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The Eleventh Commandment: Thou Shalt Kill
Amazing. Utterly amazing. The New York Times is reporting that Churches are now attracting teenagers to the church by having "Halo" nights. That's when teenage boys get together and play a videogame that's rated "M" for mature (which means teenagers can't purchase it...
Be afraid, particularly of batteries
Have you seen this story? Our Boston leadership (and I use the term loosely) is once again promoting terror, fear, and ineptitude, in one happy package. An MIT student had a "bomb hoax" on her shirt. "Hoax" implies she was trying to pull one over on the police. No,...
Take a vacation, if only for perspective.
Just returned to the so-called "real world" after a week camping at a festival. Well, car camping. We had running water, a little shack happily selling us gyros, port-a-potties, and garbage collection. So we weren't really roughing it. But happily, the campground had...
Have you seen Dove’s Campaign for Real Beauty?
I've totally internalized the media images of the Ideal Male Body. Abercrombie & Fitch, galore. So, in a very 21st-century way, I often feel inadequate with my body. Like every time I walk past a mirror. Especially in summer. The amazing thing is that we've...
It’s harder to be a hypocrite if you’re liberal, but not for any moral reasons…
I’m watching Congressman Vitter reporting back to work, after being exposed as a hypocrite, being a big proponent of the Sanctity of Marriage, despite having visited the DC Madame. I was wondering why it always seems to be the Conservatives who ooze hypocrisy. Rev....
Collect some fan mail 🙂
I'm going to be working with an experienced PBS Producer on how to break into the media. Before we meet, she's asked me to poll some colleagues as to what qualities make me stand out, and what they find special about me. Being typical, non-emotional, task-oriented...
Long-term Thinking: The Depopulation Problem
How much of our prosperity is driven by innovation, hard work, productivity, yada, yada, yada, and how much is simple demographics? The Long Now is an organization that encourages long-term thinking. The have free seminars about long-term perspectives. I just finished...
Email just sucks, doesn’t it?
Loved Nora Ephron's take on email today. You can find it at http://SteverRobbins.com/r/m1nog.
The Best Excuses Ever
Have you noticed that people don't like to say, "I'm making this decision because it's convenient for me. It may hurt others. It may even hurt them a lot, but my convenience is more important." They don't like to say it because it forces them to face up to their own...