Disney’s recent attempts to “modernize” its classic fairy tale films are not acts of empowerment – they are acts of cultural desecration and ethnic erasure. These stories were never broken and didn’t need fixing. Yet, the company continues to strip them of their original cultural and ethnic roots, revise beloved characters beyond recognition, and alienate the very audience that made Disney a global powerhouse in the first place. There’s a reason these movies are called classics. Stories like Snow White,

These are my ideas which are always subject to change. You are free to disagree with me but I hope you’ll think about these changes because I think they would drastically improve our lives. Here is my Rx for society: Switch to the fixed calendar and metric system, and rearrange our clocks. In the fixed calendar, numerical dates would fall on the same day of the week each month and we’d have simple 28-day months that align more closely with

The way we tell time is confusing and makes no sense! Here are the top reasons why we should rearrange the numbers on our clocks and change the confusing way we tell time: Why do we begin the day with the number 12 when it’s the number 1 that signifies a new beginning? We should begin the day with 1 and end the day with 12. Also, why should a day start in the middle of the night rather than

The Fixed Calendar is perfect: The word “month” aptly comes from “moon” because months are supposed to be based on the lunar cycle, which is about 29.5 days long. However, to stay in tune with a solar year of 365 days for the earth revolving around the sun, we would have 13 months of only 28 days each, totaling 364 days. Plus we would have an extra day at the end of the year called “Year Day” to make it