Ken McLeod: Is Happiness the Goal of Religion, or of Life?
Happiness, I think, is usually associated with a feeling of pleasure and the absence of pain. As such, I think it is both frivolous and unrealistic.
Categories: World Tags: absence, absence of pain, feeling, ken mcleod, life happiness, pain, pleasure, religion
Brad Balfour: Exclusive: Actor Billy Magnussen Gives Hell To Preppies in Twelve
In light of television's fascination with the lives of others, especially those of different economic orders either up or down the scale, the recently released...
Categories: World Tags: bro chris, cop, director joel schumacher, fun, guy, movie, nick mcdonell, pleasure, queens resident, rory culkin
Report: Florida Democratic Senate candidate had insanely awesome parties aboard his pleasure yacht
Too good to check.
Categories: World Tags: democratic senate candidate, fact, pleasure, pleasure yacht, report, Senate, yacht
Michael B. Laskoff: Doing Better Than Barack
Recently, I feel transported back to the Clinton impeachment. You remember: a married man who received oral pleasure from someone other than his wife was...
Categories: World Tags: barack obama, branches of federal government, Bush-Cheney, clinton impeachment, guy, impeachment, job, picking strawberries, pleasure, way
Spain’s World Cup-Winning Goal: Best Served As A Spanish Broadcast
When Spencer Hall argued that we should follow the World Cup on Univision, he knew exactly what he was talking about. Moments ago, I had the pleasure of watching Spain's extra-time goal on a Spanish broadcast. I don't speak Spanish, and it did not ma...
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The Ryan Howard Contract Extension Debate In 141 Seconds
For your viewing pleasure: Warning: features colorful language and adult situations Seems to sum it up nicely. But sometimes a man doesn't have 141 seconds. Sometimes a man is on the go. For that man, and for even more hurried men, I will boil thin...
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Introducing SB Nation Kansas City, Where Zack Greinke K’s The Competition
As you may have noticed, this past week SB Nation has rolled out regional sites across a host of cities -- D.C., Boston, New York, Chicago, Detroit, Arizona, Houston and Dallas. It's all part of our twenty regional sites in twenty days launch. And no...
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Sherman Yellen: Emily’s Stew Will Be Good for You Too
Fine children's books, like this one, teach the lesson that life is much more than oatmeal and putting one's toys away neatly: it is a place full of the bad, the good, and the wonderful, the wonderful often prevailing.
Categories: World Tags: book, classic bestseller, David McPhail, elusive feelings, Emily, Emily Grief, Emily Jane, Emily Jane Why, Emily Phlox, Emily Stew, George Clooney, Lewis Carrol, life, New York, place, pleasure, roaring brook press, Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Rockwell, Tom, Tom Rockwell, World