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An Honest Congress Would Be A Miracle

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If someone could come up with a remedy for an honest Congress, I would give some respect to the notion of having witnessed a miracle.

Robert Ingersoll was asked for his opinion of miracles in the 1870's.  His reply included an assessment of "miracles" described in the bible, followed by a parable of sorts.  A portion of Ingersoll's response, taken from "Sixty-Five Press Interviews with Robert G. Ingersoll" (AAP, 1983), went like this:

Why Nothing Less Than A 100 Percent Public Option Will Control Health Care Costs And Provide Adequate Medical Care For All Ameri

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The health system reform bill just passed by the House of Representatives is too little, too late at too great a cost for too little benefit.

A REAL Wellness Tip - From Friedrich Nietzsche

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You will not gain insights like this at worksite wellness sessions - and that's a pity. But, it's here for your consideration.

If REAL wellness were offered at worksite wellness functions, employees would learn life skills large and small, particularly in the areas of philosophy and human happiness. As it is, worksite wellness is largely a medical endeavor focused on risk reduction and prevention, neither of which contributes much to the work setting as a learning environment. If philosophy were on the worksite wellness agenda, workers would have continuous opportunities to increase their capacities for reason, exuberance and liberty toward higher quality of life.

An Afternoon of Exuberance In St. Petersburg

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Andy Borowitz, Taylor Branch, former Senator Bob Graham, Olivia Gentile, Jane Velez-Mitchell and I at a festival of reading.

Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) raised eyebrows in Iowa today when she refused to respond to a supermarket cashier's question about her preference for paper or plastic bags, calling the inquiry 'totally hypothetical.'

Die Gedanken Sind Frei: REAL Wellness, Liberty And The White Rose Society

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Americans are fond of reminding themselves that liberty comes at a price. Other citizens in unlikely placcs have also paid the price of freedom.

Die gedanken sind frei
My thoughts freely flower
Die gedanken sind frei
My thoughts give me power
No scholar can map them
No hunter can trap them
No man can deny
Die gedanken sind frei.

I think as I please
And this gives me pleasure
My conscience decrees
This right I must treasure
My thoughts will not cater
To duke or dictator
No person can deny
Die gedanken sind frei

Tyrants can take me
And throw me in prison
My thoughts will burst forth

Why I Am, Like Ingersoll, "Nothing But A Secularist Who Goes Around Promoting Secularism"

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Don recalls an historic occasion featuring the profound eloquence of Robert G. Ingersoll to explain why he is a secularist

One
highly charged word in this country, used by the devout to label
non-believers with a term they consider offensive or insulting, is
"atheist." When I was a teen in Catholic high school, the word was
usually linked with an economic system, as in "commie atheist." I
frankly did not know much about either, but I was irreverent enough
(i.e., asking impertinent questions like "how do you know that" or "but
who made God?") that at least one nun warned me that I might become one

The Czar of REAL Wellness Rules - With A Little Help From A Subject

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Don offers his opinion on the matter at issue in the hotly debated campaign for governor of New Jersey.

While nobody asked him to "rule" on the propriety of a campaign ad in New Jersey, "The Czar" has nonetheless decided to do so. For that matter, nobody asked him to assume the title of "Czar of REAL Wellness," either, but these are trying times—a true leader does what he thinks his country needs in a time of peril. Therefore, the "Czar of REAL Wellness" shall offer his opinion on the matter at issue in the hotly debated campaign for governor of New Jersey.

Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story

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A sound social order and a functional economic system are prerequisites, it seems, if we are to reap the benefits of physical and mental well being.


LeBron (James) decided not to go to college. He found seasonal work in Cleveland. 

(Seen at the bottom of the end-title updates on what became of the players featured in the film, More Than A Game, Review by Joe Morganstern On Film, Wall Street Journal, October 2, 2009, p. W3.)

Pursuing REAL Wellness In Australia: My Pretty Cool September Odyssey Downunder

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I went looking for wellness in all the right places last month. This is an overview. Enjoy.

As some readers might know, I spent most
of this month in Australia, plus a few days in North
Carolina on the way home. Reports on the theme my truly cool experiences
abroad while you stayed home are best limited

Bill Maher Should Be America's Surgeon General!

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Sometimes it takes a comedian to break through the tangle of detail to the heart of the matter.

Bill Maher, my choice for Czar of REAL Wellness if such an office ever becomes a top position in the Executive branch of government, has condensed in one NEW RULE a central idea I have been promoting for at least 30 years in a dozen books, 74 printed newsletters, 503 weekly electronic newsletters and about 500 speeches. Sheesh—I wish I had a sense of humor and could write hilarious copy that cuts to the quick in the Maher manner.

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