Jonathan Senior's Profile

Anger is the feeling we experience when events in our world are not going according to our plans or rules. It's as if we have an inner idea of how things, events and people should be - and when they don't 'march to our tune' we get angry and either feel frustrated or try to change them.

You may feel that you are in the RIGHT when you get angry. But the key question is: does it make you HAPPY? Does it contribute towards your happiness and that of the people in your life?

dismantles a favorite Gen-X defense mechanism, humor,
when the narrator explains the concept of a "single-serving friend"—those
strangers that exist between take-off and landing, then evaporate like a
complimentary pat of butter:

Tyler:
Oh I get it.
It's very clever.

Narrator:
Thank you.

Tyler:
How's that
working out for you?

Narrator:
What?

Tyler:
Being
clever.

The
Blair Witch Project
opens with this epigram, written in elemental white-on-black typeface:

In
October of 1994, three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near
Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary. A year later their
footage was found.

Genius.
With a premise that good, making the movie almost seems superfluous.

Studying English taught us how to write and think better, and to make articulate many of the inchoate impulses and confusions of our post-adolescent minds. We began to see, as we had not before, how such books could shape and refine our thinking. We began to understand why generations of people coming before us had kept them in libraries and bookstores and in classes such as ours

Frank was accused by Rep. John Hostettler (R-IN) of having a "radical homosexual agenda"; Frank responded "I do have things I would like to see adopted on behalf of LGBT people: they include the right to marry the individual of our choice; the right to serve in the military to defend our country; and the right to a job based solely on our own qualifications.^[10][30] I acknowledge that this is an agenda, but I do not think that any self-respecting radical in history would have considered advocating people's rights to get married, join the army, and earn a living as a terribly inspiring revolutionary platform."^[30]

Pop is defined by success in the marketplace-- meaning some changeable combination of the labels, the radio, the gossip blogs, the folks who buy music for ads and TV shows, and the people they are trying to please: you and me.

It's not a free marketplace, or a fair one; it's not rational, and it often ignores or destroys quality. But as soon as you step aside from it, as soon as you start to say, "OK, this stuff is proper pop and this stuff isn't," you're defining something else.

We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. He is already on the way; he is like Mohammed. The emotion in Germany is Islamic; warlike and Islamic. They are all drunk with wild god. That can be the historic future.^[33]