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You know, I imagine any powerful entity that has come into
power did so in small, incremental ways. I mean Napoleon had to get through
each country to build his empire, right? What seems to be important are the
gatekeepers (or just paranoid individuals like myself) that point out to others
some empire immerging on the horizon.
Which [...]

“They just drop a wisdomic pearl that stays with you for life. A motto or reason for a situation that just confounds you.”

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You know it seems like a simple task to find a famous person’s Facebook page and just become a friend or fan or whatever. Unfortunately, there are all these bottom feeders that just post up a site that has virtually nothing to do with the famous person in question. You should see the [...]

Microsoft’s Gordon Bell has now converted his brain into digital-memory, or e-memory. The 75-year-old researcher carries around recorders to capture his conversations and all his experiences into 350 gigs of biological memory. It’s part of a project that Microsoft is working on called the SenseCam that a person would wear and automatically record every detail [...]

Yes - I know the title is so 1999; but, hey, “I’ve seen better days / I’ve been the star of many plays.”
I recently came upon a news story that on its surface is shocking, but in its root: less than so because we are talking, after all, about Phoenix, the Valley of the Sun, [...]

I just had the best laugh when I went on Facebook this morning. I know people talk about how FB is evil or what not, but once in a while you read something that just makes you laugh and perhaps gives life’s issues a little perspective. I think the overall theme that struck me was [...]

Cover of Sixteen Candles

It’s weird how someone’s passing that you don’t even know can leave you thinking about that person for quite sometime, a real impact, if you will. This is how I felt hearing the news of John Hughes‘ sudden passing. I know he was not making movies now, but that does not take [...]

You may see many things on the golf course … but a llama and a llama that is caddying??!! Yes - it’s come to that in our country.
For the past couple of months, club pro Brian Lautenschlager and Great Smoky Mountains Greenskeepers Inc. owner Mark English at Sherwood Forest Country Club have been training [...]

his album titles truly captured his rise and fall in simple phrases: first he was OFF THE WALL, and then he was the THRILLER. That success led him to turning to the BAD side of himself and then he evolved into being truly DANGEROUS.

Michael Jackson fought a duality in life on many levels of his character. As a society we had a dual point of view on the King of Pop: we loved his music but hated his lifestyle. It’s part of reflection and distain of extremism: we felt that he went too far about his personal life: [...]