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Seeing Cormac McCarthy’s The Road at the top of the list for Entertainment Weekly’s The New Classics: The 100 Best Reads from 1983 to 2008 fascinates me. The 2006 book deserves all of the praise and attention it’s received since publication. Even Oprah Winfrey got it right for once when she ordered her minions to read The Road for her book club.

I believe that long shots in action movies are one of the biggest “fuck you”s to Hollywood. I recently rented “Death Sentence” which stars Kevin Bacon and is directed by James Wan (of “Saw” fame, not the shitty sequels.) For those unexposed to the movie, the story takes place around a white-collar

I hope mercy will be extended to me as a stump and bump along with my first blog. It has been my desire for some time to contribute in some way on a number of issues concerning deliberate misconceptions set forth by conservatives and those who are encouraged by them. Homelessness is one of those issues.

Questions I received on studying, defining the spiritual goal, one’s desires, and one’s mind: Question: What should I study every day? My Answer: Study the same things we do, together with us. Question: Should I study only Kabbalah, or are there other books worth studying as well? My Answer: You should study only what we study.

Black youth are not getting a quality education in many of the major centers of black life in this country (NYC, ATL, DC, Baltimore, Cleveland, St. Louis, Chicago, etc.) Not to mention all across the south.

Black youth are not getting a quality education in many of the major centers of black life in this country (NYC, ATL, DC, Baltimore, Cleveland, St. Louis, Chicago, etc.) Not to mention all across the south.

Two questions I received on overcoming our fears: Question: In one of your lessons on the book Shamati you spoke about fear, and you said that when a person is afraid, he should immediately connect to the Creator.

State Hospital Psychiatrist On Video Striking an Intellectually Disabled and Mentally Ill Teen for Snapping a t-shirt, Psychiatrist Is Still On the Job Posted on August 2, 2008 by hymes http://videos.newsobserver.com/?a=player&id=2040587 Click to watch the video, the doctor comes out from

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I highlighted some similarities between P.D. James’s England in The Children of Men and modern China (here), the strongest real-world parallel is modern Japanese culture.  The most striking parallels are the dearth of children, the hostility to immigrants, and the despair of an aging population.