File under: The Siddhi of PR Hmmm. We wonder who they are talking about:A guru, popular for an admittedly revolutionary breathing technique that unlocks spiritual potential, organized camps across many cities on his birthday. Devotees flew in from all over the world and large crowds congregated at t...

We taped an episode of the Tyra Banks Show last week with Steve Harvey, and an audience member asked what she should wear on a first date. This is a common question and we want to share our advice with all of you. First of all, it doesn't matter how shiny your hair is, what color your nails are pain...

Last time we reflected upon the issue of controlling the appetite for food, and the way in which St. John Cassian saw it as a door either to be closed or opened to other sins.   Before we continue You might find it interesting to know that St. John’s eight devices served as the basis for the...

It's sleep over night at Chez Dump. The regular cast of characters are present, including the gerbils and the dog. We're watching an MST3K movie. Good Lord, if I ever stumbled upon this on my own (the chances of which are slim to freaking none, given how horrible the damned thing is) I would only wa...

This post is in connection with an undergraduate course on politics. The course is related to some work I'm trying to do in preparation for a conference on biopolitics. As I've mention before, I hadn't thought much about biopolitics prior to the conference invitation. So I'm having to reread a lot o...

IT posts disturbing news from the UK. Universities there are required to participate in a detailed assessment that determines how much money they will get. The underlying promise was to reward results: schools producing high quality research would received more funding. Recent results showed that qu...

I stopped watching Bill O’Rielly long ago–and since I don’t have a TV at the moment, I don’t watch any of the Cable Newsertainment channels, whether CNN, MSNBC or Fox. I stopped watching O’Rielly when I realized that he displayed an amazing degree of ignorance or oversi...

Arendt traces two reversals in the vita activa, two reversals that help account for the present condition of world alienation, the attempt to escape the earth and enter the heavens and the attempt to move from the world into the self.1. Homo faber trumps the contemplative life. We don't need to know...

James Howard Kunstler: "Consumerism" Is Dead -- Can Obama Lead Us to a Downscaled Lifestyle? (excerpts) In the broad blogging margins of the web that orbit the mainstream media like the rings of Saturn, an awful lot of reasonable people have begun to ask whether President Obama is a stooge of whatev...

If you have a little girl, I'm sure you can relate to our design team member, Anne Jo. She was having a hard time finding hair clips for her daughter when she needed them. They were all over the house. So, Anne Jo came up with a great solution! Look at this! Anne Jo reused some packaging that so...