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Category Archives: Culture
Meaning Is Healthier Than Happiness
The Atlantic has an article on “Meaning Is Healthier Than Happiness” (from 2013): People who are happy but have little-to-no sense of meaning in their lives have the same gene expression patterns as people who are enduring chronic adversity.
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Work Less, Do More, Live Better
Patience Schell discusses modernity’s “long-hours culture and the cult of busyness.”
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James Corden (White Male, 40-ish) Set For CBS ‘Late Late Show’ Slot
British writer/actor/comedian James Corden will be replacing the (abysmally unfunny) Craig Ferguson on CBS’s The Late Late Show. So, we have: Jimmy Fallon: white (40-ish) David Letterman: white (60-ish) Seth Meyers: white (40-ish) Jimmy Kimmel: white (40-ish) Carson Daly: white … Continue reading
Atlanta Hawks Owner Bruce Levenson… Who’s Next?
Atlanta Hawks owner Bruce Levenson is selling the team… all because of an email he sent. Levenson admits he sent the email to team execs back in 2012, urging them to get more suburban white fans at games. He then … Continue reading
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Were We Happier in the Stone Age?
Yuval Noah Harari asks “Were we happier in the stone age?” Even if we take into account solely the citizens of today’s affluent societies, Romantics may point out that our comfort and security have their price. Homo sapiens evolved as … Continue reading
CA Looks to Ban Confederate Flag
In the ‘as-goes-CA-so-goes-the-nation‘ dept: CULLMAN, Ala. — California is looking to bar the “Stars and Bars.” A bill sits on Gov. Jerry Brown’s desk to ban California from displaying or selling the Confederate flag or objects with images of it. … Continue reading
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Gin & Richard Burton
Sinclair McKay reviews Gin, Glorious Gin: How Mother’s Ruin Became the Spirit of London by Olivia Williams: T S Eliot once told someone at a party that his inspiration came from “gin and drugs”… There is also fascinating historical detail about … Continue reading
Travelodge Removes Bibles From Hotel Rooms
Day by day, they chip away: The decision by one of Britain’s largest hotel chains to remove Bibles from its rooms has sparked complaints from Christians. Travelodge, which operates 500 hotels, says the Bibles were removed for “diversity reasons,” citing … Continue reading
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Norm Macdonald & Marc Maron on Robin Williams
Of all the celebrity — and most importantly, fellow comic — remembrances of Robin Williams today, this story by Norm Macdonald, whom I’m a huge fan of, brought tears to my eyes. On CNN earlier tonight, I heard Bob Zmuda, … Continue reading
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Lauren Bacall (1924 – 2014)
And today we lost the girl with ‘the look’, as Billy Wilder put it, a look rivaled only by a husky voice that belied her young age and oozed with sexuality: During screen tests for To Have and Have Not … Continue reading