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Anonymous Source Contributor Last Modified: 01:09 AM EDT, 21 May 2012 Originally reblogged this from another site, but subsequently found other versions of this inspirational list of life lessons. None of the versions have any attribution; however, this list is purportedly handed down from Ancient Sanskrit. Thank you Delicious Goodies Galore for turning me onto [...]

What made America? What makes us? These two questions are at the heart of the new PBS series Faces of America with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The Harvard scholar turns to the latest tools of genealogy and genetics to explore the family histories of 12 renowned Americans — professor and poet Elizabeth Alexander, chef Mario Batali, comedian Stephen Colbert, novelist Louise Erdrich, journalist Malcolm Gladwell, actress Eva Longoria, musician Yo-Yo Ma, director Mike Nichols, Her Majesty Queen Noor, television host/heart surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz, actress Meryl Streep, and figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi. Source: PBS @ http://www.pbs.org/wnet/facesofamerica/

Reblogged from Talesfromthelou's Blog: If you are not angry and scared by now, you are not paying attention to what is happening in front of our eyes. 13th January 2012 By Michael Snyder – BlacklistedNews.com Back in 1983, approximately 50 corporations controlled the vast majority of all news media in the United States. Today, ownership [...]

“Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box.” ~ Italian Proverb

Obvious ways breed obvious opposition. Noisy preparation is the armament of the hubristic man.
To defeat an opponent thus self-inflated, a wise combatant, sublimates all hint of power beneath the veneer of the demeaned.

A man found a cocoon of a butterfly. One day a small opening appeared. He sat and watched the butterfly for several hours as it struggled to squeeze its body through the tiny hole. Then it stopped, as if it couldn’t go further. So the man decided to help the butterfly. He took a pair [...]

Ayanna Nahmias, Editor-in-Chief Last Modified: 23:53 PM EDT, 15 August 2011 The surrealist movement is based on psychologist Dr. Sigmund Freud‘s theories on free association, dream analysis, and the unconscious.  By tapping into the unconscious and portraying it unfettered through painting and photography, the viewer is afforded the opportunity to live vicariously in the waking [...]

I long ago abandoned the notion of a life without storms, or a world without dry and killing seasons. Life is too complicated, too constantly changing, to be anything but what it is. And I am, by nature, too mercurial to be anything but deeply wary of the grave unnaturalness involved in any attempt to exert too much control over essentially uncontrollable forces. There will always be propelling, disturbing elements, and they will be there until, as Lowell put it, the watch is taken from the wrist. It is, at the end of the day, the individual moments of restlessness, of bleakness, of strong persuasions and maddened enthusiasms, that inform one’s life, change the nature and direction of one’s work, and give final meaning and color to one’s loves and friendships. ~ Kay Redfield Jamison

This morning Americans were greeted with recaps of CNN’s sobering and scathing report about child sex trafficking on Craigslist. This is not the first time that this allegation has made headlines, however, last night’s exposé signaled the beginning of a frontal assault on a long smoldering problem of Craigslist facilitating the trafficking and sale of children for sex.

Last month, two young girls sold for sex on Craigslist wrote letters to CEO Jim Buckmaster and Craig Newmark. One of them, M.C. who was first forced into prostitution at 11, told them she was forced to post her own ads to Craigslist during the day, and then answer them at night. Her pimp drove her around the country for years, using Craigslist as the primary means to advertise her. If she didn’t post on Craigslist, M.C.’s pimp would beat her and dunk her in ice water baths. The website was a central figure in the years of slavery and abuse she suffered.

It is in the space between dream and reality where most people falter and give up. Many people prefer the illusory concept of ‘rags-to-riches‘ because it focuses on the end result and not the intervening process. Rags-to-riches is a convention which has been employed in literature and currently promoted through a plethora of ‘reality’ competition programs which hinge on Americans’ confidence in their ability to move up and out of the class into which they were born. This construct is a part of the national identity which lays the foundation of the “American Dream“.