An image from an article titled “Americans Care More About Gay Marriage Than Global Warming”. Quite the sweeping general statement, but interesting nevertheless.

Could it be be because the gay marriage issue gets at what it means to be human or could it be that we’re that self-absorbed?  Full article from treehugger.com here
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I like this article mentioning Warren Buffett:
At a Hillary Clinton fund-raiser in New York last month, Warren Buffett, no stranger to wealth, told an audience filled with bankers and real-estate developers the system was, in effect, rigged. “This is what Congress in its wisdom did: the 400 of us [here] pay a lower part of [...]

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I took an assessment a few years back that diagnosed me with having ADD/ADHD, but who doesn’t these days?
I just stumbled on to this movie documenting the factors we all suspected (pharmaceutical industry, parents, teachers, media, etc) leading to the over-medicating of our children.

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I’m not sure how much value there is in all these personality/strengths tests out there… yet I can stop. Here’s my latest below.

I’ve always been borderline Extraverted / Introverted. It makes more sense to me since recently learning that you tend to be both if you’re an only-child or much older than [...]

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A Jesus-follower shares with me yesterday
How can people lift their hands singing about the love of God, and not f*cking spend the time to really welcome me into the church?  I want to be a part of the body of Christ, but no one will f*cking let me in!”
He’s attended several different churches, created and [...]

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The Makers of Fire is a FUTURE Oriented Think tank and Leadership Training Event that will becoming through Montreal in October this year.  It’s led by Alex McManus (brother of Erwin, Creator of Voxtropolis, and founder of the International Mentoring Network, amongst other things). 
It’s $79 at the door, but I’ve got two tickets for $25 [...]

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We had an awesome anniversary. I don’t know about other guys, but every year I think, how on earth am I going to top the last year?
This year my goal was to spend no more than ten bucks on the night (I was so tempted to do the fancy dinner thing, but that’d just [...]

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I don’t really ever use stumble upon, but I just added gave it a try yesterday and gave a ‘thumbs up’ to my own site.  Within hours it added over 200 unique hits to this site!
Stumble Upon reveals what an incredible amount of time people have on their hands.  People are willing to just sit [...]

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I just finished reading Tony Campolo’s, Everybody wants to change the world. More thoughts on it coming soon.

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Here’s a recent Sunday school promotional video made by Jon for ETCBC. It’s one of the better church promo’s I’ve seen over the years, especially for a humble little church like ours. Check it out.

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