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Category: Living Successfully
PJTV Discusses the Jessi Slaughter Viral Internet Flame
This is the best treatment of the Jessi Slaughter viral internet flame that I’ve heard. Thoughtful, compassionate, and yet tough. It puts the incident, and the dangers of the internet for children, in historical perspective. And in anticipation of those…
To See Proof of the Fallacy of Utopian Views, Look No Further Than the Beatles
Those with Utopian views can only maintain their rose-colored-glasses view of humanity by denying the realities of humanity’s basic nature . Very good World Magazine article by Matt Ristuccia in the April 10, 2010 issue. For link, click HERE.
John Taylor Gatto: I Quit, I Think
Originally published in The Wall Street Journal, July 25th, 1991, this is a good short read of one teacher’s frustration with bureaucratic public education. Read it HERE at www.educationrevolution.org Gatto also wrote several books, one of which, The Underground History…
Neal Boortz Faux Commencement Speech
John Scott sent me this link, and I was wondering what University or College would allow this commencement speech… then I noticed it was a “Faux” speech. It has never been delivered at a commencement. But it should be. The…
Commencement Address You Won’t Hear
A good 10 min view, but it gets really good at 7:28 Highlights: 7:28 “Wealth can be generated from thin air.” 8:17 “You can spread the existing wealth around, or, you can go out and make some more of it.…
What The Real Danger Is
The quote below has shown up at least twice online, the earliest of which I’m aware of is in a comment to a post on Reuters; http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLDE60Q23H20100127 by someone with the screen name O2BNTEXAS. Good Quote. “The danger to America…
89 Year-Old Woman Drives a 43 Year-Old Car…
I like this woman! If you support Sustainable Living, you gotta like what old gal has done…. Drive the same car for 43 years and there sure isn’t much waste.
Furthermore to Our Distorted Perceptions of Beauty…
Here is a follow-on post to the previous post “Our Distorted Perceptions of Beauty”. Before and after shots of pictures that were digitally retouched. The beauty that we have been conditioned to value isn’t real. It’s not a real person,…
Of Self-Esteem, Responsibility & Feelings
There is a great line in the James L. Brooks movie, “Spanglish” (starring Adam Sandler, Tea Leoni and Cloris Leachman) about personal responsibility and self esteem. Deborah Clasky (Tea Leoni), is having an affair. Deborah’s mother, Evelyn (Cloris Leachman), knows…