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Patrick Swayze and the Meaning of Life's Moments

Alex Pattakos | Posted 11.15.2009 | Living

Read More: Cancer, Socrates, Death and Dying, Alex Pattakos, Meaning, Viktor Frankl, Pancreatic Cancer, Patrick Swayze, Variety, New Mexico, Living News
Alex Pattakos

Swayze's words and actions throughout his very personal and, unfortunately, sometimes very public ordeal underscore that, in all situations, no matter how desperate they may appear or actually be, you always have the ultimate freedom to choose your attitude.

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MSNBC's Rev. Joe Watkins Accuses President Obama of Breaking and Entering the Nation's Schools While Pastor Steven Anderson Prays For His Death

Ronald B. Robinson | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Img, Joe Watkins, Education, Will Horton, President Speech to Children, Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church Philadelphia, Republican, Msnbc, ION-E Network, Socrates, Plausible Deniability, Christianity, Race, Stereotypes, Coded Language, Breaking and Entering, Conservative, Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, Obama Speech to Congress, Obamacare, Death Panels, Pastor Steven Anderson, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Keith Olbermann, Joe Wilson Comment, Obama Speech to Schools, Michele Malkin, Health Care Reform, Implicit Association, Politics News
Ronald B. Robinson

Rev. Watkins, what you and your ilk are doing is the antithesis of Christianity and Christ's teachings.

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"This Comment Has Been Removed"

Norm Stamper | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Barney Frank, Gun Control, Professor Gates, Obama, White Male Privilege, Cambridge Police, Teddy Kennedy, Dr. Tiller, Socrates, Sai Baba, Sexism, Homophobia, Sotomayor, Racism, Drug War, Death Penalty, Health Care, Censorship, Nazi-Baiter, Politics News
Norm Stamper

How long will it be before one of those pistol-packing town-hallers, driven to the brink by publicly aired hate-talk, pulls his gun, and then its trigger?

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Sir Knavely and the Great Stimulus Package

Steven Denlinger | Posted 08.24.2009 | Politics

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Steven Denlinger

"I'm bitter," Sir Knavely told me. He raised his glass and drank. His furry chin went deep into his Tiger's Milk. Then he set it down. "Why are ...

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Learning to Die

Jim Selman | Posted 08.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Examined Life, Wisdom, Astra Taylor, Dying, Dr. Judith Rich, Living, Socrates, Learning, Eldering, Living News
Jim Selman

Learning to die is really learning to live. It is 'letting go' of the past and the future and allowing ourselves to experience the serenity of just being alive.

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The Reading of Wonders

Michael Sigman | Posted 08.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Google, Ebb Tide, Suzuki Roche, Twitter, Socrates, Elmore Leonord, Reading, Vic Damoe, Aristotle, Paul Simon, Buddhism, Borges, Living News
Michael Sigman

My fascination with the act of reading soon turned into a thirst for the pleasure and meaning only reading can provide

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Did Mark Sanford And Maria Belen Chapur Fall Victim To The Dance?

Diane Tucker | Posted 08.22.2009 | Style

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Diane Tucker

"It was innocent," insisted Mark Sanford, while recollecting his first encounter with Maria Belen Chapur on an Uruguayan dance floor. Oh, really?

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The Politics of Flattery

Edwin Eisendrath | Posted 10.11.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Republican Convention, Voters, Abortion, Socrates, McCain Torture Speech, Rod Blagojevich, George W. Bush, American Democracy, Sarah Palin, Palin Moose, Mccain Torture, Drill Baby Drill, Athens, Mccain Speech, Athenian Democracy, Chicago News
Edwin Eisendrath

The biggest question for Americans is not whether we like Barack or John, Sarah or Joe better. It is whether we have the character to recognize flattery when we hear it, and to stay focused on what matters.

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"The Unexamined Life is Not Worth Living"

Collin Dunn | Posted 08.09.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Socrates, Green Living, Global Warming, Going Green, Green News
Collin Dunn

So said Socrates at his heresy trial, right before drinking the hemlock, and, while he may not have had green living and sustainability in mind, I thi...

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