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There was a taxi ride in Athens, Greece that I'll never forget. It felt like being in a video game. I was sure we were going to die. It never occurred to me to say something. I just closed my eyes and dissociated.
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The more you help others the calmer your mind will be. You will be able to overcome misdeeds committed in relation to others. Familiarizing your mind with kindness and compassion yields peace of mind, which makes you happier and even improves your physical health.
"No God is necessary for prayer to change you. The Lord’s prayer teaches gratitude, dependence, a willingness to forgive others and to acknowledge one’s own flaws. It asks for moral courage and discipline...
"Consider what kind of individual you get if someone prays for those things, meditates on them, seeks avenues in their life to practice them. What kind of civilization do you get when people, corporately, recite that prayer generation after generation for two thousand years?...
"A civilization that even atheists would want to live in...
Perhaps it’s a placebo. But the placebo effect works even if you know it’s a placebo. I don’t know if the Bible got God right. But I believe it got humans right."
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it’s funny reading the Wikipedia pages of actors from the 90’s and 2000’s
it’s like “Steve Buscemi was a firefighter then traveled with the circus, waited tables, did a bunch of odd jobs and got discovered on the side of the road”
meanwhile every actor today is just like “child of [famous actor]”
Before Hollywood, I was living in a van in Hawaii and waiting tables at Bubba Gump Shrimp Company. One day, the incredible Rae Dawn Chong walked into the restaurant, and naturally, I went up to her table and said, “Hey, you’re a movie star! What are you doing here?”
She asked if I could act, and I said, “Fuck yeah, put me in your movie!”
She asked for my phone number. The only problem was I didn’t have one. So I gave her my buddy Mike’s number instead. A couple days later, Mike casually mentions, “Oh, by the way, someone called you.” ARE YOU KIDDING ME, MIKE?!
I called her back, and sure enough, she was serious. I drove over to pick up the script, went back to Mike’s house, and read all 120 pages three times in a row. First script I’d ever read. My character's name was Devon, and I remember thinking, “Sweet! I could totally play a Devon!”
I showed up to the audition with every line and inflection mapped out in pencil. Rae told me I could act and offered me the part. I asked if we were shooting in Hawaii. Nope. Los Angeles.
I had about $60 to my name, a bag of clothes, and some rollerblades.
Then Rae told me they'd fly me out. And I remember thinking right then and there, my life just changed forever. I'm going to be an actor.
That little movie was Cursed Part 3, a low-budget horror comedy that opened the door to Hollywood for me.
I'll forever be grateful to Rae for taking a chance on a kid working at a shrimp restaurant. Everybody starts somewhere, and this is where it all began for me.
Hard and beautiful.
The mom of a 6-year-old, who’s ‘not yet walking, talking, or even eating,’ has no patience for people ‘who want to complain about their problems.’ Our advice columnist Abigail Shrier weighs in. thefp.com/p/tough-love-abiga…
Did you know that Nothing Bundt Cakes calls their adorable little cakes "bundtlets?"
And that they have a seasonal pumpkin spice flavor?
That goes so well with an Americano from Caribou, which is right next door?
How is anyone supposed to resist?
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What Socialism Is.
Socialism is not a real model to be applied in the world – it is a contradictory rhetoric used to gain power over people, by manipulating those who are easiest to manipulate.
It is anti-life, because it contradicts reality. Its contradictions stay harmless only as long as it stays on paper. Try to implement it, and they come due.
It postulates equality – and produces the most unequal societies of all: the nomenklatura in its special shops, everyone else in the queue.
It says it frees the workers – and in 1980, ten million Polish workers had to rise up against the workers' state.
It postulates abundance – and gets rid of the people who produce it. Venezuela, sitting on the largest oil reserves in the world, watched its people lose an average of eleven kilos in a single year.
It says the state will wither away – and builds the biggest state in history.
It postulates peace – and needs an enemy for every failure.
"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs." Needs, of course, especially of the immoral, are unlimited. Ability is punished.
Someone has to resolve these contradictions. In socialism, that someone is the police, by force. When the theory says one thing and reality another, it is never the theory that gets arrested.
That is why it is anti-life. Life works by getting reality right: every living thing survives because it reads the world correctly. Socialism switches off the instruments – prices that say what is scarce, profits and losses that say what works, free speech that says what is wrong. A society that can no longer see where it is going ends up where socialist societies always end up: first the queue, then the famine and the camp.
And yet it keeps coming back. Why? Because socialism is not an economic theory that failed. It is a technique of power that works. The economics always fails. The rhetoric never does – on those easiest to manipulate, and for those who rise by manipulating them.
Socialism has never delivered what it says. It has always delivered what it is for: power.
"Rebel against... the people on your side telling you that you are a victim, and encouraging you to act with hostility toward others who hold a worldview different from your own."
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"You Can See Everything is a film about the tension between two modes of deception. Holmes uses deceit to tell big lies, and Fielder uses conceit to tell strange truths. The film ends with a strangely moving shot of them playing together in the ocean. Maybe this is just another joke, with the documentarian drowning the last morsels of his reliability as a narrator. Or maybe, in the end, there’s something honest happening in the water, as two masters of artifice see in each other that rarest thing: an unerring commitment to the bit."
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Opinion | In retirement we, too, wait for Godot startribune.com/mn-guthrie-t…
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Nancy Pelosi, who is regularly hammered for her perceived insider trading, has made 213 total trades since 2014. Trump exceeded that number in a single day, which just happened to precede his own tariffs announcement. My latest on the mind boggling self-enrichment:
"Our politics are dominated by extremes: shouting, rallies, and protests. Diplomacy, statesmanship, and finesse feel like relics of another era."
This is true even in an all-blue city like Mpls: polarization happens btwn the moderate vs. extreme left.
betterminneapolis.com/p/defi…
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We are all capable of becoming fundamentalists because we get addicted to other people's wrongness.~ Pema Chödrön, Interview w/ Bill Moyers, On Faith and Reason
Q: “ When I worked at the record shop in college, we renamed artists. I was responsible for ‘Jethro Dull’ and ‘John Cougar Menstrual Cramp.’”
Incredible. Try to read it without crying.
The heroic dad in Bend, Oregon, who was passing the elementary school, saw the shooter fire at others and enter the school, followed him and shot him, tells his story: opb.org/article/2026/10/23/b…
