Most of us are familiar with the fable of the man on the roof who turns away repeated rescue attempts because of faith..
SPOILER ALERT: There’s no sequel to the story.
Here we are, entering another summer season that will do its best to knock off the reigning champ as the “Hottest Year EVER”, which was last year. While it’s easy to remain unimpressed by statistics we don’t understand that were compiled from research by people we teased and excluded from the reindeer games of our apparently robust and thriving social lives, …

For years, there’s been a fair amount of carping about the so-called “culture wars” in America without much explanation as to the parties involved or what was at stake. For the layperson, it was pretty easy to break it down to a battle between “smart” and “stupid” and while no one seemed to stand up for the stupid side, the seemingly one-sided brawl somehow still raged on. The fact is that over the past decade and change the sabers have been rattling, the pistol magazines have been loaded with hollow point rounds, and the brass knuckles have been sized and fitted for a real fight. After years of “Wolf!” being cried, the culture wars are upon us.

This week will be remembered as the week people got their excuse to not give a damn about global warming. Emails have leaked worldwide that suggest that some of the numbers on climate change have been juked. Now all the people who were too lazy to push their countries to do anything real about the situation can now view their cowardice as clairvoyance.
Bull.
Predictions are predictions. No matter what the field of science, there’s no way to determine exactly when or how most phenomena will occur. What we do know is …

MetARockStar is very proud to present excerpts from the written experiences of our friend, Amanda Miller, during her service in the Peace Corps the past two years. Amanda was stationed in Namibia, Africa, and we eagerly await each dispatch she sends us so that we may share with our readers what she has seen and learned overseas.