Jungle Bloggers

David P. Kronmiller, Editor-In-Chief
Notes from the Jungle
Joyce Chen Blogging from New York.
Tharuna Devchand Blogging from South Africa.
Sarah Jawaid
Blogging from Washington, D.C.
J Lampinen
Our resident comic strip, Congo & Steve
Jeremy Olsen
Director of Development and occasional commentator.
Dan Rickabus
On things musical.

Plus past staff and guest writers, including J Day, Scott Martin, and Bronson Picket.

New home, old home.

This is our new home. For past video, audio, and blogs, you can still visit:
the previous incarnation of the Avocado Jungle.
March 5, 2010, at 7:36 pm — Blogs / / / /

Read it today, gone tomorrow

In the public eye, divorce has become a speed bump. It’s a tedious process that is more of a hassle than an emotional ordeal. Time used to be that divorces were a rarity, deemed a sort of failure on both persons’ parts; now it is an ugly sometimes-necessity for people who know better than to try to work it out. What this teaches children, and subconsciously ingrains into the minds of young adults everywhere, is that there is an easy alternative to the strife of marriage: get out.

February 27, 2010, at 9:45 pm — Blogs / / /

Attention: Please turn off your cell phones

In a time when ADHD diagnoses are as frequent as the release of new iPhone apps, it’s hard to determine whether technology is causing shorter attention spans or whether heightened senses are demanding more and more distractions. The chicken-and-egg dilemma is something that is, however, perhaps secondary to the mere fact that it exists.

February 17, 2010, at 7:00 am — Audio | Blogs | audio podcast / / /

On government: You are what you think you are

Our government in the form of law enforcement and committees is often vilified. It’s “The Man,” the cultural stick in the mud, the overbearing control that people must rise up against. Call it what you will, but the government as it is often viewed today has a foreboding quality to it, a “Big Brother” kind of blank-face authority that heartlessly implements rules in order to put a damper on free will. This is, however, where definition is often misconstrued and perception misaligned. Podcast available.