05 May 09 - 22:21Tale of Two Brains
Here's a video everyone should see. This guy tells the absolute truth, in a way that will make you laugh your ass off. If you DON'T laugh, you've got a problem! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxtUH_bHBxs
20 May 08 - 08:25Men Can Never Win
This may have been intended as a joke but some of these will ring true for most every man in our American culture:
- If you work too hard, you're not spending enough time with her. If you don't work hard enough, you're a good-for-nothing bum.
- If she has a boring repetitive job with low pay, it's exploitation. If you have a boring repetitive job with low pay, you should get off your butt and find something better.
- If you get a promotion ahead of her, it's favoritism. If she gets a job ahead of you, it's equal opportunity.
- If you mention how nice she looks, it's sexual harassment. If you keep quiet, it's male indifference.
- If you cry, you're a wimp. If you don't, you're insensitive.
- If you make a decision without consulting her, you're a chauvinist. If she makes a decision without consulting you, she's a liberated woman. ...
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02 April 08 - 13:26Your Perspective
“How we choose to see the world creates the world we see.”
(Barry Neil Kaufman, “Happiness Is A Choice”)
I love that quote. It’s so true, too. To use the old adage about “seeing the world through rose-colored glasses,” we decide what color glasses we’re going to wear. It’s called perspective.
How perspective works is we go through life experiencing things then filtering the experience – how we perceive it – through the perspective gained from doing that same thing with previous experiences.
Huh? Okay, let’s say your early experiences in life were really bad: a parent abandoned you or died when you were little, your house burned down when you were 5 and you lost all your stuff. This is going to affect how you feel about relationships with people and it will give you a frightened outlook on fire. Over-simple examples but you get the picture.
Put another way, if your perspective on life is happy, positive, loving and trusting, you will be easily pleased, ... (more)
29 March 08 - 16:37Great New Stuff!
Wow! It’s been a long time since I posted anything new here. I guess that’s what happens when I run an online business AND work a full-time job. And when I DO have some free time, I have a wife who’s been waiting (patiently or not) to spend it with me.
Speaking of my wife, she’s from Peru and we thought we’d go into the business of importing and selling some nice Peruvian alpaca wool products. Like on eBay. We thought it would give her a chance to have her own little business. But for one reason or another (or several reasons) that didn’t work out very well, and I’ve got some money invested in product that’s sitting here in my office. And it cost so much in international transaction costs and shipping, I couldn’t believe it!
I decided it’s time to turn that over and get my investment back so we’re offering these really nice, high-quality handbags, stretch caps (called "chullos") and ponchos at just over cost. ...
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11 October 07 - 12:59Cheating Wives
These are the eyebrow-raising findings of a team of German researchers from the Hamburg-based GEWIS Institute for Social Research. Reuters reports that in a survey of 1,427 men and women between the ages of 25 and 35, fully 53 percent of women said they had been unfaithful to their partner, compared with 59 percent of men.
But surely they must feel guilty? Wrong. Susan Shapiro Barash, a gender studies professor at Marymount Manhattan College, interviewed 50 women who cheated on their husbands. She says 90 percent felt no guilt, a finding that even surprised her. "They felt very entitled and felt entitled because they had been so unhappy in the marriage. It's a fantasy, it's just much more liberating," she explained on ABC's "Good Morning America."
Barash wrote all about it in "A Passion for More: Wives Reveal the Affairs that Make or Break Their Marriages." She said that while 65 percent of the cheating wives said sex was better with their lover than their husband, fully 45 percent of the ... (more)
