A break from serious stuff. No offense to Catholics, but “Pope on a rope?” Yes, the Pontiff is coming to the DC Metro area and vendors are stocking up on such memorabilia as bobblehead Popes and “Pope on a rope”. Perhaps this is a way to wash away your sins? Not a “Midnight Confession” but [...]
So now we are having 1st graders (and perhaps even pre-kindergartners) charged with sexual harassment in school–and even having police called. In a Washington Post article today, Post staff writer Brigid Schulte describes incidents where children as young as four are accused of sexual harassment.
Yes, I really do want comments (not spam, of course) and links on your site are good too. BTW: Did you know that Nostradamus predicted the internet? Da Vinci actually drew a picture of it. Of course those drawings are concealed, brought out only the 1st day of the 4th month in the Roman calendar. [...]
We had an enjoyable time at Disneyworld this February, save for one sour taste their customer service left in our mouths–and in our pocket book. Disney puts on a great show, treats patrons graciously at all their attractions, but when it comes to money–there is no compromise, no negotiation, no capitulation to the old credo [...]
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Wow, there’s nothing like a gun strapped to your hip to work up an appetite! I’m talking about Virginia’s own certifiable gun nuts who plan on bringing their guns to dinner in Northern Virginia restaurants on three Saturdays in April. Why? Because Dick Saslaw, a member of the Virginia General Assembly had the audacity to [...]
In an article in today’s Washington Post, Shankar Vedantam uses on odd tack on the Eliot Spitzer debacle to illustrate an interesting point about human behavior. Reporting on a study published in the National Academy of Sciences, Vedantam describes how an awareness of the price apparently influences a person’s actual perception of an item’s value. In [...]
“Never underestimate yourself. Human beings have unlimited potential.” Much of the time they are inane, but now and then they hit the spot with insight. I wonder if there is an untapped market for fortune cookie writing. Probably doesn’t pay as well as greeting cards. Anyway, from the Buddhist perspective, the only limits to one’s [...]
In what turns out to be old news, we learn that Sonia Thomas, competitive eating champ from the DC Metro area thought better of taking on a 235-pound crabcake. The Guiness Book of Records people only just now confirmed that the giant seafood item, created in 2006, was the largest crabcake ever. Weighing in at nearly twice her [...]
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Talking with Woody Hochswender a couple days ago, author of The Buddha in Your Rearview Mirror, he mentioned the people in his neighborhood who earn money exclusively on investments; they are affluent retirees who produce nothing used by anyone. Of course, many of us (myself included) may aspire to such a life. The subject came up in the [...]
Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, John Lennon, George Michael, David Bowie–most from the sixties and most still singing now. They talk and it’s obvious where they are from. Where do the British accents go when they sing? It’s not just them, it’s all the singers from England. If you know anyone whose accent remains, let [...]