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The Beginnning The San Fransisco Earthquate started at precisely 5:12 a.m. The Titantic stuck the iceberg at precisely one time. Hitler wrot...

Eastern Thought/Western Thought "It is not truth that makes man great, but man that makes truth great." -Confucius "Truth hap...

*Ideas That Make You Want to Slap Yourself on the Forehead and Go "Wow!": LifeStraw LifeStraw is a product made by a company of th...

Lin Yutang "I have always assumed that the end of living is the true enjoyment of it." "What can be the end of human life ...

Homeward Bound Ah, homeward bound I go! Let me now on learn to live alone! The world and I are not made for one another, and why drive rou...

True Crime Stories: Winning-Losing, Life-Death The interview was over and I shook hands with the prisoner/witness and started to leave the l...

Lin Yutang "The Chinese as a nation are more philosophic [meaning here, easy-going] than efficient, and that if it were otherwise, no n...

John Kenneth Galbraith Died Today Such a wonderful, generous-spirited man. His economics will be debated but never his heart. A Canadian who...

On Lin Yutang Modesty is a great virtue when dealing with immodest challenges, like War, and Philosophy. Americans are modest; Pragmatism, t...

Lin Yutang "I should have liked also to write the entire book in the form of a dialogue like Plato's." ... "I do not mean...

Amr Khaled: Reforming Provocateur Imagine a prominent Arab Muslim cleric calling for "a new approach by Muslims, one of reform and dial...

Hope and Fear, Tragedy and Reality. Dr. Wafa Sultan on Islam. The truth was made more compelling by the elegant prose: "The Jews have c...

Investment Advice take the $2 you normally spend on Powerball or the like, take the odds and put it on the University of Pittsburgh to reac...

Signs of Water on Saturn's Moon Enceladus Headline on CNN.com today; what looks to the scientists like an Old Faithful-type geiser spewi...

Danish Cartoons, Islamic Rage, The West Squirms Islam is rioting over a series of offensive cartoons and the West is squirming. Islam does n...

We noticed a lot of lifestyle-type ads: "The Retreat at Sheppard Pratt. A first class setting for world class care. Psychotherapeuti...

Democrats Should Oppose Alito Judge Samuel Alito's elevation to the Supreme Court is all but inevitable. He is unquestionably qualified,...

"Boswell felt that the act of writing regularly was beneficial in itself, both as a discipline which would encourage the habit of appli...

The New Yorker Horror Parte Tres. "The Ads. You're Looking at the Ads." How could we recognize a New Yorker reader? More impor...

Could We Be A New Yorker Reader? Parte Deux: Dr. Seymour M. Hersh and the Inspiration of Tyrone. Did we have the "right stuff" to ...

Could We Be A New Yorker Reader? Do We Have The "Right Stuff?" Parte Une: "The Cold Fusion Yo-Yo." We were chatting with...

"The Cold Fusion Yo-Yo" "by Duncan , a high-tech precision 62g aircraft aluminum yo-yo with steel ballbearigs. World record 7...

Books and Covers During the transition from the Carter to the Reagan administration William F. Buckley, Jr. said that he anticipated that...

On "Dead Sparrow Overshadows Domino World" I did not know that there was a "Domino World." I have heard of a "Raid...

"Dead Sparrow Oveshadows Domino World" Linguists like Noam Chomsky have given examples of meaningless sentences that can be constr...

Art and Science Piece; Abstract, Draft One Economically, militarily, technologically, scientifically and culturally America is to varying de...

Art Piece, Draft Two, Part Two A passenger on one of the first trains in England breathlessly wrote to her mother about what it was like for...

The Aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita 799-0. That is the number of dead as a result of the two hurricanes as reported in CNN this wee...

Art Piece, Draft Two, Part One Until about the mid-fifteenth century in the West the presently distinct disciplines of philosophy, art and s...

Today is Sept. 11 I'm not near over this yet. -Benjamin Harris