A Beautiful Article
Marti posted this article about Modern Love on his Twitter; it is a very nice read and worth reposting here.
Anyone who has been married for a long time starts to feel like a soldier surrounded by heavy casualties. In graduate school, a couple who married when we did failed to make it through a year. [...]
Rant scratchy: Truth or War
My number two rant about certain conservative politics:
Jesus loves you. God Bless America.
Let’s go to war.
I see a lot of people these days talking about how we shouldn’t have gone to war in Iraq, and strangely, some of them are the same people who accused me of disloyalty and being unpatriotic to my country [...]
The Foreign Service
Two minutes ago, I received an e-mail from the State Department saying I passed the foreign service exam and can move on to the next stage in the hiring process (five narrative essays, which, if acceptable, will lead to two days of oral interviews in Washington, D.C.). This is the second time I’ve taken [...]
Remember that dream?
Remember that dream where you walked down the aisle at church and suddenly realized you were completely naked? Or the one where you “woke up” and realized you’d missed all your finals? Personally I like to dream that I have to use the restroom in front of a large crowd. I think this is a [...]
Indian Engineer makes motorbike that runs on air
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction — and solutions come in a lot of different packages. A group of Indian engineering students were told to make something that had never been made before, so they created a motorcycle that runs on…air. Yes, *just* air. I’m not talking about Hagrid, flying around in [...]
Dreams that just won’t die
One of the most amazing videos I’ve seen in a while — I can’t embed it on my site, so you’ll have to click the link. Click it. It’s worth it.
Susan Boyle, age 47, confesses to her dream of becoming a professional singer to laughter and jeers
Put down your weapons
Tonight, while reading Judith Warner’s column online in the New York Times, I stumbled onto an article she had written a few weeks ago called “Families to Care About.” The gist of the article was that the economic downturn has mostly affected the poor and middle classes, but that coverage was primarily of upper-class [...]
More Incredible Friends
Sometimes I think that I’ve become an underachiever in life; then I take a look at what my friends are up to, and I know I have. There’s J., putting child molesters away as a forensic nurse in the north; S., studying to be a nurse after 7 years in the jungles of Thailand; [...]
Is Challenging Authority Un-American?
Okay, now I know I made my own separate blog for political issues, but to me, this is more the world of ideas than politics. And here it is: I went to see The Golden Compass tonight, and it was great. Great graphics, great story, amazing actors — it was all there. [...]
I couldn’t have said it better…
I like to read a blog called Get Rich Slowly. It’s part of a set of personal finance blogs (PF blogs) that I have feeds for and read every day in my quest to save money and become more responsible. This particular article is a guest post by someone named Amanda, who is [...]