February 2012
1 post
Heritage USA: From God Town to Ghost Town →
iO9 had this link earlier today. Heritage USA (founded by the infamous Jim Baker) used to be third most visited theme park in USA. It now sits abandoned. Check out these pictures that look like something out of a zombie apocalypse movie. Click the title to check it out.
January 2012
1 post
3:44 AM →
I must be doing it wrong. I’ve tracked my own awakenings for years now and I wake up most at 4:27 AM.
December 2011
2 posts
Anxiety: Three Messages to Avoid Giving Kids... →
I couldn’t’ agree with this any more (click here to see the whole thing).
Kids don’t generally develop anxiety disorders all on their own. Oh sure, genes and biology have some influence, but these factors largely just predispose kids in the direction of acquiring problems with anxiety. The wrong messages can push both anxiously disposed kids as well as otherwise normal kids in the...
October 2011
4 posts
Facebook Posts Reveal Alcoholism Risk →
This study may actually have found a true phenomenon, but we will never know for sure because nobody can find their friends’ Facebook posts anymore.
Honest Answer About UK Football →
This pretty much sums up UK football!
September 2011
3 posts
Winning?
Relax, this isn’t an article about Charlie Sheen but his claim of “bi-winning” did probably influence me in taking a hard look at what it means to win.
So what does it mean to win? According to the dictionary, winning means “gaining, resulting in, or relating to victory in a contest or competition”. For anyone who has ever won a game, a contest, or a competition of any sort, the feeling of...
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August 2011
4 posts
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Pew Observations - Part 1
In some form or another, I have had a view from a pew for much of my entire life. My biological and spiritual family trees are filled with a seemingly disproportionate number of ministers. I grew up as one of those kids who if the church doors were open for a service or gathering, we were probably going to be there. I have attended small churches and large churches; country churches, urban...
Novak Djokovic's Secret: Sitting in a Pressurized... →
Tripoli psychiatric hospital overwhelmed by war... →
July 2011
7 posts
Theater of the Absurd - Part 2 →
Apple now has more cash on hand than the US government!
Theater of the Absurd - Part 1 →
Senator Harry Reid and fellow Democrats filibuster their own bill.
Link to 1,500 Page Manifesto of Norway Terrorist →
It is not entirely clear but this appears to be a manifesto of the Norwegian Terrorist Anders Behring Breivik. It is a rambling piece but amazingly has a diary of his activities leading up the day of his attack(s). Please be advised that there is much in this that is disturbing. If this is legitimate, there will be no arguing that his actions weren’t premeditated. However, I suspect some...
Timely Treatment for Depression Hard to Get, Even... →
Massachusetts requires health insurance for all, is second in the nation in the number of doctors per capita, and mandates equal coverage for mental and physical illnesses. Yet when researchers there posed as well-insured patients seeking treatment for depression, only 6% of calls to mental health facilities resulted in an appointment within two weeks, according to a new study.
This was true...
Carmageddon It - AKA My NASCAR Weekend Experience
Carmageddon It - AKA My NASCAR Weekend Experience
July 7th, 8th, and 9th I took in three straight days of NASCAR races: the UNOH 225 (Camping World Series), the Feed the Children 300 (Nationwide Series) and the Quaker State 400 (Sprint Cup Series) at the Kentucky Speedway in Sparta Kentucky. We had seven sets of tickets, which eight different individuals got to enjoy. My father treated all of...
How Would You Like a $278,000 Job? Sign Me Up. →
Who knows if their analysis is correct, but if it is even close, this is frustrating.
March 2011
10 posts
Irony, Thy Name is Sharyn Wolf →
Sharyn Wolf, LCSW is a marriage counselor and psychotherapist practicing in New York City. She is the author of the memoir, Love Shrinks: A Memoir of a Marriage Counselor’s Divorce which is being published on May 3rd by Soho Press. She has appeared on hundreds of television and radio shows including eight appearances on Oprah.
What Oprah, the audience, or anyone in her life didn’t...
Irony, Thy Name Is Adrian Peterson →
Vikings’ RB Adrian Peterson has compared the NFL labor situation to modern-day slavery. He also has a contract that will pay him $10.72M for the 2011 season if he gets to play it.
Irony, Thy Name Is Obama →
President Obama’s only event today at the White House that wasn’t closed to the press was a ceremony in which he’ll accept an award for being open to the press. Click title to see the article
Talk Doesn’t Pay, So Psychiatry Turns Instead to... →
Alone with his psychiatrist, the patient confided that his newborn had serious health problems, his distraught wife was screaming at him and he had started drinking again. With his life and second marriage falling apart, the man said he needed help.
But the psychiatrist, Dr. Donald Levin, stopped him and said: “Hold it. I’m not your therapist. I could adjust your medications, but I don’t ...
Borderline, In B Major
Borderline, In B Major
I turn down the lights so that you can see the stars
You think that I hung the moon there for you
It was just a silver sliver hanging in the sky
Who knew that it would make you cry?
I pull back the shades to let the light in
You see me in a view that is hardly true
It is just the absence of shadow, shine
Who knew that for it you would pine?
I led you just so that...
February 2011
8 posts
100 Words Every High School Graduate Should Know →
The editors of the American Heritage® dictionaries have compiled a list of 100 words they recommend every high school graduate should know. “The words we suggest,” says senior editor Steven Kleinedler, “are not meant to be exhaustive but are a benchmark against which graduates and their parents can measurethemselves. If you are able to use these words correctly, you are...
Most Household Injuries Occur In The Bathroom
January 2011
4 posts
Adults With College Degrees in the United States,...
Fascinating interactive map for viewing college degrees in U.S.
Be sure to use the timeline feature.
Superstitions In Baseball →
My favorite is Kevin Rhomberg, who had to touch you if you touched him. Imagine how much his teammates must have tortured him. He also wouldn’t make right turns because (wait for it ….) there are no right turns in baseball!
Hickeys Can Be Harmful to Your Health? →
Be careful out there you crazy kids. If you insist on sucking so hard on someones body that you break vessels and leave bruising, don’t do it near an artery!
December 2010
2 posts
November 2010
7 posts
