eChurchWebsites Blog (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Cross post from the excellent Atheism is Dead Blog by Mariano:- Being a well-within-the-box-atheist-group-thinker Richard Dawkins cannot expand his mind outwards to that which a finite universe implies. He continues to looking for God in all the wrong places (and in all the wrong ways). This became apparent again in a statement with which I agree as he [...]
Steam Powered Opinions (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
As if I needed another reason to hate Comcast now when you call their 1-800 number you are greeted by Shaq and Ben Stein.
Backseat Cuddler (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Today’s Backseat Birthday shout outs go to: 1944 - Ben Stein (actor) - 65 1947 - John Larroquette (actor) - 62 1960 - Amy Grant (singer/songwriter) - 49 1965 - Cris Carter (NFL Analyst) - 44 1966 - Billy Burke (actor) - 43 1968 - Jill Hennessy (actress) - 41 1971 - Christina Applegate (actress) - 38 1976 - Donovan McNabb (NFL Eagles [...]
Celebrity VIP Lounge (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Actress Christina Applegate is 38. Actress Kathryn Crosby is 76. Singer Percy Sledge is 69. Singer Bob Lind is 65. Actor-game show host Ben Stein is 65. Actor John Larroquette is 62. Singer Amy Grant is 49. Singer Mark Lanegan (Queens of the Stone Age and Screaming Trees) is 45. Singer Tim Armstrong of Rancid is [...]
Baxojayz - Centricity (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
delitescent (del-i-TES-uhnt) adjective Hidden; latent. Etymology: From Latin delitescent-, stem of delitescens, present participle of delitescere (to hide away). Trivia What is the only rock that can float on water? Pumice. Today in History Hollywood Ten : screenwriters were blacklisted by producers for being suspected Communists; the previous day they were cited and jailed for refusing to cooperate...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Actress Kathryn Crosby is 76. Singer Percy Sledge is 69. Game show host Ben Stein is 65. Actor John Larroquette is 62. Singer Amy Grant is 49. Singer Stacy Lattisaw is 43. Actress Jill Hennessy (Crossing Jordan) is 40. Actress Christina Applegate is 38. Actress Katie Cassidy (Melrose Place) is 23.
SeekingAlpha ETFs (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Tom Lydon (ETF Trends) submits: After a tumultuous year in the market, it’s wise for exchange traded fund (ETF) investors to take a step back and examine what went wrong and what can be done to avoid those same mistakes in the future. Stock markets around the world have rallied, economies are coming back to life, the credit floodgates are flowing freely, banks are strengthening and consumers...
One Salient Oversight (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
One way to check on the various beliefs of German Nazism is to look at the books they banned and/or burned. Thanks to someone at Reddit , a link has been provided to a site which translates the original German book-banning guidelines into English . What we find is interesting: "The literature of Marxism, Communism and Bolshevism." Well I guess that pretty much confirms the idea that Nazism...
Pam's House Blend (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Check out an email I got this week from an ex-coworker and friend of almost 20 years: ======================================= I found this to be very truthful and interesting. We need to stand up for our beliefs instead of letting the more vocal become the majority. The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday Morning Commentary. My confession: I am a Jew, and every single...
The Big Picture (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
There is a small cadre of Economists — original thinkers, contrarians, out of the box theorists — I respect a great deal. It is a modest list ranging from Richard Thaler to David Rosenberg to Robert Shiller, with lots of econ wonks in between. This morning, however, I find myself somewhat disagreeing with the main premise [...]
startupspark.com (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
While I’m not always a huge fan of Ben Stein, he does come up with some interesting insights every now and again, and he does have some clever and funny things to say about them. For Fortune Magazine, he recently offered these 4 lessons that he learned from the recession: Economic forecasting is difficult. Financial market forecasting is more troublesome than economic forecasting. The financial...
Underbelly (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
I don't regularly read Wired , but idling through (and not paying for) a paper copy at Barnes & Noble this morning, I ran across the most interesting thing I've read all day: the story about the contest to find Evan Ratliff , the writer who challenged readers to crack his scheme to scrub his identity--including a 60-percent-Ben-Stein double-dare to pay the prize (in part) out of his own money (paper...
Consumerism Commentary (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
The United States must be approaching the end of the recession when economists begin offering their retrospectives. Even if the data are pointing to an end to the recession, in technical terms, the economy is a long way from recovery. Just look around at the people out of work. Even those who have maintained their [...] Rating: 0.0/ 5 (0 votes cast) The Consumerism Commentary Podcast is in full swing...
Adam Smith's Lost Legacy (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Ben Stein writes on “Four lessons from the recession” in (19 November) in Fortune HERE which includes this observation: “ And another little note ... my much-missed father used to tell me with great approval Adam Smith's famous quote regarding prophecies of doom for America, "there is a lot of ruin in a nation ." Comment Another example of a famous quotation from Adam Smith...
CNNMoney.com (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
As I write this from real estate disaster-ridden but still-glorious Los Angeles, I read much speculation that the recession is over.
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