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Komen’s foundation and Planned Parenthood
The Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundation is in the news for making a decision regarding the distribution of its charitable dollars to Planned Parenthood and then changing its mind. From what Dinner Topics has collected, it appears that the group was always providing funding in the form of helping monetarily with breast cancer [...]
Random acts of kindness on a feelgood Friday
Are you one of those people who always has good intentions when it comes to charity or helping others, but never gets around to it? Well get inspired, because one man named Ryan took it upon himself to perform a kind act every single day this year and document it. His website is called 366RandomActs.org, and [...]
For Sale – Dinner Topics
Many of you have probably noticed less frequent posts recently, but thanks to the backlog of relevant posts (well over 600!), Dinner Topics remains a site you can visit every day and still learn something new and interesting. While there is plenty of value left in a site like this, it is getting more and more difficult to personally [...]
Fear of Friday the 13th
Many of you have heard of triskaidekaphobia which is the fear of the number 13, but what about people who fear Friday the 13th in its entirety? Those people suffer from paraskevidekatriaphobia. With today’s calendar turning to that fateful date, sufferers might also want to know this word in case they are writing to someone [...]
Journalistic Failures
It’s getting harder and harder to read any kind of news without a biased slant or even blatant false claims to grab attention. Even on a blog such as this one where the entries are personalized, we still make an effort to provide you with facts and let you choose your side. Too often nowadays a [...]
Kim Jong-il dies; explaining the hyphen
North Korea’s ruler since 1994, Kim Jong-il, died over the weekend from a heart attack. You likely heard that already. You are also probably aware that North Korea is a volatile state with a poor record of human rights and things aren’t likely to get better as the reigns are passed on to Jong-il’s son Jong-un. At Dinner [...]
Matching your primary candidate
Whether you’re a Republican or a Democrat, it’s hard not to get caught up in the drama of the upcoming Republican primaries. Newt Gingrich has plenty of historical baggage but is currently leading the pack heading into Iowa in the new year, Ron Paul is in second and closing in fast but gets virtually no [...]
Sequel weekend approaching
At a time when much of the population is out and about celebrating the holidays by spending money they may or may not have on loved ones, the cineplex has chosen to keep the choices fairly mindless by offering us a bevy of sequels to be released Friday. Tops on the Dinner Topics Meter (DTM, [...]
