Simon Biddle-Snead

Everyone has something they’re good at whether it be baking, playing pool, or making gunpowder. The Charlottesville Trade School offers a medium to learn interesting, possibly off-the-wall skills from your peers. Money is never something that is discussed when you participate in a class, you offer one of your skills in return for the knowledge you absorb from the class. If you’ve been shy about your intense kite flying hobby, then this is the place to help you get your love of making kites out into the world. (or anything else, for that matter.Read more...

The Americans who suffer most from starvation are not ragged and gaunt, but actually excessively obese. Take the recent film Precious for example; there is a segment where Precious steals a family sized container of fried chicken for breakfast just to throw it up later, and says she stole it because she was starving. This is what was dubbed “The Obesity-Hunger Paradox” (1), and is the relatively new understanding of the nutritional and economic causes behind obesity.Read more...

The UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) is the fastest growing and most notoriously violent sports organization in the country. As the sport grows, so too do its subcultures, the newest of which are evangelical Christian groups determined to use MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) as a tool of reaching out to possible converts, particularly young men.Read more...

Barack Obama is inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States. The world watches as the first black president is sworn into the presidential office; news reports stated that not a single arrest was reported inauguration day. Thousands of liberal moms cried in happiness.Read more...