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Antidote To The Age Of Anxiety: Alan Watts On Happiness. How To Live With...
Alan: Watts was, in many ways, a remarkable man. That said, I am always somewhat apprehensive recommending people whose sexual lives impress me as "dubious.""How we spend our days is, of course, how we...
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How Art Can Save Your Soul
“Art holds out the promise of inner wholeness,” British philosopher Alain de Botton wrote in Art as Therapy (public library), one of the best art books of 2013. He expounds the premise of the book in...
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The Culture, Causes, And Costs Of Anxiety
"Anxiety … makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you," Anaïs Nin wrote. "Anxiety may be compared with dizziness. He whose eye happens to look down the yawning abyss becomes...
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How To Live: Lessons From Michel De Montaigne, Godfather of Blogging
Michel de MontaigneWikipediahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_de_Montaigne***by Maria PopovaDon’t worry about death, pay attention, read a lot, give up control, embrace imperfection.“Living has yet...
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Henry James on Aging, Memory, and What Happiness Really Means
by Maria Popova“I have led too serious a life; but that perhaps, after all, preserves one’s youth.”What does it take to live a good life, to flourish, to be happy? The art-science of happiness has been...
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How To Lower Your “Worryability”: Italo Calvino’s 1950 New Year’s Resolution
by Maria Popova“I would like this to signal the end of ‘wasted angst’ in my life.”What does it mean to live well, live fully? For most of us, it’s an intricate balancing act that involves enough...
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Chris Christie's Aides' Emails Would Have Remained Secret But For "The Record"
Gov. Christie and Chief of Staff, Bridget Anne Kelly***WASHINGTON — Personal emails at the center of the brewing scandal involving New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie might have remained secret, had the...
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Depressed And Angered By Aide's Betrayal, Chris Christie Takes To Bed
Yes, this is a cheap shot.Nevertheless, I post the photo to focus attention on Governor Christie's cheap shots - twice at the expense of public school teachers who deserved praise rather than...
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Pope Francis Looks To Haiti, Burkina Faso For New Cardinals Focused On Poor
In this July 12, 2013, file photo, Archbishop Orani Joao Tempesta of Rio de Janeiro is among 19 new cardinals named by Pope Francis on Sunday. Above, Tempesta gives a sermon last summer in front of the...
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Tom Toles Cartoon: GOP Remedy For Obamacare
Alan: The very day the Obamacare "train wreck" was supposed to happen, Obamacare dropped out of the news altogether.By and large, Conservatives are delusional...
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E.J. Dionne On Benghazibridge
N.J. Governor Chris ChristieReally good at pointing the finger."Why Chris Christie Cannot Win The 2016 Presidential Election"http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/01/why-gov-chris.html***Chris...
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Christie Still Top GOP Pick For 2016. Followed By 3 Conservative Bozos
Mel Evans/AP - New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has fired a top aide who engineered political payback against a town mayor, saying she lied.390Share to FacebookShare on TwitterShare on LinkedInAdd to...
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Maryland To Serve As Obamacare Test Case For Enforced Cost Care Containment
"The Obama administration is set to announce Friday an ambitious health-care experiment that will make Maryland a test case for whether aggressive government regulation of medical prices can...
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Obamacare Sign Up Among The Young And Healthy
"Colorado has done excellent record keeping on the age of its enrollees. It might make a better bellwether for how things are going when it comes to reaching those under 35. What you see, in the graph...
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"The Vicious Cycle Of Income Inequality," New York Times
"Inequality in the United States has been increasing sharply for more than four decades and shows no signs of retreat. In varying degrees, it's been the same pattern in other countries. The economy has...
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Income Inequality Fosters Unmarried Cohabitation (NYT)
Alan: Republicans are unusually adamant that we must encourage marriage over cohabitation. I agree - heartily.But don't expect conservatives to put money where their mouth is.Expect them to exacerbate...
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How Much Does The Federal Government Spend On Welfare?
"The federal government spends just $212 billion per year on what we could reasonably call "welfare."...[C]onservatives complain that we should have less welfare and more opportunity and civil society,...
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Former Head Of Israel's Central Bank Will Join Federal Reserve
Smart CookieWikipediahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Fischer***"President Obama on Friday took another significant step toward making his mark on the powerful Federal Reserve, announcing he will...
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Jobless Rate Down To 6.7%. (Why Are Americans Dropping Out Of Work Force?)
"The Labor Department reported that the country added a meager 74,000 jobs in December -- less than half what many analysts had expected. The unemployment rate dropped to 6.7 percent, but mostly...
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Scientists Use Sound To Levitate
Japanese scientists have made hundreds of tiny plastic balls float around like miniature spaceships.BY IAN STEADMAN PUBLISHED 08 JANUARY 2014 Today’s news from the world of Awesome Science comes from...
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