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Entries by Michael Sigman from 10/2012

InsightLA: 10 Years of Good Dharma

| Posted 10.05.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Jack Kornfield, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction, Vipassana, Trudy Goodman, Vipassana Meditation, Dan Siegel, Meditation, Tim Ryan, Tara Brach, Mindfulness Meditation, Buddhism, Sharon Salzberg, Phillip Moffitt, John Kabat-Zinn, How to Meditate, Meditation Advice, Why Meditation, Meditate, Meditation Tips, Healthy Living News

This fall, InsightLA celebrates its 10th anniversary -- a decade during which Trudy and an ever-growing band of colleagues have helped change the lives of thousands of Angelenos.

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New/Old Stones Flick: Does Satisfaction With '60s Idealism Endure?

| Posted 10.16.2012 | Fifty
Read More: Mick Jagger, Rolling Stones, Andrew Loog Oldham, Baby Boomers, Charlie Watts, Bill Wyman, Brian Jones, The Beatles, 1960s Music, Keith Richards, Elvis Presley, Video, Fifty News

Does the '60s generation still want to change the world? In the new cut of the Rolling Stones documentary, "Charlie Is My Darling -- Ireland 1965," a 22-year-old Mick Jagger ponders the staying power of his generation's peace/love/liberation/rebellion ethos.

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Who Wants a Bully in the Oval Office?

| Posted 10.22.2012 | Politics
Read More: Mitt Romney, Candy Crowley, Presidential Debates, Paul Ryan, Bullying, President Obama, Foreign Policy, Politics News

Romney's 2010 book is revealing not only for its title -- No Apology -- but also for its subtitle, The Case for American Greatness. For Mitt, America's greatness is defined by blustery aggressiveness without apology, In a word, bullying.

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Uncommon Sense: Self-Driving Cars and Books That Write Themselves

| Posted 10.26.2012 | Comedy
Read More: Quantum Physics, Bertrand Russell, Plato, Aristotle, Self-Driving Cars. Ebooks, Michel Foucault, Buddhism, Zen Koan, Firesign Theatre, Video, Comedy News

A webzine recently asked me to write 100 words on the question, "If you had to choose between blindness and deafness, which sense would you keep?" I gave them one word: "common."

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Reflections on a (Missed) High School Reunion

| Posted 10.30.2012 | Fifty
Read More: The Young Rascals, Smokey Robinson, Lenny Welch, The Chiffons, High School Reunion, The-Youngbloods, Presidential Election, The Critters, Video, Fifty News

I was disappointed that I wouldn't get to hang out with some of my favorite people. But though I missed the laughs and the hugs, the very process of cancelling gave me another gift which is, in a way, even more meaningful.

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