Friday, April 30, 2010
The Three Flavors of Personal Finance Advice
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Designer Jeans are Extensions of Ego
Is this a joke? $345 for a pair of jeans! Some of us are hopelessly out of touch.
Saturday, April 24, 2010
After 2 Years Sandwich Board Guy Gets Job-No Problem
This is how life is.
Friday, April 23, 2010
Lessons Learned from Franklin Graham and the Pentagon's National Day of Prayer
Well it looks like the Franklin Graham-Pentagon National Day of Prayer imbroglio is over. After complaints from Muslim participants and a formal objection by a religious rights group, the Pentagon Chaplain's Office disinvited Graham from the May 6th service.
Perhaps the National Day of Prayer Task Force, which organizes the yearly Pentagon event, acted unwisely in selecting as its Honorary Chairman Graham, who has called Islam an "evil and wicked religion"; has said Muslims are "enslaved by their religion"; and has confirmed his opinion yet again that he believe that Islam is "just horrid."
The decision was especially ill-taken, given that the National Day of Prayer is meant to be an ecumenical endeavor.
Sunday, April 18, 2010
A Non-imist's Rebuttal to "5 Ways to Become an Optimist"
You have your optimists; these are the-glass-is-half-full people. You have your pessimists; these are the-glass-is-half-empty people.
Friday, April 16, 2010
Spiritual Clean-up on Aisle Five
The Good News Gazette is reporting on a Washington Post story about Rev. Anita Naves, who has taken up shop . . . well . . . inside a shop.
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Father of Slain Marine a Modern-Day Job
Albert Snyder, father of Lance Cpl. Matthew A. Snyder (pictured), a slain Marine whose 2006 funeral was picketed by members of the infamous Westboro Baptist Church, is a modern-day Job.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Vatican Makes Peace with The Beatles-Folly or Genius?
"I read the news today, oh boy!"
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Fake Fake Things? Coffee Cup a Concession to Ugly Post-Modern World
Are you kidding me? Has the world fallen in on itself? Something's gone haywire here.
Mindy McCready Sex Tape and the PR Stunt
Here we go again. Another CD release, another sex tape faux-scandal publicity campaign. And Fox News has taken the bait with an exclusive story.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Vatican Publicists Could Learn from Their Hollywood Peers
The AP is reporting that the Vatican has launched a counter-offensive against what it sees as wrongful accusations alleging that Pope Benedict XVI was in some way complicit in cases of sex abuse by priests in Ireland, the United States and elsewhere.
Millionaire Gives Away Fortune, Keeps Next to Nothing
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Top Ten Signs You May Be Over-Identified With Your Team
The AP has reported for years on a Minnesota farmer who has vowed he won't shave until the Vikings win the Super Bowl. 97-year-old Emmet Pearson's beard remains in place and 36-years long. He made the vow in 1974, the last time the Vikings made it to the big game.
While Mr. Pearson's stick-to-it-iveness is laudable--people these days don't keep vows like they used to--and funny, it points up the sort of identification with groups like sports teams that Eckhart Tolle in his seminal book on spirituality A New Earth says is one from the ego's playbook.
"One of the ways in which the ego attempts to escape the unsatisfactoriness of personal selfhood," Tolle writes, "is to enlarge and strengthen its sense of self by identifying with a group--a nation, political party, corporation, institution, sect, club, gang, football team."
Bingo! Isn't that Farmer Pearson in a nutshell? This list takes in a lot of us.
What sports teams accomplish or fail to accomplish really has nothing whatsoever to do with us. And yet we behave as if it does.
Here are ten signs you may be over-identifying with your team this Super Bowl:
Friday, April 2, 2010
Anna Paquin's Bisexuality Is Revealing
Monday, March 29, 2010
There But For the Grace of God?
According to a New York Times report, Times Square is down to its last homeless person.
Friday, March 26, 2010
Black Marriage Day A Celebration of Suffering
Black Marriage Day is the 28th of March. What to wear? What to wear? Though I'm neither black nor married (with no prospects even), I'm pretty excited about it.
Thursday, March 25, 2010
No Role for Wisdom in American Jurisprudence
Back in Solomon's day, judges were lauded for their wisdom. Not so today.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
The Spiritual Implications of Fad Diets
Lot's of weight-loss diets out there promise to "beat the street," so to speak, in terms of taking off the weight. Shine from Yahoo! has identified five diets that don't perform as advertised.
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Will Miley Succumb to the Child Actor Curse?
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Enlightened Billionaire Warren Buffett
Warren Buffett may be rich and famous, but that doesn't mean he's resting on his laurels.
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