At lunch today I disgraced myself. I lost my temper and blew the head off some poor fund’s manager – metaphorically. So why did I get upset? Maybe I have […]
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Warm and Comfortable UGG Boots When heard of winter, cold may come in your mind at once. If you are ready for the coming of winter, you should never be […]
As a philosopher, I always wonder why the democratic system can yield this kind of incompetent, ignorant, over-ambitious, but always feel good presidents. In US, we got George W. Bush (sorry, Senior President Bush, Yes! Your eldest son!), In Taiwan they got two!
God bless human being!
2000 years is relatively short span within earth’s evolutionary time span.
An article from the New Scientist claims that people’s barriers to thinking more greenly are mostly psychological. People are more likely to adopt green attitudes if (1) they think their […]
In an age where people would rather speculate as to which classic novels would make the best video game rather than, you know, actually read the books, teachers and parents […]
What is the difference between Global Warming and Climate Change? The meanings of the terms have become hidden because of all the political innuendo attached to them.
If a bear does his business in the woods and nobody is there to see it, did it in fact happen? I am reminded of this parable amid calls from […]
New developments concerning two of my previous posts demonstrate how financial strategies (the same kinds we lament Wall Street has been using) are being implemented in the art world. The […]
The secret is out the bag…We are in a recession. Unfortunately there has been a tremendous amount of economic and personal suffering. My girl Helen Keller, okay not my girl […]
What is your definition of Art? Whatever it is, I am most certain Otis Green’s differs slightly. Take a look inside
In April 2007, Michael Vick was implicated in an unlawful dog fighting ring that operated over a period of five years. In August 2007, he plead guilty to felony charges, […]
The gossip mills go crazy for a celebrity dying before their time, and that was just as true in the 18th century as it is today. But instead of Michael […]
When it comes to thinking big, it doesn’t get much bigger than determining the most significant year in human history. The Economist’s MoreIntelligentLife.com has launched a poll asking visitors to […]
There’s a certain Wild West mentality that reigns supreme on the internet. That could all change with a precedent-setting court ruling on a recent name-calling incident. Former Australian Vogue cover […]
We’ve all heard enough tired analogies about money to fill a bank vault, but what happens when a recession, a lagging dollar, and general social malaise all conspire together? By […]
On its homepage, the State Department lists a number of countries that are unsafe for American tourists. But inevitably, tourists like the three hikers in northern Iraq find themselves on […]
Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation as the first Hispanic Supreme Court Justice is being hailed as a earth shattering breakthrough for minorities within the legal establishment. Wrong. It’s a diversion.
Miller-McCune is reporting today on a Personality and Social Psychologystudy indicating that a connection to nature not only has stress-reducing and healing qualities, but that it also makes us kinder […]
Hope was in the air at NASA last month, when, in addition to celebrating the 40th anniversary of landing the first man on the moon, the agency also got a […]
In last week’s Wall Street Journal, CEO of Whole Foods John Mackey argued against Obama’s health care plan and laid out eight of his own ideas for reform. “The last […]
There are plenty of signs of an impending apocalypse. Most recently, disgraced baseball star Jose Canseco announced he would be boxing Rodney King in September while TV reality dad Jon […]
I am based in Beirut this summer, and you can’t pick up a newspaper without reading about a Middle East country wracked by war, a Shiite-led insurgency, and Islamist extremism. […]
“Usually if I’m standing in front of an audience, they’ve got spikes in their faces. It means a lot for me to be here.” Last Thursday, Eli Roth, “torture porn” […]
For Yang, his adventurous attitude won the major. Sunday’s 14th, 16th and the 18th second hybrid shot killed the calculated Tiger.rnMarvelous textbook! Too calculated make him tense and down.rn
In my twenties, I was confused with my “wings.” I was left wing on some things, right wing on others. How left was I? I wanted to reform capitalism democratically […]
As U.S. forces begin their pullout from Iraq, tensions between the Kurdish region and Baghdad are rising. A nationwide census, as mandated by the constitution, has been held up again. […]
Delos M. Cosgrove, a heart surgeon, told the New York Times he’d stop hiring obese people if he could because being overweight is a “disease.”