I’m reading the book Scientology, a New Slant on Life, for the first time in 30 years. This book, by L. Ron Hubbard, was recently re-released, with typographical and other errors cleaned up; all the basic books of Scientology were gone through carefully, compared closely against the original author’s manuscripts so as to make them […]
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What You Say Can Leave a Lasting Impression
Today is the 61st anniversary of the publication of Dianetics, the Modern Science of Mental Health, by L. Ron Hubbard. When I first picked up a copy of Dianetics on display at the Greyhound Bus terminal in Medford, Oregon, in the summer of 1968, I read the back panel of the book and rejected outright […]
Democracy in the Middle East
I just read Ken Blackwell’s essay called “Purple Fingers Aren’t Enough”. He has given eloquent voice to the thoughts running around in many of our heads as we watched the revolution succeed in Egypt. In effect, most of what he said can be summed up in the quote he gives from Edmund Burke: “Men of […]
Connie Willis quote about regret
I sometimes wondered if it were the best way to spend my youth — shouldn’t I be out making a fortune, or writing books, or just sailing around the world or something?
SEO Audits | A Good Overview from Adam Audette
“SEO is both an art and a science.” The science is in the DATA — what you see when you look at the inner workings of the site. The ART is in knowing what that data MEANS, and the way that one uses that data to achieve higher rankings
Dry skin treatment
I don’t often plug products here.
The Psychiatric Drug Money Machine
“How many hundreds of thousands of people do you have to kill before it becomes socially wrong?”
Top 50 Psychiatrists Getting Kickbacks from Big Pharma
Might want to think twice about the financial motivation when your doctor wrote that last prescription for you.
Video – Communication Skills
“Yes,” I said, “yes, that’s very true. I could have written that.”
Video: I Don’t Like Organized Religion
This video about “The Cult Killed a Cat” was quite funny. Warning: NSFW. http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/7419981/?ref=nf Have fun!