Mark Twain On Masturbation
"If you must gamble away your life sexually, don’t play a Lone Hand too much."
View ArticleShackleton, Mead And Steinbeck On Exploration
Shackleton's Journey: History's Most Heroic Polar Expedition, Illustrated"It is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all."***Life Is...
View ArticleThe Catholic Church Learns To Love Oscar Wilde
By praising Oscar Wilde in its official paper, the Vatican has admitted a little more honesty into its account of the lives we live."The Long Conversion of Oscar Wilde, Deathbed...
View ArticleOscar Wilde: "The Pure And Simple Truth..."
"The terrible thing about our time is precisely the ease with which theories can be put into practice. The more perfect, the more idealistic the theories, the more dreadful is their realization. We...
View ArticleOscar Wilde: "We Are Each Our Own Devil...."
Alan: I'm reminded of John Lennon's comment that "Reality leaves a lot to the imagination."Fortunately we are a work in progress.
View ArticleConference Call. What "Highly Productive People" Actually Do At Work
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYu_bGbZiiQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player
View ArticleDecontextualization Is More Demonic Than Frank Falsehood
The second frame is verbatim contraction of the first.It is also diabolical falsification.***"There are two ways of lying, as there are two ways of deceiving customers. If the scale registers 15...
View ArticleOscars 2014: Complete Winners' List
Sandra Bullock stars in the film "Gravity."Warner Bros. PicturesNEXT VIDEO2014 Oscar Predictions: Who Will Win Big?AUTO START: ON | OFFBy MICHAEL ROTHMANMICHAEL ROTHMANMore From Michael »Entertainment...
View ArticleStudy: $90 Wine Actually Tastes Better Than The Same Wine At $10
Wine: It really tastes better if it costs more.CalTech and Stanford researchers have seen direct evidence that increasing the price of the same wine significantly increases the pleasure we get from...
View ArticlePutin In Ukraine: Never Interrupt Your Enemy When He Is Making A Mistake
Napoleon BonaparteBy David Ignatius, Published: March 2, 2014Napoleon is said to have cautioned during an 1805 battle: “When the enemy is making a false movement we must take good care not to interrupt...
View ArticleHow About An Oscar For "Most Prophetic Film?"
JavertTony Perkins***Alan: There should be an Oscar for "Most Prophetic Film" in the original sense of "prophetic" deriving from propheteia, Greek for "the gift of interpreting the will of the gods."...
View ArticleLupita Nyong'o's Best Supporting Actress Acceptance Speech
Extraordinary words from the 12 Years a Slave actress: "It doesn’t escape me for one moment that so much joy in my life is thanks to so much pain in someone else’s."SPENCER KORNHABERMAR 3 2014Could...
View ArticleKentucky Baptists Lure "Converts" With Gun Giveaway
Alan: There is something gravely wrong with conservative Christians, particularly those who live in The Bible Belt."Bad Religion: A...
View ArticleWeird enuf fer ya? News From Barbaria: #7
Bill Maher's excellent commentary on income inequalityArkansholeThe brainwashing of my dad by Fox, Rush Limbaugh and hate mediaSociopathic stance on Obamacare would be fatal to GOP if...
View ArticleWeird Enuf Fer Ya? News From Barbaria: #6
Pope Francis Linkshttp://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/11/pope-francis-links.html***Kentucky Baptist churches giving away guns to lure ‘unchurched men’ to JesusChristian lawmakers fall for ‘Ponzi...
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