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22 Oct 09

Kodak Zi8 1080p Pocket Camcorder Review: Your Move, Flip - Kodak zi8 - Gizmodo

As of today (Oct. 22), you can get one of these at BestBuy.com for $159. I wonder if that price is also available in stores. This post is from August, 2009.

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Bright-Sided: The Negative Consequences Of Positive Thinking - Bright-sided - Jezebel

I love Barbara Ehrenreich, and this is a great review of her most recent book. I'd like to do a post on this myself.

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  • Ehrenreich also writes persuasively that the popularity of positive thinking in corporate America — she cites the rise of "self-described management gurus" like Tony Robbins and the book Who Moved My Cheese? as examples — has served to blind workers to their ever-decreasing job security.
  • By and large, America's white-collar corporate workforce drank the Kool-Aid, as the expression goes, and accepted positive thinking as a substitute for their former affluence and security. They did not take to the streets, shift their political allegiance in large numbers, or show up at work with automatic weapons in hand. As one laid-off executive told me with quiet pride, "I've gotten over my negative feelings, which were so dysfunctional." Positive thinking promised them a sense of control in a world where the "cheese" was always moving. They may have had less and less power to chart their own futures, but they had been given a worldview — a belief system, almost a religion — that claimed they were in fact infinitely powerful, if they could only master their own minds.
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Christian Popa, "Are Americans Faking Religiosity?," reasonWeekly (Oct. 15, 2009)

The argument is that if you take the number of people who affirm on surveys that they attend church weekly, you end up with a figure much too high to be accommodated in all American churches put together. The weakness seems to be that of course we don't really know how many people can fit into all the churches, or how many services they hold per week, or whatever. Still, it's an interesting idea.

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Black Market Kidneys » Flannery O’Connor Audio

Two radio addresses by Flannery O'Connor. These are mp3 versions of the files originally posted at The Morning Oil http://bit.ly/i9hBs

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RELIGION IN AMERICAN HISTORY: In Guns We Trust

A great piece by historian Jon Pahl reflecting on the murder of Meleanie Hain, the Lebanon, PA mother who became a gun rights cause celebre when she open-carried her loaded pistol at her five-year-old's soccer game. (The local sheriff subsequently revoked her permit for showing "poor judgment; a judge reinstated it.) Hain was recently killed in her home by her husband, who was also a gun enthusiast.

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