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Giving Up Your Life

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If you had die for one thing and one thing only, what would you choose?  Your friends?  Your parents?  Your children?  Your country?  How do we, as a logical society, decide how someone should give up their life?

In the days since Haiti was rocked with terrifying earthquakes that may have killed more than 100,000 people and destroyed buildings and infrastructure, support has been pouring in from all over the world.

On December 27, 2009, Domino's Pizza threw out their old pizza recipe and, they claim, invented a whole new taste experience.  Yesterday, I suspending my eating morality for two seconds and took a bite of the "new and improved" Domino's -- cheese only -- pizza to see just how much had changed with the iconic pizza of my childhood. 

Everyone can tie a knot -- even if you've never tied one before:  Take two loose ends and twist.

Tiger Woods has forever dirtied the shiny veneer of his social reputation.  One affair was enough to conceal and confess.  As of this morning, the putting whoremaster now has at least seven women lining up to spill their secrets of their lust for his money and his passion for their honeypots -- and the sad part is now every single woman Tiger has come in contact with over the arc of his life will be put under instant suspicion of the "did she or didn't she" stench -- as Tiger's confessed cheating taints the unsullied and the pure.

The first thing to wither in a failing economy are the rights of the minority individual.  I'll give you a real world example that will set the ominous tone to come for the rest of us.

The Course of Human Longing

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Every couple of years or so, we receive a comment on an article that is both stunning and numbing.  That sort of rendering comment reveals a new angle on an aging ideal that is both magnificently enlightening and intolerably human.  Twelve hours ago, we received one of those comments on an article -- The Uncanny and Homesick Sexual Longing -- originally published on November 12, 2007.

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  • Kathakali Chatterjee: Even more interesting. I am a die hard fan of read more
  • David W. Boles: I'm with you on that. Curling? Really? Total feminine sport. read more
  • Gordon Davidescu: Interesting. I am not particularly keen on either but I read more
  • Kathakali Chatterjee: She didn't. read more
  • David W. Boles: I'm surprised your mother allowed your recall. read more
  • Kathakali Chatterjee: When my ex boyfriend’s mother was diagnosed with cancer he read more
  • David W. Boles: If not you -- who? read more
  • Kathakali Chatterjee: Well, leaving my mother to let her deal with life read more
  • David W. Boles: I'm glad you have no regret -- but was it read more
  • Kathakali Chatterjee: Thanks for your wish David! I know that's brutal -- read more