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My friend Tracey, the Suburban Diva, wrote a great piece in honor of the Valentine’s holiday. You can read it here.I liked it so much that I read it to my-Wife-The-Shrink last night, then left her a note this morning (read the essay). She loved it!Happy Valentine’s Day, all you lovers — of whatever age.
The website Reverent.org puts artistic wet blankets to the test, asking them to tell the difference between fine art and art made by apes.
…when we’ve finished offing ourselves…
(CNN) — Newspapers in Denmark Wednesday reprinted the
controversial cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed that sparked worldwide
protests two years ago.
The move came one day after Danish authorities arrested three people
who allegedly were plotting a “terror-related assassination” of Kurt
Westergaard, one of the cartoonist behind the drawings.
Berlingske Tidende, one of the newspapers involved in the
republication, said: “We are doing this to document what is at stake in
this case, and to unambiguously back and support the freedom of speech
that we as a newspaper always will defend,” in comments reported by The
Associated Press.
Dr. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, has been severely criticized by fellow Anglicans and is facing growing calls for his resignation, including from members of the Anglican Church, over his comments on Islamic Shari’a law.
Williams sparked a major controversy last week after saying in a BBC Radio interview that the adoption of parts of Shari’a law was “unavoidable” in Britain. However, he has insisted he was not advocating a parallel set of laws. >>More>>
Welcome to the official website for the FIRST EVER Manga adaptation of the world’s bestselling book.You think you know what’s in the Bible? Think again!
Internet participation has exploded across blogs, social networks and citizen media sites. At the same time, lawsuits with sometimes scary damages claims are sparking anxiety. Whether you’re a blogger, Facebook member, hyperlocal citizen journalist, or occasional Web site contributor, how can you protect yourself against legal risk?
We talk about reality a lot. According to Princeton’s Wordnet, reality is
All of these definitions lack one thing: precision. They all imply varied meanings — subjective meanings. To a child, reality is one thing; to an adult, something else. >>More>>
“…but when I became a man I put away childish things.”
Too bad.
Now I’m 6’3″, weigh about 215, and I’m ashamed to tell you what kind of shape I’m in. I know what I need to do, preach it to others, but I rarely do it myself. It’s all about using the human body the way it was meant to be used.
We were designed to walk long distances, eat small high-carbohydrate snacks of fruit and berries, interspersed with a good deal less protein, and occasionally gorge on fat when someone managed to kill a large animal. (That’s where the hard-wired taste for fatty foods came from.) We ate roots and berries, threw rocks at rabbits, and walked to the next spot where we might get food. All the time. Year in and year out.
We died because we got injured, or in a fight, or because our teeth wore out from the gritty food, but it’s a hundred-dollar bet we didn’t have heart attacks.
Salt Lake Tribune – Everyday ethics: Sunday beliefs needn’t negate Monday’s scholarship
I’m a history professor – my period is 1500-1800 – with an M.A. student who wants to pursue a doctorate. While she is smart and capable, she is very religious, subscribing to the ”young Earth” theory that the world is only 6,000 years old. I am to work with her for a year and then recommend her to Ph.D. programs. Must I do so if I find her views incongruent with those of historians?
Eileen Flanagan writes in her blog:
“When my mother was dying, I wrote about her regularly on this blog, but since her passing, I haven’t mentioned her much. Life moved on, and the children and my work regained my attention. I was efficient in settling her estate and I thought in settling my grief. I figured I’d had a year to grieve while I was watching her slowly waste away from lung disease. I figured that made it easier when the end finally came. Her prayers were finally answered. She was at peace.
So I’m not sure what it means that I’ve been dreaming about my mother. …”
My Turn: I’m Not Who You Think I Am
Being confused for every other Asian woman used to be maddening—until I fell into the same trap.
Ending Sexual Harassment On Campus
Feminist Law Professors points to a new paper by Fatima Goss Graves of the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy that makes the case for a new standard for policies that protect students against sexual harassment in schools–essentially, a return to standards established under the 1972 Title IX Act, which prohibits discrimination by schools that receive federal funds.
Was Ledger on Too Many Meds? | Newsweek Health | Newsweek.com
Why did the actor have so many prescription drugs in his possession? And was he properly informed of the potentially deadly result of combining the drugs or ingesting more than the prescribed amount at one time? NEWSWEEK’s Jennifer Barrett posed those questions to Charles Barber, a lecturer in psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine whose new book, “Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry is Medicating a Nation” (Pantheon), was published this week.
