Quote of the Day: Learning To Accept Suffering

“When painful feelings arise in our mind, there is no need to panic; we can patiently accept them, experience them, and investigate their nature and where they come from. When we do this, we shall discover that painful feelings do not come to us from outside but arise within our own mind. Circumstances or [...]

Come As You Are

Come as you are,
as you were,
As I want you to be
“Come As You Are“-Nirvana
I (J) trip off some of the things black men say. For so many men I know, the very concept of being in a relationship with a woman is as foreign as the Taliban. She’s either too needy, too tall, too [...]

The Feminine Mistake

From a book review of The Feminine Mistake: Are We Giving Up Too Much? by Leslie Bennetts
Whether having their mothers focused solely on them benefits children is a topic of interminable and sometimes nasty debate, but Leslie Bennetts makes it absolutely clear that abandoning the workplace is not good for women. “It’s hard to understand [...]

McCain the Militarist

“McCain poses as a hard-headed realist, who wants “a strategy that deals with how things really are in Iraq,” but he underestimates the precariousness of the U.S. position – a miscalculation underscored by the attack on the Iraqi parliament in the supposedly secure precincts of U.S. power, the Green Zone. When the history of this [...]