Creative Deconstruction

Both Napoleon's army, and the Germans underestimated the great distances and harsh climate of Russia. Freezing cold, and sweltering summers, and the rainy seasons in between that turned the roads into a soup that could swallow canons and vehicles. I was walking on the southern steps of Russia listening to the snow crunching beneath my shoes when my guide told me to stop. Staring off into the distance I could see for miles and miles. Then my guide told me to look down. As my eyes adjusted to the blinding white of the snow I began to see shapes. My guide picked up one of these shapes, and I saw that it was a bone... A human bone. We began walking around this field picking up thighbones, clavicles, jawbones, and skulls. They were everywhere! Not just bones, but horse shoes, leather straps, and jackboots. Then my guide said "This is a tiny tiny fraction of how far this bone field stretches." Looking off into the horizon I could see bones sticking out of the earth for mile...

Foolish People News is becoming like the Jerry Springer Show. It doesn't feel good to be labeled without evidence. Famous Quotes "SHUT UP! JUST SHUT UP!" "Be quiet! I'm right and your wrong!" "I stand for good! You stand for evil!" Indiana University research study of, O'Reilly during a six-month period. Published in the Journal Journalism Studies ... "The seven propaganda devices include: * Name calling -- giving something a bad label to make the audience reject it without examining the evidence; * Glittering generalities -- the opposite of name calling; * Card stacking -- the selective use of facts and half-truths; * Bandwagon -- appeals to the desire, common to most of us, to follow the crowd; * Plain folks -- an attempt to convince an audience that they, and their ideas, are "of the people"; * Transfer -- carries over the authority, sanction and prestige of something we respect or dispute to ...

(10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) The Man Who Lit Up The World H ave you ever been wrongfully blamed for something you didn't do? Have you ever had your name dragged through the mud by someone else for their personal gain or amusement? Well... If your name were Nikola Tesla, the person doing this to you would be named Thomas Edison, and I did the numerology on Edison's name. In numerology "Thomas Edison" breaks down to "Punk Bitch". Many people believe that Thomas Edison invented the light bulb. Throughout school I was told by my teachers, and read it in history books that Thomas Edison invented the light bulb. But, that's not true, matter of fact it's a blatant lie . It was Nikola Tesla who invented the light bulb, and that's not all Tesla did. Nikola Tesla was a Serbian immigrant who arrived in America in 1884, had four cents in his pocket, some mathematical computations, a drawing of an idea for a flying machine, and a head full of genius...

Why yes? Why no?

Lecture by: Dan Gilbert Dan Gilbert presents research and data from his exploration of happiness -- sharing some surprising tests and experiments that you can also try on yourself. Watch through to the end for a sparkling Q&A with some familiar TED faces. Harvard psychologist Dan Gilbert says our beliefs about what will make us happy are often wrong -- a premise he supports with intriguing research, and explains in his accessible and unexpectedly funny book, Stumbling on Happiness .

I n case you even care about this kinda crap. I try and pretend I don't, but I do (otherwise why would I even be writing about this right?) , and sometimes I hate that. You can stand in one of four places when it comes to the subject of politics... (a) You deeply care and get involved, because the decisions of others affect your life. (b) You kinda care and kinda get involved, because you are mostly in control of your life. (c) You are above it and don't get involved, because you are in complete control of your life, and are handling the issues within it. (d) You are a homeless schizophrenic and don't even know what I'm talking about cause your not even reading this. (a) People can be as annoying and dogmatic as a religious person trying to convert you. Yet, (a) people are indispensable and unbeknownst to (b) , (c) , and (d) people, they are the ones keeping government from becoming totally fascist and tyrannical. Furthermore, in the arena of polit...

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