The strategy of former President Obama for economic recovery so far has been to punish those who have worked hard to achieve success in this Land of Opportunity by sacrificing and saving and swallowing their pride again and again in order to invest honest sweat into future reward, and give the fruit...

The wife and I were at Pet Smart last night after I got out of class to buy more cat food for Melvin, the Official SEB Cat, as he was running low. While we were there we took our customary stroll by the adoption enclosure housing the cats looking for a home. As we always do we ended up discussing th...

This is a compilation of various news reports on Jesus and/or his mom showing up in random objects: Couple of things struck me as I watched this. First is the fact that it doesn’t take much for a True Believer™ to declare something as being a miracle. Finding a rock that vaguely resemble...

This one broke my irony meter: 16 arrested in fight at nonviolence concert - Houston Chronicle SILVER SPRING, Md. — Montgomery County police say 16 people were arrested after a fight broke out during a concert held to promote nonviolence and to remember a Silver Spring teen killed last year. T...

Yes it’s that time of year again! The return of the dreaded Daylight Savings Time. A pointless annual ritual of sleep schedule disruption for reasons that aren’t probably all that beneficial these days. There was a rumor that Barack Obama might get rid of it altogether, but apparently it...

... is that it acts like my own personal weather forecast. ***Dave talks about the weather fairly often and when he does I know that within four or five days we’ll be experiencing the same weather here. For example, here’s what he wrote four days ago: While the Eastern US is snowed under...

Introduction A l’heure où l’on gesticule plus que l’on agit pour remédier aux errements du système capitaliste mondial, les défis environnementaux occupent avec constance l’espace publico/médiatique. Les dérèglements climatiques, l’appauvrissement de la biodiversité, la gestion non...

Life is made up of stories.  Stories of hope ... stories of love... stories of challenge. While we yearn for hope and search for love, many stories are about the challenge. This is such a story. To tell this story, we need to introduce you to Alma.  Alma has been a secretary at a school ...

SEB regular Sandy sent this in and I thought it was worth sharing. It’s from an appearance last year on Conan O’Brien and in it Louis CK talks about how we live in such amazing times and yet no one seems to appreciate it: I found copies of better quality, but the ability to embed them ha...

Not happy with the Chat With God Online webpage we linked to a few days ago? Then try leaving God a voice mail instead. A Dutch artist has taken it upon himself to set up an answering service for God: Van der Dong said he set up the number to give people an opportunity to take pause and contemplate ...