crib Def: home, domicile, or dwelling Ex: Dang du…your CRIB is phat YO! (Your house is very pleasing to the eye; Contemporary flare, yet structurally sound. May I have a look around my good man?) [From Urban Dictionary] Good afternoon class, and welcome to today’s seminar: Harnessing Mys...

Filed under: Magazines, Marketing and advertising With so many magazines folding, this might seem like a strange time to go ahead and start three new ones. Especially when you have an enormous debt load that is rated as junk by Standard & Poor's and Moody's. But Reader's Digest is launching thre...

SCRIPTURE … Judges. I am currently reading through this OT book very slowly, traversing this period of the Warlords with a trusty handbook (Bruce Waltke’s chapter in An Old Testament Theology). Psalms. My goal is to read and meditate on a single Psalm each week, reading Derek Kidner’s commenta...

1. What inspired me to write this book:  Van Gogh is in all of us, I think.  The same as Van Gogh whose internal passion cost him an ear, there ws something inside me that needed release and, voila, there was the material which spurted out.  I was in Las Vegas on business one week-end, staying at...

Here are some of the people writing about some of the stuff I wish I had time to write about, for February 24th through February 25th: This is Fucking Insane - Whackos Defending Buttars: Kill the Gays! - Obama Is Right to Take on the Very Rich - Harvey Fierstein: A Letter to Our President - Brandt G...

How can I get my digestion back in functioning order? For the previous 13 months I drank an enormous quantity of alcohol which I calculated out to averaging seven or eight drinks a day; and not going more than a handful of days alcohol-free. It was quite the bender. It served its purpose. I had my f...

Here are some of the people writing about some of the stuff I wish I had time to write about, for February 20th through February 23rd: Best actor Sean Penn - Winslet wins best actress - Family accepts Heath Ledger’s Oscar - Obama: Government cannot forget lessons of Katrina - Prosecution for B...

Have you read (or written) something savory lately? Send your Digest tips to digest@ethicurean.com. Grass-fed meat still linked to climate change: Grass-fed cattle have a higher carbon footprint than grain-fed, says Nathan Pelletier of Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia. Yes, you read that right. H...

I’m respecting your limited time by publishing this weekly digest on the Social Networking space, which I cover as an industry analyst. By creating this digest (I started this over a year ago) it really helps me to stay on top of the space I cover. I’ve created a new category called Digest (view...

Here are some of the people writing about some of the stuff I wish I had time to write about, for February 16th through February 17th: Obscene Wealth Can Be a Deadly Sin - The Oligarchy’s Bailout Ball - Donald Trump's Casino Company Files For Bankruptcy - How appropriate. The Price of Amer...