I felt a number of different emotions when I first saw the video of Elizabeth Lambert from the University of New Mexico soccer match vs. BYU on November 5, 2009. If you have not seen it yet and you want to dial up your own emotional response to it, here you go: I had a [...]
The dust has settled from the tragedy at Ft. Hood. With it, little else is known about why Major Nidal Malik Hasan felt compelled to take so many innocent lives in a storm of bullets at the deployment center. As I wrote last week, it is possible that Hasan was attempting to go down in [...]
90 minutes was not enough time to decide the semifinal match between the L.A. Galaxy and the Houston Dynamo last night. My childhood friend Alan Gordon came on as a substitute late in the game. During the overtime period, Alan drew a penalty kick that would ultimately be taken by team captain Landon Donovan. Here [...]
How you feel about Jon Gosselin is probably going to depend a lot on what you have personally experienced in your own life, or how you value stories of failure and redemption. If you’ve led a morally upright life, and you tend to only value failure if it is soon followed by redemption, you may [...]
Malcolm Gladwell is my favorite writer and one of the brightest thinkers I have come across. He was invited to give a talk at TED.com, which is a website sprung from an organization dedicated to discussing “ideas worth spreading” in the fields of Technology, Entertainment, and Design (TED). The video below is from his talk [...]
If you have never checked out the website www.mentalfloss.com, you are denying yourself the greatest internet experience of man’s recorded history. Ok, that might be overselling it a little, but it’s at least worth giving a good look-see. Check out some of the shirts they sell (Disclaimer: I have no connection or relationship with the [...]
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September 11, 2011
If Love Doesn’t Win…
Fasting for Ramadan as a non-Muslim – Day 23
Tuesday Newsday – Roman Polanski Arrested
Fasting for Ramadan as a non-Muslim – Day 20
The Many Roles of the Sound of Silence
Baptized into The Church of Rock & Roll
Music of This Moment
A New Year, and A New Approach
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