The path to Wisdom begins with Humility.

A Message from jsbach

Tue Nov 10, 2009 5:40 PM EST

Ellie, thank you for your lovely email. Your words are truly felt and I hold them as they are meant to be held. I mean, how can I properly thank people like you, Juno, Bruce and Gary, for being the first people to help me begin the ride of my life.

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meta, good-bye, jsbach

Be aware: The Story of Stuff

Wed Sep 23, 2009 12:52 PM EDT

The Story of Stuff Is a video for the consumption of young people, in schools, community centers providing children's activities, and Church groups.

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education, environment, children, justice, capitalism, schools, propaganda, social, acorn, communist

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The Sex You Want

Fri Jun 12, 2009 7:25 PM EDT

Gender selection ~ the "old fashion way" Once upon a time, it was believed that a woman was solely responsible for the gender of a couple's offspring. So much so, that wives who failed to produce sons would be dispatched for another that might.

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sex, women, men, pregnancy, parents, girl, gender, natural, boy, family-planning

Happy Vineversary to Me.

Fri May 8, 2009 7:51 PM EDT

This month marks two years on the Vine for me. Woohoo! Right?

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Give Me Liberty

Tue Apr 28, 2009 3:05 PM EDT

By lorie-j (Clipped by Juno Hera)

For several years, I avoided the news and the political "circus" shown through international media because I just didn't know who or what to believe.

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politics, conservative

For the Children

Sat Feb 7, 2009 5:36 PM EST

Rachel lay still. The room was hot; the singular sheet that lay across her, stuck in sweaty patches to her skin. The sun had set long hours ago, though it had failed to take with it the heat that now weighed heavily against her.

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children, family, love, marriage, fiction, hate, adultery, forgiveness

Memories of Heaven

Wed Feb 4, 2009 1:03 PM EST

The time was nigh~ he was coming home! Since she had learned of his eminent arrival some months past she'd lived in a state of anticipation. In preparation, Angelique had spent much of that time formulating her thoughts, organizing her questions.

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love, god, fiction, spirit, memories, heaven

A Brother's Smile

Tue Nov 18, 2008 11:59 AM EST

(2002 Writers Digest 'Inspirational Short Story' Honorable Mention Winner)

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god, fiction, heaven, sids

Mother's Day

Sat Aug 23, 2008 2:39 PM EDT

It was one of those kinds of days when waking is the last thing in the world you want to do. A day that would be best greeted with fantastic leisure, with a stretch and roll and a chance to luxuriate in awareness without actually leaving the bliss of sleep.

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South Korea to end ban on revealing sex of babies

Seeded on Thu Jul 31, 2008 8:02 AM EDT (The Washington Post)

SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea's Constitutional Court overturned a ban on doctors telling parents the gender of unborn babies, saying Thursday the country has grown out of a preference for sons and that the restriction violates parents' right to know.

world-news, parenting, south-korea, gender, seoul

Hidden Van Gogh Revealed

Seeded on Thu Jul 31, 2008 7:34 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)

AMSTERDAM (Reuters Life!) - Scientists have made a colored view of an early rejected painting underneath Vincent van Gogh's 'Patch of Grass' painting, using advanced X-ray techniques, a Dutch university said on Wednesday.

arts, art, van-gogh, xray

Eight Random Things

Thu Jul 17, 2008 9:47 PM EDT

Tom Bombadil tagged me ages ago . . . Is there a time limit on this thing? First the rules:

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meta, 8-things

Satire: The "Regular Folk" faux pas

Sat Feb 9, 2008 3:38 AM EST

As my Vineness and short column may indicate, I haven't written anything for Newsvine. I like to hang-out though, seed articles that haven't already been snatched up, and enjoy commenting on current events, political issues etc.

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Spy Kids

Seeded on Tue Oct 9, 2007 10:59 AM EDT ()

1984 anyone?

us-news

A Study: The downside of diversity

Seeded on Fri Aug 10, 2007 11:04 AM EDT (The Boston Globe)

A Harvard political scientist finds that diversity hurts civic life. What happens when a liberal scholar unearths an inconvenient truth?

us-news, liberal, diversity, putnam, harvard-study, american-melting-pot

Wrong Kind of White

Seeded on Mon Aug 6, 2007 8:48 PM EDT (This is London)

"A teenage science student has been banned from applying for a training programme with the Environment Agency because she is white and English. The recruitment agency handling the scheme told Abigail Howarth, 18, that there was no point in her submitting an application because o …

politics, discrimination, english

the ad hominem fallacy fallacy

Seeded on Tue Jul 17, 2007 5:29 PM EDT ()

"Actual instances of argumentum ad hominem are relatively rare.

politics, argument, ad-hominem

Key to a good marriage? Share housework

Seeded on Mon Jul 2, 2007 9:57 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)

By DAVID CRARY, AP National Writer Sun Jul 1, 6:54 AM ET

us-news, children, marriage, u-s, ap-news, social-decline

Chicago Board of Ed Sued for Teacher Allegedly Showing 'Brokeback Mountain' in Class

Seeded on Thu Jun 28, 2007 7:48 PM EDT (FOXNews.com)

CHICAGO — A girl and her grandparents have sued the Chicago Board of Education, alleging that a substitute teacher showed the R-rated film "Brokeback Mountain" in class.

education, children, school, morals, brokeback-mountain, captive