Inner Beauty and Outer Beauty

The false dichotomy between inner beauty and outer beauty has been a source of confusion to many. This is to make the clarifications needed to overcome this confusion. The two concepts - inner beauty and outer beauty - refer to very different and unrelated things. A better...

Attitudes of Hell

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...

"Conventional wisdom", science, and conmen

My writing on a number of issues, such as challenging the conventional explanation of the fall of the Roman Empire, has been described as presumptious. The response is that, when conventional explanations are false, challenging them and replacing them is a service done to...

Bill Clinton says wife is victim of a ‘cover up’

Bill Clinton comes out swinging for wife Hillary Clinton, who for weeks has essentially been told to go home and back to the kitchen to make way for Barack Obama. Clinton (Bill) has a key point: is the Democratic...

Microsoft Offers One Arcade Title after Xbox Live Holiday Problems

Not that I really expect anything huge from Microsoft, but this is just insulting. Owing to the large amount of issues people were experiencing over the holidays (issues connecting to live in the first place,...

Christmas Parade Bans Politicians From Floats

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorTwo things all Politicians love is jumping on Bandwagons and scrambling on top of Parade Floats, especially  at Christmas season with lots of fanfare and people...

80 of the most dangerous geeks in the world

I recently met with a group of philanthropists and investors who are looking for a billion dollar project that was worth funding.  This group might just have one:"Here’s 80 of the most dangerous geeks in the world. Otherwise known as attendees at the Linux Kernel...

These Tanks make Cookies not War, Tank Goodness

Like many others the Minneapolis based Tank family started baking cookies for fun, friends and neighbors.  At a certain point, they had the zany idea of turning it in a business and named it Tank Goodness of course.More songs about Cookies not War on Serge the Concierge

Afew Good Men

Try imagining what it was like to be a monk in the olden days of India: you had neither valuables nor reserves; travelling from one village to another on foot you preached the dharma to laymen with hope that one...

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