A lot of people equate homosexuality with effeminacy or not being a real man. Quite simply, they must not have known too many homosexuals.Clearly there are people among the homosexual community who are in fact effeminate, or who feel closer to women than they do to men....
After Mel Gibson's film Passion, many people became anti-Jewish who had previously not been anti-Jewish. We are seeing a lot of hateful rants against Jews on places such as the Internet, and the neo-Nazis have been capitalizing on the anti-Jewish sentiment to spread their...
Very few things threaten people more than having their worldview challenged. And when something arises that threatens their worldview, the first reaction is to destroy it.We see this with Hurricane Carter. Since he was a child he was seen as a dangerous individual. What made...
Nelson Mandela has entered history as one of the great political leaders of all time. As the memory serves, he had a wife named Winnie Mandela who acted like a complete brat and caused scandals all the time. This case is instructive for other man-woman relationships.When a...
In John Steinbeck's novel The Pearl, a Mexican fisherman named Kino retrieved a huge pearl. As he attempted to get the pearl to the market, the corrupt entities that ran Mexico at the time went after him and slaughtered his family. The book ends with Kino returning to the...
Hell is this: an inversion of truth - an inversion of value - a swamp, an inverted palace, with toads at the top. Consier hell to be mathematical opposite of heaven. All that is true is held to be lie, all that is lie is held to be truth. The good is seen as evil, the...
The purveyors of the authoritarian model of raising children like to claim that indulgent upbringing breeds criminals and monsters. The purveyors of the indulgent model of raising children like to claim that authoritarian upbringing breeds violent people who cannot...
"Recent news has come out that yet another self-professed Hillary Clinton “supporter” has jumped aboard theMcCain Puss- err, Bandwagon. This time, the naive wench is Lynn Forester de Rothschild, a prominent member of the DNC’s Platform Committee who, in her moments of...
It is great to see those in a position of celebrity showing off new green products. Though, this is clearly publicity for Honda, it is spreading the word on future technologies that will replace gasoline...
"Is there more to precious stones than being the perfect way to display your wealth, power and status? Should you invest in precious stones? Why not, but after you understand some key issues with regard to such...
John McCain, who has had trouble convincing the religious right of his Christian credentials, went to Billy Graham's Blue Ridge mountaintop retreat in western North Carolina to meet with the powerful preacher...
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Many years ago the courts in the U.S. gave clear interpretations of the laws concerning search of personal information devices: devices with limited amounts of memory could be searched by police without a warrant - but search of devices with large amounts of memory...
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I would not call it 12 Steps to Heaven, maybe 12 Steps to a Clear Mind would be more appropriate for 'Drawings that Will Change Your Life' by Ralph Perrine on Change This. I was especially attracted to 'Balancing your Life'.
Ever met a 'mission statement' full of platitudes and jargon or worse even you were one of the guilty parties who wrote it, hope is on the way. Thanks to Keeping Jargon at Bay by Emma Jacobs (Financial Times), I learned of the existence of Dark Angels. This is not a...
"A new scanner has been unveiled which can produce 3D body images of unprecedented clarity while reducing radiation by some 80%.
The new CT machine takes large numbers of X-ray pictures, and combines them using computer technology to produce the final detailed images.
It also...
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