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Hot and Cold Emotions Make Us Poor Judges WE TEND TO EXAGGERATE THE POWER OF WILL POWER By Shankar Vedantam Monday, August 6, 2007; A03 Why would David Vitter, a U.S. senator with four young children, have gotten involved with a seedy escort service? Why would Michael Vick, a gifted NFL...

Taking advantage of a brief lull in the action while some of my male colleagues were out on a military embed, I tried to follow up on a promise I'd made to myself when I arrived on this latest assignment to Iraq – to try to find out who is the Iraqi woman circa 2007? Unable to stray too far...

Joe (guy in the middle) lives one block away from me with a sale sign. Lives half the year and maybe all year around soon in Belize. He just had a book signing in his hometown of Winchester. http://www.joebageant.com/joe/2007/04/joe_talks_about.html...

Remember the RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER or TINTERN ABBEY ? Remember Coleridge ? Remember Wordsworth ? Coleridge was a laudanum socialist wacko who coined the term Pantisocracy, meaning power for all. And this society was to live in the Quaker banks of the Susquehanna. William Penn...

http://www.slate.com/id/2164909/entry/2165121/ I now understand why Ecclesiastes is the favorite Bible book of people who don't much believe in God. It offers the only viable competition to the Bible's main theme of heaven, redemption, and judgment. If you believe in God, you can explain...

By Scott McCredie for MSN Health & Fitness Freelance It started a decade ago with Dolly the Scottish sheep, the world’s first cloned mammal. Then a year later came Lucy the Canadian mouse, the first mammal with artificially implanted genes that could be inherited by her offspring. Since...

Wonder why white people don't come up with hip phrases. Blacks do. Whites say "hey" as in hello. Hmmm...

I'm a Republican Conservative and I'm wondering whether this surge of troops is going to accomplish anything. I understand the rationale to try one more time, rather than give up. I understand that the righteous world doesn't give a damn about really giving Iraq a 2nd chance, prefering instead...

New York City proper has 8 million people. Virginia has 7.6 million people. If there was no electoral college, one city would equal one state's power. One man one vote would impose an urban life style of thinking. At least with the electoral college the rural and outer-urban has a...

Will power. Yeah right. Every plan based on Will Power is a plan to fail. You think God is a Myth ? Add Will Power to that list of Myths that need continual Debunking. Think about it. Will Power implies that you have the strength to say NO continually all day, day after day. Only a...

The Buddhists say that two arrows always fly towards you. Whether they hit or not is another matter. The first arrow is the bad thing that happens to you. The second arrow... You know what it is. It is what you do to yourself after the bad thing that happens to you.

SPIEGEL ONLINE - January 10, 2007, 05:09 PM URL: http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,457002,00.html FIGHTING FOR THEIR SURVIVAL A Christian Exodus from the Arab World By Amira El Ahl, Daniel Steinvorth, Volkhard Windfuhr and Bernhard Zand Violence, terrorism and the...

Let's look at the styles of arguments often employed here. You've heard of syllogisms. And you have certainly seen the following patterns displayed here: The Case of the Good Cause: No GOOD CAUSE will submit to the issue of shared resources. Shared resources is another topic. Not relevant. Not...

Venezuela's Leap Backward Hugo Chávez steers his country toward the socialism of the 20th century. Wednesday, January 10, 2007; A12 BEFORE HIS reelection as Venezuelan president last month, Hugo Chávez declared that his goal was to receive 10 million votes and thereby a mandate to greatly...

Scraping by on $150,000 a year Why is it that no matter how much you earn, you can't make ends meet? The answer is often right before your eyes. By Money magazine If she thought it would really fix her family's finances, Amy Schuett would make it her New Year's resolution to squeeze every...

I make $6.50 an hour. Am I poor? I put this in an international thread, because how we view rich vs poor and how we respond to it in our own personal lives is much more important than the vacuous grand standing politics that attend to this matter. Interesting article: Here's how I...

I originally hail from Philadelphia but have lived in Virginia these last 3 years. The Giants gave us a close game, and have many stars on their team, but...the Eagles won. GO EAGLES !!

"Science's Breakthrough of the Year: The Poincare Theorem Solved: In 2006, researchers closed a major chapter in mathematics, reaching a consensus that the elusive Poincare Conjecture, which deals with abstract shapes in three-dimensional space, had finally been solved.... "The Poincare...

A Journey of the Heart Before Their Pilgrimage to Mecca, Muslims Navigate the Spiritual and the Practical By Dina ElBoghdady Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, December 28, 2006; C01 Don't wander off because if you get lost, you may end up in prison for days before someone even asks...

A reminder. Y'all probably know. But say there's a guy name Abu Omar. This means Abu Omar is the Father of his FIRST SON named Omar. In Arafat's case he was the Father of a First Son who everyone knew had died, and so everytime they said his name, it was with a greater understanding than...