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What an interesting pick for the month! It retails for $2.99 on amazon in the states.;) A fascinating companion reader would be Sheldon Kopp's If you meet the Buddha on the side of the road, kill him! Kopp argued that the truth is inside all of us and that the modern priest(i.e.-the guru) and...

Can you trust Jared Diamond? In criticism, his work is faulted among the lines of Malcolm Gladwell's. The use of nebulous and generalized findings that reek of "correlation is not causation" reminders from grad school. Sounds like a good book, too bad I'm in to about three right now! Argh...

Welcome Charles from the peanut gallery. ;)

I need to read that book, supposedly it is what lead Obama to appoint republicans to his cabinet. Doris Kearns Goodwin could right about paint drying and it would re-set the genre.

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Hmmm, so there are world leaders who are perfect and who are not creatures of their time. Amazing how he fell sooooooo short. The same kind of opprobrium is more deserving of the 1920s and '30s labour party.

Just finished Sh*t my dad says. A great read on the advice that a father gives a son. Arguably the funniest book I've read in a long time.

If it rains any more, I'm building an ark.

I've seen his books pop up a lot on amazon, he is getting a lot of positive coverage. I would recommend Thomas Sowell's The quest for cosmic justice. Sowell highlights how in many countries, ethnic minorities outperform the majority due to certain values and skills that are taught to the youth...

For the life of me, I fail to understand why we don't make certain crimes against children a capitol offense.

I've had this happen a number of times. There are some books that I can remember vividly, from scene to scene. There are others where I remember certain snippets and others, that I can't remember at all. The flaming girl with a dragon & a tattoo series(the specific names elude me now) are a...

The funny thing?, at one time, Oklahoma was chock full of socialist state legislators. Not an Oklahoman, but I lived in Ada for about six years and moved on to Nebraska. No need to bring up Barry Switzer, we Nebraskans are all too aware of that painful time in our football history.

Wallace speech goes viral

I think I'm neck and neck with Balzac on the coffee drinking. Nothing happening with writing though. :D

Just curious what yours would be. Business Insider-work habits of geniuses.

I can say that I've read all of Dianetics. Sci-fi meets the occult meets wishful thinking. Oh wait, is that a movement somewhere?:devillook

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Sparky's gun club. :D ;)

The predictor of violence is intent. Whether it's a gun or a knife is irrelevant. Most people who have gone through training understand the rules and ramifications of having a fire arm. Most of them know that if someone is in your house, you are more justified, than say, shooting someone in...