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Codependent Relationships
2007-12-20 20:03:00 Defining what comprises a codependent relationship or the karma that may be involved is not a simple task. Just as causes have many effects which in turn create more causes, there are numerous factors to consider in a codependent personality which vary from person to person. Not all of them represent pathology. Many associate ... More About: Relationships , Psychology , Sociology
The Decline Of The American President
2007-12-19 17:00:00 “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” Although both parties, Republicans and Democrats have shared presidential power in the last seventy-five years, mistakes made on both ... More About: Philosophy , Politics , History , Celebrity
The Salamander Who Lost His Tail
2007-12-17 17:00:00 On the edge of a pond, lived a salamander who had a habit of making himself invisible whenever he left his burrowed-out hole, mostly to avoid large snakes looking for food. In the pond, on a large waterlily, sat a bullfrog eyeing the insects as they skimmed above the water, avoiding the fish as they jumped ... More About: Philosophy , Lost , Sciences , Tail , Salamander
The Original Star Trek - Remastered on HD-DVD
2007-12-15 17:00:00 Although most agree, there will always be a special place in “Sto-Vo-Kor? for James T. Kirk, dashingly portrayed by William Shatner in his pre TJ Hooker, Dennie Crane days. Some might add that Shatner’s flashy over-the-top acting and huge ego might be more appropriately settled if he were sent to Gre’thor, the Klingon Hades that ... More About: News , Movie , Star Trek , Original , Star
Computer Security Done Right
2007-12-14 17:00:00 Anyone with a computer has faced the prospect of a virus or a worm intended to invade the inner sanctum of the hard drive, wreaking havoc amongst all those programs and collected data. A malevolent, perhaps mischievous individual or group wanting to make some point. Now it is possible to protect yourself, and the very files that define everything about you as clearly as your DNA. For those who believe in the potential “power” it can generate, this is something that no Internet Intellectual can do without. It’s small, easy to travel, won’t trigger airport security systems, never needs driver updates, never crashes, doesn’t require a long booting time and guaranteed to make any virus or worm think twice about invading your GUI. The hand-painted poly-resin Computer Gargoyle figurines will ward off evil glitches as you go about your daily work. They are sold as a set of four, approximately 3 1/4″ tall each. Beautifully crafted to remind one of New Yor... More About: Security , Computer Security
Alternate Realities
2007-12-13 17:00:00 “For any event, there is an infinite number of possible outcomes. Our choices determine which outcome will follow, but in quantum physics, there is a theory where all possibilities that can happen, do happen in an alternate reality.” Lieutenant Commander Data in Parallels - TNG 263 Are these words credible? Or do they represent the machinations of ... More About: Sciences , Science-Fiction , Alterna
When You?ve Got ?IT?
2007-12-12 17:00:00 When everyone looks at you, there are two possibilities. Either you are unbelievably attractive, sexy, an object d’attention or displaying an unsightly bugga, a fly unzipped, perhaps to be swatted? Sexiness is the ability to stir sexual fantasies in other people, just by look. Those that are the cause of the “stir” are what many people ... More About: Philosophy , Medicine , Ethics , Psychology , Sciences
Is It True, Not, Or Just A Crock #4
2007-12-11 16:39:00 In Shakespeare’s time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes. When you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase “goodnight, sleep tight.” More About: Ethics , True , Croc
Ode To Peanut ? The Three Eyed Cat
2007-12-08 17:00:00 Three is better than two, they all doth say Even the potato has more to keep those at bay The dreaded cyclops has one , you see Whilst Peanut had three, one blue, two green. The feline sire, females all sought All eye-ing the cat, that came from nought. A sage, a lover, a cat friend of all Acting with zest, with ... More About: Poetry
The Original LG Chocolate - Original or just Coco?
2007-12-07 17:00:00 Before I convey my impressions of this device, what does its name and look suggest? We initially see an object, like fashion as the outer package, even if at first glance its other meanings appear hidden, conveying messages, motives and can in some cases speak to the subconscious while suggesting, like a dream, perfectly logical ... More About: Original , Gadget , Chocolate , Coco , Origin
Navigating The Maze Of Health Care Insurance
2007-12-06 17:00:00 However one views the health care industry, successful navigation requires understanding the principles it follows. Although its goal should be to provide health care, business concerns often take precedence. In her compelling article, “Health Care Industry“, Patricia M. Danzon begins, “It is unpredictable and imperfectly understood by producers, and still less by consumers. Third-party ... More About: Politics , Insurance , Medicine , Health Care
Exploring Philosophical Photography
2007-12-03 17:00:00 When I considered Art in the past, photography was never part of the repertoire of forms which were as creative as painting or sculpting. Just aim and press a button. What’s creative about that? I have since had remorse, realizing that I was doing to photography what a friend of mine, a painter, implied when he said, “Painting is a purer art form than sculpture.” I had decided to explore photography. I wasn’t concerned about the quality of the photograph as much as understanding what it was that I was setting out to do, with a pocket sized Casio 900 series camera. What I discovered was intriguing. My awareness of what was going on around me became noticeably focused on looking for interesting things to picture. I was excited when walking down 59th street between Park and Madison Avenues, on the South side of the street, I passed a Hallmark Store. When I gazed into the window, there was a 2-inch water bug, belly up in an “I love NY” ashtray. Anyone... More About: Photography , Philosophical , Exploring
My Life Is A Card Catalogue Room In New York?s Forty-Second Street Library
2007-12-01 17:00:00 When contemplating any subject, I often intentionally avoid researching it. After all, I think, part of writing has to come from what I already know, not what I set out to learn. Only then can I test my apprehension, from what I think I understand, assuming it’s worth writing in the first place. If I read ... More About: Philosophy , Life , Card , New York , Library
Elecciones Argentina, ?La Nueva Evita?
2007-11-30 17:00:00 This is the first post from new guest writer Davin Blu. Please support his blog EclectIdeas. If your Spanish is limited, scroll to the bottom of this post to use the translator. Ella ha sido llamada “La Nueva Evita” y la “Hillary Latina,” pero este domingo recién pasado, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner hizo historia como ninguna ... More About: News , Politics , History , Celebrity , Argentina
Prima Donna Looks – Poem/Lyrics
2007-11-29 17:00:00 Always looking for a place to go Acting sophisticated, and on the go Never willing to travel far below Their aristocratic-ly shaped, Ho Ho Ho. Constantly focused on their looks Never reading any text or books, Except for those that exclusively say How to have a better face and body for display. So keep your distance, and stay away For “They are the Diva’s, keeping everyone at bay” By avoiding “yo’ all” far from the fray And all “They” say is, Hey Hey Hey. Never without a lasting glance Balancing romance with happenstance Claiming they can’t, no never, perchance? Acting like they belong in Paris, France. Nothing more than a roving eye Amongst the heated cattle, As the Prima Moo-ves by Waving, with a faint smile, whispering, Buh-bye. Why you ever thought they could love you so? Should be more than enough to make anyone blow Their high brow snobby intense flow More like Uncle Fester’s light-bulbed mouth, aglow. Regardless of their... More About: Lyrics , Poem , Donna , Looks
Life Is? Dot.
2007-11-28 17:00:00 Visualizing something as vast as “the cosmic expanse” and understanding it in familiar expression can help to compromise doubt and encourage more questioning, allowing an open mind. Suppose life is a yoke laid by a very large chicken in a Cosmic Chicken Coop, surrounded by a luminous fence defining the area of its peck as it ... More About: Philosophy , Life , Psychology , Sociology , Eclectics
Is It True, Not, Or Just A Crock #3
2007-11-27 14:30:00 In Scotland, many years ago, a new game was invented It was called, “Gentlemen Only, Ladies Forbidden”. Thus, the world GOLF entered into the English Language. More About: News , Politics , History , Ethics , Prizes
Poetic Muse
2007-11-26 17:00:00 Poetry becomes, Space between the line, Separated by letter, comma, period, Encapsulating possibilities. Evoked Images, The Poet’s Muse . What is not said is as important to poetic thought as what is. The Breadth between the line, the mind’s eye , developed with accumulated imagery , from the very first word to the last, the boundary of empty canvas waiting to be filled with suggested impressions, independent or not. Liberated borders of the writers’ thought, by which the reader becomes intuitively informed. Colloquy, soliloquy, spaced, a stream of though that includes unanticipated notions, logical or not, paradoxically co-existent, perhaps analogous to dreams.
Oh Essence, Oh Essence - A Poem
2007-11-24 17:00:00 oh essence, oh essence for where art thou be the sweet perfumed scent of hallucinogenic pink elephants running free spots before my eyes do move as my stomach growls perhaps even tasty gruel to calm my nerves sustain my creative urge oh essence, my tears run as the smoke filled room doth irritate mine eye for thee More About: Poem
How To ?Hand-le? Your Thing(a)
2007-11-23 17:00:00 The first image I saw in mind’s eye as I gaze at the “Hand -le“, designed by Naomi Thellier de Poncheville was Gomez Adams’ childhood companion Thing T. Thing or just plain Thing, the disembodied hand aptly portrayed by Thing in The Adams Family. Perhaps this is, Thinga’magig, Thing’s long lost love who lived in the ... More About: Gadget
The Old Man and The Burden
2007-11-22 17:00:00 On my fifteenth birthday, I was walking home from school. I chanced a small wagon with an old man. No horses to drive it, just there, as if it be his house. A small dog tied on a leash to the wheel, looking tired and sad. “Can you avail me? I need help lifting a heavy ... More About: Philosophy , Book
Love Potions For The Ages
2007-11-19 17:00:00 “Herbs, roots, flowers and various berries found in nature are able to be used wholly when effective combinations appropriate for restoration of individual deficiency be understood. Naught ingredients, but proportion, determine potency of said potion. This be true for healing illness.” Contessa Llwaxanna Love less Von Bralispth In her book, Love Potion For All Ages, she ... More About: History , Book , Sociology , Eclectics
Nature?s Hoe ? A Poem
2007-11-17 17:00:00 Born from life’s artful delineation The seed of earnest potential Longing urges, programmed calls. A Spiral Truth, life anew Borne upon the edge of fate Directed, toward some sweet embrace. Never early, a timely date Figuring its place, amongst the Be Honey’s dew, nature’s Being, Freshly mated, unspoiled Dying to be baited. More About: Nature , Poetry , Poem
Is This True, Not, Or Just A Crock#2
2007-11-16 20:06:00 In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in “old” England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them “Mind your pints and quarts, and settle down. Thus we got the phrase, “mind your P’s and Q’s” More About: True , Eclectics , Croc
Karma + History (Actions Over Time) = Destiny
2007-11-15 17:00:00 According to people who hold to the tenants of Reincarnation, a soul is placed in a situation because of some previous karma, earned in another life that remained unresolved, the task of which would be to discover the pattern, accept its impact on behavior, then experiment with elements that may lead to other outcomes. The ... More About: Philosophy , Religion , History , Destiny , Spirituality
What The Increase In Chlamydia Means.
2007-11-14 01:58:00 According to the CDC (Center for Disease Control), the rate of Chlamydia, a sexually transmitted disease, is increasing along with Gonorrhea and Syphilis. Chlamydia is alarming the medical community because 75% of all cases in women are without symptoms. If untreated, it can cause PID (Pelvic ... More About: News , Medicine
Resonant Afterthought - Poem
2007-11-13 17:00:00 Reflection, Mementos, long forgotten notions. Fractured mirrors, and poets’ folly, Time’s mock of future’s past, Presents fill of reverberation. Invisible keys of eluded chance, Burdened circumstance Incomplete insight. A chest cluttered with select fantasy Until unveiled visions, Empower light’s gift. Resonant Afterthought. More About: Poetry , Poem
Donda West And Cosmetic Surgery
2007-11-13 06:10:00 The untimely death of Kanye West’s mother Donda, due to a reported cosmetic procedure, causes one to pause and wonder. Surgery, at best, is a trauma to the body with risks which can range from potential infection, bleeding, cardio-pulmonary complications or an unanticipated reaction to anesthesia. No surgery should be considered minor or risk free. A ... More About: Cosmetic , Celebrity , Medicine , Cosmetic Surgery , Ethics
Stargazing For UFO?s - Unidentified Flying Objects
More articles from this author:2007-11-12 20:01:00 Putting aside for a moment that the unidentified flying object rapidly moving towards you is not something your significant other threw when he/she unexpectedly came home and found you in a passionate embrace (or more), the claim of UFO’s has been relegated to science-fiction, delusion or over ripe imagination. On Larry King Live ... More About: News , Movie , History , Celebrity , Flying 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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