Who thought that putting a snack bar in the Hard Rock Cafe TOILET was a good idea? Really? I could see the good in selling the sanitary napkins, advil, etc. at the counter. Those are the types of items you would find in a bathroom medicine cabinet, so it isn’t a stretch to encounter them in a public toilet. However, the idea of unwrapping a snickers bar in a TOILET and chowing down on it leaves me with a creeping sense of horror.
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Idaho Teacher Sells Advertising Space On Tests : NPR.
I am bothered by this on many levels. First, I go out of my way not to subject my child to the consumerism that is so rampant in our society. He watches TV and as much as possible it is TV with no commercials; I want him to understand American culture and not be picked on in school, but I also don’t want him being indoctrinated into the gimme culture that exists all around us.
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Are you defined by what you lack or by what you have?
In an economy that continues it’s journey up Shit’s Creek with no paddle in sight; in a country that values consumerism and capitalism as fundamental pillars of society; among people who define success according to wealth and status, it’s no wonder a lot of people are depressed. We often define ourselves, or allow others to define us, by the things we lack. We often take what we have for granted.
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A.I.G. Planning Huge Bonuses After $170 Billion Bailout
and contrast…
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My husband has a really bad habit of buying something because it’s a good deal, even if it’s not exactly what he wants. He then spends an exorbitant amount of time and money trying to make it into whatever it was he really, truly wanted. The problem with this scenario is that it always ends up costing more than if he’d just bought what he wanted, and leaves him disillusioned and resentful.
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“Optimists live longer, healthier lives than pessimists, U.S. researchers said on Thursday in a study that may give pessimists one more reason to grumble.” I told you so!
http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSTRE5247NO20090305?rpc=59
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I am not a Jew, but I grew up with a lot of Jews and find a lot of comfort in the familiar observations of the holidays; plus I absolutely love synagogue. I also like the Web site in today’s Link of the Day because it has always provided good information about Judaism in an easily digestible format.
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The other day I read an observation about how adults teach ourselves that our bedrooms and beds should only be for sleeping, but then we turn our childrens’ bedrooms into playrooms and wonder why they fight sleep. Personally, I don’t know that I have ever personally had a problem with my boys sleeping in their rooms after playing in them, but I have historically had problems with insomnia that were exacerbated by treating my room as an office or student lounge and not a bedroom.
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It’s a Tibetan saying. I thought it was doubly apt as the Dalai Lama is set to celebrate 50 years of exile from Tibet and the people of Tibet labor under oppressive restrictions on basic freedoms that we take for granted. But, I also found other meanings to it; I am sure that I could find a million ways to apply this saying to my life. Today, this one application trumped: I wanted to apply this idea of compassion to myself and others who tend to view themselves or others with a critical, skewed, even pessimistic perspective.
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