The whole Rihanna-Chris Brown thing is very bothersome, and apparently I’m not the only one to think so. Even Oprah is getting in on it. Yesterday’s show was about domestic violence and, if like me, you missed it because you were at work, you can read the transcript here and get access to extra information… Read More Rihanna & Chris Brown: Oprah’s getting involved
Careful what you put up… The officer who posted too much on MySpace My next question: how to do a cleanup. Stat.
The demise of the written word is predicted every couple of years since the inception of the Internet. I remember reading an gloomy article about how young people hoping to become internationally known published authors à la Stephen King should forget about that dream and settle for making moderate amounts of money with a book… Read More Note to all aspiring authors: there is still hope
While I had heard of Oprah’s Soul Series webcasts before, I never had taken the time to watch any of them. It mostly has to do with the fact that, when it comes to thought-provoking material, I’m more of a reader (it’s so much easier to pause and ponder while reading I find). But when… Read More ‘For an organized religion, we’re quite disorganized’: Rainn Wilson’s take on the Baha’í Faith, Spirituality and Dwight Scherute on Oprah’s Soul Series
There is a great gem of a show on the CBC that I have been watching almost since its beginnings that has great potential to be reviewed on Sahar’s blog. But, to be honest, there is just so much to talk about in the mere 20-something minutes that the show lasts that I can’t ever… Read More Review: Little Mosque on the Prairie, Season 3, Episode 18
You might be wondering why I would put such an article up. Well, it’s simple really. Remember the persecution of the Bahá’ís in Iran? Well, I thought I’d go a little beyond my little sphere – i.e. the Bahá’í community – and see if I find anything else about other groups or people who are… Read More From The Lancet: Iranian doctors’ conviction could damage public health
There is such a thing as healthy curiosity. And it’s only normal that we be curious about our role models, trying to find out as much as we can about them to learn to apply what makes them so great. But there is something wrong about our role models being misbehaving celebrities and there is… Read More Celebrity Gossip: How much is too much?
More thoughts about it later, but until then, watch the interview here and check out his website, Soulpancake, here.
… And my personal questions: why, and what does it imply? America become less Christian, survey finds America is a less Christian nation than it was 20 years ago, and Christianity is not losing out to other religions, but primarily to a rejection of religion altogether, a survey published Monday found. Three out of four… Read More From CNN: America becoming less Christian
An interview with Michael Hardt. Adbusters Contributing Editor Micah White asked Michael Hardt whether he thinks Generation O has revolutionary potential… Of course! I’ve been really impressed by the activists in North America, the US in particular, in the last ten years. I think this younger generation’s ability to dispense with notions of purity – moral and… Read More Youth Activiam and the ‘O’ Generation (Obama, not Oprah)