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The Sad Unraveling of Jon and Kate
This is a cautionary tale about love and television. A happy young couple with twins decide to try again for one more baby. They use fertility drugs to help them conceive and end up with sextuplets. Even though they both have good jobs, there’s no way that they can meet the massive expenses of raising [...]
Continue reading...Ruthless Compassion in Relationship, Part I
4. September 2009
There seems to be an epidemic of bad advice that young women and men are giving their friends these days, and all it seems to be doing is alienating the two sexes even further. One has to wonder where these young people are learning their very wrong-headed ideas from, when in every other way, this [...]
Continue reading...Ruthless Compassion in Relationship, Part II
4. September 2009
Most men and women want to understand each-other and get along better, but there’s so much misinformation being spread around that few of us know where to turn for the answers. In the past, there were social rules for men and women. They didn’t make much sense, but people had a clear, if misguided idea [...]
Continue reading...Why the Men in Hollywood Have Lost their Balls
16. August 2009
I love movies. Always have. And that’s why it so distresses me to see most of the leading men in Hollywood today succumbing to a terrible affliction. The longer they remain part of the star system, the less they seem to be men. A gradual process of psychological and emotional castration is neutering their masculine [...]
Continue reading...Why the Bachelorette Won’t find True Love
16. August 2009
It’s amazing how easily people disregard reality in the pursuit of love. It’s paradoxical, but the so-called “reality” shows on television today demonstrate this trend to the greatest degree. Take the Bachelorette. She is ostensibly on the show to find the man she’ll eventually marry and have children with. This, to me, is like going to [...]
Continue reading...The Mystery and Tragedy of Michael Jackson
16. August 2009
It’s a sad story. A young man has incredible talent and promise, and then achieves unimaginable success in his early twenties. We think that his life will be glorious, but instead it’s a series of more and more strange behaviours and events, culminating in his untimely death. Michael Jackson is called the “King of Pop,” [...]
Continue reading...Ruthless Compassion in Action
16. August 2009
Why Ruthless Compassion? It’s just common sense. I see this concept as the antidote to the two-sided affliction of today’s society: excessive selfishness and excessive niceness. People who suffer from the former condition tend to be greedy, competitive, cold-hearted and contemptuous, often seeing others merely as either vehicles or obstacles toward the gratification of their [...]
Continue reading...Why Being Nice Will Make You Fat
16. August 2009
You probably know someone in your life who is really, really nice. (Maybe it’s you?) This person is so nice that no-one has ever seen them angry or even a little bit irritated. They’re always eager to please, and if a misunderstanding should arise between themselves and someone else, they try ever so hard to [...]
Continue reading...Why Oprah Can’t Keep the Weight Off
16. August 2009
Oprah Winfrey is such an admirable woman. She’s done so much for so many, and is an incredible role model to millions of people. She’s beautiful, successful, intelligent, caring, and an inspiration to us all, which is why her ongoing struggle with weight loss is so saddening. She has access to the very best trainers, nutritionists, [...]
Continue reading...Conquering the Urge
16. August 2009
Some of the biggest challenges for people who are trying to lose weight are the powerful urges they get to overeat. Often, these urges come on after dinner, when the person is relaxing, reading a book or watching TV. The desire to eat something seems overwhelming, and the person feels powerless to resist it. There’s no [...]
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11. September 2009
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