Whenever I think of the teaching of Jesus I am reminded of historical crusades it inspired — of William Lloyd Garrison and abolitionism, of Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement in the United States. I think of Tolstoy’s astounding The Kingdom of God Is Within You, the Sermon on the Mount-inspired treatise [...]
Call me a cynic if you will, but all the yellow ribbons on earth will never make up for a decent, well-funded Veterans Administration backed by a Pentagon and a society that cares as much for returning troops as it does for those in the field. Both the living and the dead deserve proper honor. [...]
Quirk Books, the company which created Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is following up The New York Times best seller with another Jane Austen-horror mash-up, Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters. This video promo had me laughing out loud — and sad I have to wait until September 15 for the book to “splash ashore.”
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I am standing in line at a convenience store, waiting to pay the cashier for the $10 of gas I pumped into the car. Not eight feet away, a teenaged girl is talking on a landline pay telephone. I can’t help but hear her.
“Mom. Yes, mom. [Pause.] All right, mom. I will. [Pause.] Aw, mom. [...]
If humans are truly descended from apes, then the whole business of prostitution has been going on for millennia. It may well be a survival instinct: “By sharing, the males increase the number of times they mate, and the females increase their intake of calories,” said Dr. Cristina Gomes of the Max Planck Institute for [...]