Profound: March 2008 Archives

Candidate, Improve Your Appearance! - Dick Cavett - Opinion - New York Times Blog

Look past some of the political nonsense and you'll find some useful speechifying tips here.

TPMCafe | Talking Points Memo | Fallacy #1: The Founders Weren't Deists

First in a series about the faith of the Founding Fathers. Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Franklin may not have been orthodox, but they "believed in an omnipotent god who intervened in the lives of men and nations" and "that their actions in life would be judged and determine their fate in the afterlife." And many other members of the Constitutional Convention -- Patrick Henry, Sam Adams, John Hancock, John Witherspoon among them -- were orthodox Christians. (Via Rod Dreher.)

Clueless Guys Can't Read Women - Yahoo! News

To a guy, flirtation looks like friendliness and vice versa. This is news? (Via Ace.)

Dwelling in Possibilities - ChronicleReview.com

"For his student generation is a singular one, at least in my experience of 30 or so years teaching: Its members have a spectacular hunger for life and more life. They want to study, travel, make friends, make more friends, read everything (superfast), take in all the movies, listen to every hot band, keep up with everyone they've ever known. And there's something else, too, that distinguishes them: They live to multiply possibilities. They're enemies of closure. For as much as they want to do and actually manage to do, they always strive to keep their options open, never to shut possibilities down before they have to." (Via World on the Web.)