Epicurus told us that anxiety is worse than bodily pain. Present suffering soon passes; anxiety lasts a long time and undermines an otherwise happy life. He was right, and pharmaceuticals are not the answer; they only mask the problem. Many of them become less effective with time and I can think of one positively dangerous …
During an interview with Sen. John McCain on Monday’s NBC Nightly News, Brian Williams noted that “the videotape clip of your comment about being in Iraq 100 years if need be, of course, is still kicking around,” and then asked, “[G]iven your support for the surge and where you believe this nation is in Iraq …
>???????? ????? ???????? Milton said that “a meet and happy conversation is the chief and noblest end of marriage,” by which he meant that physical love is all well and good but true marriage is a meeting of the minds. He knew whereof he spoke because after he married her he discovered that his attractive …
Republicans in Missouri are trying to prevent 240,000 (mostly black) voters from voting by insisting on identity cards at polling stations. In order to get a card you have to have a birth certificate. Statement from Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan: “As Missouri’s chief elections official, it’s my job to ensure fair elections, and …
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The 15th Century Aztec poet, Ayocuan Cuetzpaltzin, suggested that there is a time when humankind can touch the enduring truths that underlie our fleeting lives. That time is the moment of artistic creation. “From whence come the flowers (the artistic creations) that enrapture man?†asks the poet. “The songs that intoxicate, the lovely songs?†And …
