Aug
13
The Case Against Perfection: Michael Sandel
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Jul
6
Kindergarchy
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Oh the guilty little pleasure I take from pieces of writing bashing contemporary child rearing… ..smug little chuckle
” Despite all the effort that has been put into shaping these kids, things, somehow, don’t seem quite to have worked out. Who would have thought that so much love in the home would result in such far [...]
Jun
16
James Randi at Google
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Everything Randi
Jun
5
Oral Sex Is The New Goodnight Kiss
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The book and documentary film by Sharlene Azam, are about the recent emergence of teenage prostitution rings in affluent suburbs. Attractive, white, high school girls – 13, 14 and 15 years old – are having sex with up to 7 men a night, several times a week, so they can go shopping. Other girls are [...]
May
18
Slow is Beautiful
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“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the seaâ€
/Antoine de Saint-Exupery/
Cecile Andrews on Slow is Beautiful: New Visions of Community, Leisure, and Joie de Vivre.
Apr
17
The Year of Living Biblically
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A.J. Jacobs talks about his book “The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible”:
From the offical website the most unexpectedly wise and life-enhancing rules:
Keep the sabbath. As a workaholic (I check my emails in the middle of movies), I learned the beauty of an enforced [...]
Apr
15
Susan Jacoby on The Age of American Unreason
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“The debasement of the nation’s speech is evident in virtually everything broadcast and podcast on radio, television, and the Internet. In this true, all-encompassing public square, homogenized language and homogenized thought reinforce each other in circular fashion. As George Orwell noted in 1946, “A man may take to drink because he feels himself a failure, [...]
Apr
8
Parenting – Why Are We Afraid to Let Go?
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“Armed with hyperconcern and microscrutiny, parents are going to ludicrous lengths to take the lumps and bumps out of life for their children today. However well-intentioned, their efforts have the net effect of making kids more fragile. That may be why the young are breaking down in record numbers or staying stuck in endless adolescence.”
A [...]
Apr
6
Political Correctness – A God That Failed?
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Complete video
Mar
15
Dolphins and their magnificent bubble rings
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