Have you ever given someone the benefit of the doubt or the credit that he or she did not deserve in the first place? You knew that there was something really odd about this person, and yet you chose to be in a relationship or create a friendship with this individual,...
It may seem like a subject ripe for toilet humour - but whether you close the lavatory lid before you flush could have an impact on the spread of disease, according to an expert. Professor Mark Wilcox, Clinical...
While there are many ways in which civilization can be seen as being destructive of freedom, there are more meaningful ways in which it is conducive to freedom. By civilized I mean this: Being able to work out differences among one another. The more people can do that, the...
Tracy Lloyd Caza, 51, a local career criminal with 78 prior criminal convictions, is a man many may not be able to put a face to a name, yet have heard about in the media, which also hit the international media...
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The automotive industry for 2012 is looking forward to a banner year, with new models to meet everyones needs in their quest of one upmanship over their competitors in order get your money. Models,...
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Be well and do good; or Be good and do well.
This summarized the difference between sincere practicioners of American liberalism and American conservatism .
The serious conservatives want to (or claim to want to) follow a strong religious ethical code and to make lots of...
The idea that suffering leads to ennoblement of the soul has historically been a major fixture of Christian thought, especially Russian Orthodox thought. Like many other ideas, it is testable empirically; and, if there is no time or resources for an empirical study, then...
Burundi and Rwanda are sister countries. They were both part of a colonial administration district known as Urundi; and they possess the same ethnic makeup and very similar levels of population and land mass. After someone shot down the plane carrying the presidents of these...
Recent statements made by a British Columbia doctor, a Director for the BC Centre for Excellence will certainly stir up contraversy with his statement that HIV/AIDs infected persons undergoing treatment for the...
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There are some in Christianity who throw into question the idea that altruistic action is good out of the consideration that such action can be pleasurable, rewarding or fulfilling to the self.
My response is that such action should be pleasurable, rewarding, and fulfilling...
Camille Paglia, in addressing socialist tendencies of some American university students, said that the toilets in which they graffitied their slogans came from capitalism. There is a problem with that argument. There were toilets in the Soviet Union as well; and there are...
If you follow the news, you have likely stumbled upon the recent national news about of the outrageous amount of psychiatric drugging of foster children. The US General Accounting Office did a two-year investigation of the drugging of foster children (those with no parents...
After causing quite the raucous in a Finland bar last night (December 21), Adam Lambert took to Twitter (and math) to explain a little bit about what happened. Early this morning, the "If I Had You" singer tweeted, "Jetlag+Vodka=blackout. Us÷blackout=irrational...
This article is a parody. i cannot endorse any form of violence: mental, verbal, physical, or spiritual. Christians unite against the Muslim threat! Jews and Christians unite! Fight! Kill! Destroy Islam before it destroys you! Never before have we seen such a threat! Not the...
Smart competes; genius innovates.
Smart follows existing directions; genius creates new directions.
Smart learns from existing knowledge; genius creates knowledge that does not yet exist.
Smart learns how things work; genius figures out how they could work better.
Smart...