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If you feel like taking a weird, dangerous journey through world religions and running into some of the very odd characters populating them--if you have a taste for paradox and think that questioning authority should be an Olympic sport--then hop on board.
Kobun was to Buddhism as Jobs was to the computer business: a renegade and maverick. It wasn't long before the two became friends--a relationship that was not built to last. This graphic book is a reimagining of that friendship.
Over the years, I discovered something: Many people are nicer to strangers than they are to their spouses.
Invented just 30 years ago by an obscure Austrian curtain-rod manufacturer with little firearm experience, the Glock semiautomatic pistol has become in every sense America's gun.
I have just published a collection of love letters from a Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize winner to the writer Brenda Ueland. There have been literally tens of thousands of tweets, blog posts, and letters to the editor flying through cyberspace debating the decision.
"O-Team Headquarters" was written in big green letters on a side wall whiteboard. I wondered aloud if the lab had made T-shirts yet. "No, not yet," said Wise. "But that's a great idea!"
The dad sees the boy's purple game controller and starts in on the him about how he needs to pick something different. Something more manly. Something with guns and fighting.
To begin with, he talks to you - yes, you. Not at you, like most soliloquisers, or to everyone in general, or to himself (Hamlet being the best exemplar of that). It's as if he's putting a hand to the side of his mouth, drawing you close.
"Whisperers" are serial killers with a special talent: they kill through other people, awakening in them the archaic and apparently soothing desire to kill. We are all potential murderers.
You don't need to be a genius to tell whether your spouse is being unfaithful. The signs are usually pretty obvious. But some people are just plain dense.
Just because you're married to someone and connect with him or her emotionally, spiritually, and physically doesn't mean you can tolerate living with your spouse.
Monogamy is failing men. Not only is it failing them, but it's a "socially compelled sexual incarceration" that can lead to a life of anger and contempt, or so says Eric Anderson, an American sociologist at England's University of Winchester.
In 1978, at the age of 7, I was kidnapped and tortured for a year. I began writing a long letter to my soon-to-be ex-wife, and became besieged by submerged memories. I felt so much that I felt nothing. So, I put pen to paper and came alive.
Have a question about air travel or airfares? We answer as many as we can, including these about cheap destinations and what to do when your bag goes missing.
To Democrats, George W. Bush is the Voldemort of American politics, an evil force. But even to Republicans, he is He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, someone you dare not talk about as you try to win the votes of conservative Iowans.
Etiquette guides can be invaluable repositories of practical information and common sense. But what etiquette guides DON'T address are the hundreds of weird-but-true situations that make up modern life.
