Mark McGwire Needs to Tell the Truth
He retired from the game just before the Steroid Era came to light. While he previously denied illegal performance enhancing drug use, those denials stopped when under penalty of perjury.
He retired from the game just before the Steroid Era came to light. While he previously denied illegal performance enhancing drug use, those denials stopped when under penalty of perjury.
Mike Robbins | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living
As I've been making my way through my feelings of remorse, embarrassment, and confusion - I've been thinking a lot about the well-known saying, "We teach best what we most need to learn.
Jim Selman | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living
Positive thinking tends to tranquilize us into a 'good feeling' about the future and blinds us to the facts of a given situation. We think our points-of-view are true -- that our 'will' can determine what happens.
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 10.13.2009 | World
Reported have said that joint military operations between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo have been a catastrophic failure. Now satellite imagery of the Busurungi area in North Kivu clearly shows burned villages.
Menachem Rosensaft | Posted 10.02.2009 | World
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is not the only one intent on twisting, distorting and ignoring the truth. In America, there are those on the far right who impugn the truth as well.
Mort Rosenblum | Posted 09.29.2009 | World
Our blindness is voluntary. In an overheating world, literally and figuratively, complacent citizens shape whatever reality suits them best.
Pavel Somov, Ph.D. | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living
When you and I look at one and the same object of reality, say a hat, and you think it is great looking and I think it's heinous, the only thing that both of us can agree on is that "it is what it is."
Candy Spelling | Posted 09.14.2009 | Living
George Lakoff, a UC Berkeley linguistics professor: "The Democrats still believe in Enlightenment reason: If you just tell people the truth, they will come to the right conclusion."
Jen Grisanti | Posted 09.06.2009 | Living
Clarity is an important ingredient in feeling free to express yourself.
Jim Selman | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics
When the nutters want to both destroy civil discourse and undermine the democratic process in some cynical financially motivated power grab, then we must call it what it is: bullshit.
Eva M. Selhub, M.D. | Posted 08.27.2009 | Living
In some form, at some time, we have all been silenced. We all have felt that our voice had no value, that we were invisible.
Dean Becker | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics
Today's "compassionate" drug warriors have fractured the futures and pulverized the possibilities of more than 37,000,000 US citizens.
Susan Smalley, Ph.D. | Posted 08.16.2009 | Living
I am beginning a new voyage into unknown territory - the worldly dimension of Art. I feel as though I was handed a flashlight in a dark room and beckoned to begin to explore.
Jen Grisanti | Posted 08.13.2009 | Living
Writing is a special and essential tool available to everyone that provides a cathartic opportunity to reflect on life, its evolutions, and our perspectives on it.
Dean Becker | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics
The real kingpins are bankers, pharmaceutical house CEOs, weapons manufacturers and a thousand other corporate interests whose gross profits depend on violence, hatred, distrust and deception.
James M. Lynch | Posted 07.02.2009 | Entertainment
A true friend is one who will tell you the truth whether or not you want to hear it, whether it might endanger the status quo of the friendship or not.
realsimple.com | Jenna Mccarthy | Posted 07.02.2009 | Living
Nearly any adult will tell you that lying is wrong. But when it comes to avoiding trouble, saving face in front of the boss, or sparing someone's feel...
Oleg Kozlovsky | Posted 06.19.2009 | World
Since "falsification of history" is a very vague definition, their field of work is only limited by their own fantasy.
Wes Isley | Posted 06.05.2009 | Style
Television shows and beauty pageants are rather inconsequential in the grand scheme of things, but they reflect broad, underlying trends back to us.
Carter Phipps | Posted 05.31.2009 | Living
As a culture, we must begin to recognize that while truth and objectivity may not be absolutes that exist perfectly free of time and history, neither are they hopelessly embedded in personal perspectives.
Dan Glickman | Posted 05.22.2009 | Entertainment
I'm proud of the starring role that movies play bringing joy and inspiration to people worldwide. The real-world role we play at the heart of our modern, creative economy is often overlooked.
Dean Sluyter | Posted 05.14.2009 | Living
Awareness is like space; everything else comes and goes within it like wind. Even the most violent wind can't make the space less spacious.
Paul K. Chappell | Posted 05.04.2009 | Politics
Patriotism requires us to question our government and think critically so that America can become a more humane, just, and peaceful country for all of its citizens and a role model for the rest of the world.
Tom Morris | Posted 04.30.2009 | Business
Goodness is important in many forms. An automaker should care about its customers, and design cars for us that are good in many ways -- safe, reliable, inexpensive to operate, and well designed to meet our needs.
Linda Milazzo | Posted 04.27.2009 | Media
CNN Vice President Bohrman, do you truly believe we viewers are dumb enough to accept a bizarre word scramble as the thesis of a literate and clear thinking President?
Graham Bensinger | Posted 11.04.2009 | Entertainment