadit Suwatcharapinun Anyone remember that Hanes commercial from back in the day where two women were sitting on a park bench and guessing whether the men that walked by were wearing “boxers or briefs?” Then Michael Jordan comes along and somehow he stumps the women and reveals that he’s wearing boxer briefs! Well this article brought the [...]