Month: February 2012
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The Quest for Something Concrete
Recently, I watched a rerun of The West Wing that showed the president right after his daughter had been kidnapped and safely returned. Shaken by the uncertainty of life, the President faces a number of ambiguous challenges, balancing complex relationships between a number of nations. In the midst of this, a series of tornadoes strikes…
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Fear Today, Gone Tomorrow
Ever had your loved one not come home when you expect? At first, we think they must have just been delayed in traffic, so we call their cell phone and don’t get an answer. Now we start to imagine some pretty creative scenarios; maybe they got in a car accident, or worse. As we dwell…
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Money and Contentment are By-Products
To see the picture in this image, you have to shake your head. Staring at the picture doesn’t work — the picture only comes through because of another action. It is a by-product. This is true of a lot of things in life: happiness, contentment, and money rarely if ever come by focusing on them.…
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Bullsh*t vs. The 5th Amendment
Nothing has been scientifically proven to be more effective for headaches. – TV commercial Sure sounds better than reality: No scientific studies have ever compared this product to any other product. Modern marketing and politics play fancy free and foot loose with the truth. Spin is king. Harry G. Frankfurt wrote a small treatise on…