Author Archives: MZR

written by a friar in a Nebraska monastery: If I had my life to live over again, I’d try to make more mistakes next time. I would relax, I would limber up, I would be sillier than I have been … Continue reading →

British inventor Josh Silver, a former professor of physics at Oxford University, has come up with a game-changer of a product design with his water-lensed glasses. Silver has devised a pair of glasses which rely on the principle that the … Continue reading →

I just heard a wonderful way to frame the response of “no”.  Instead of believing you heard “no” as an answer to your question, think of it as another question. As Zig Ziglar says; when a person tells you no, … Continue reading →

Posted on Aug 31, 2009  by Chris Hedges Globalization and unfettered capitalism have been swept into the history books along with the open-market theory of the 1920s, the experiments of fascism, communism and the New Deal. It is time for a new … Continue reading →

The same skewed thinking that supports a Saddam-9/11 link explains the power of health-care myths.   Aug 25, 2009 by Sharon Begley   Not being a complete idiot (contrary to the assertion of many readers I’ve been hearing from), I was … Continue reading →

The overview of the book by Chris Hedges is so well articulated I have to share it. By Tirdad Derakhshani Inquirer Staff Writer Real power in America doesn’t reside in citizens, or the government, but in corporations. So argues Chris … Continue reading →

Read this brilliant and humorous chapter from Chris Hedges’ new book and marvel as the Pulitzer-prize-winning war correspondent makes sense of reality television. Adapted from “Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle,” available from Nation … Continue reading →

I am grateful for Dr. Wayne Dyer.  He has been inspiring me for almost 30 years.  In his latest book EXCUSES BEGONE he tells the following story about the value of compassion. It seems that a woman who lived a … Continue reading →

By Bill Maher Posted: July 23, 2009 11:56 PM   How about this for a New Rule: Not everything in America has to make a profit. It used to be that there were some services and institutions so vital to … Continue reading →

Posted on Jul 16, 2009 By William Pfaff ATHENS—The peculiar charm of the anthropomorphic gods of classical Greece is that they were so like us, exemplifying our weaknesses and follies, inspiring the mortal occupants of Attic Greece to the invention of philosophy—the … Continue reading →