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POPSChesterton and Lewis for Beginners ·Orthodoxy. One of Chesterton's two greatest works, it argues for Christianity through his unfolding discovery that it answered all the questions the world presented him ·St. Thomas Aquinas. ·The Everlasting Man. ·What's Wrong with the World. ·Charles Dickens: A Critical Study. C. S. Lewis: ·Surprised by Joy. Lewis's autobiography ·God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics. A posthumous collection of 48 articles and essays ·The Problem of Pain or Miracles. ·The Screwtape Letters. Lewis's innovative collection of letters from a senior devil to his incompetent nephew ·The Abolition of Man. ·The Four Loves. Lewis's exposition of the four different kinds of love and the challenges we face in loving others. ·Selected Literary Essays.
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POPSTax bill appeals take rising toll on governments This is sure to cuase another wave of downward spirals. If gov'ts have to drop budgets to equate to the present value of homes, when they had orginaly planned, hired, and spent based on previous over extended vlaues - there will be a need to remake their budgets, drop staff, drop others from the budget including jobs. This will in spiral downward. Ouch!
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POPSAre American's Spoiled? Part of what's so perverse -- yet perversely endearing -- about American consumerism is the way we don't allow luxury to preclude necessity. Just because we don't technically need something doesn't mean we can't convince ourselves that we'll die without it. There's a reason the statistic about more American households having TVs than indoor plumbing has been floating around for decades It's because we define luxuries as being in the eye of the beholder. and we hold as self-evident that some of them fall into a category all their own: necessary luxuries. That may be an oxymoron, not to mention evidence that we may be a nation of morons.
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POPSCommunities Print Their Own Currency to Keep Cash Flowing Under the BerkShares system, a buyer goes to one of 12 banks and pays $95 for $100 worth of BerkShares, which can be spent in 370 local businesses. Since its start in 2006, the system, the largest of its kind in the country, has circulated $2.3 million worth of BerkShares. In Detroit, three business owners are printing $4,500 worth of Detroit Cheers, which they are handing out to customers to spend in one of 12 shops. By law, local money may not resemble federal bills or be promoted as legal tender of the United States, says Claudia Dickens of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. The IRS gets its share. When someone pays for goods or services with local money, the income to the business is taxable, says Tom Ochsenschlager of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
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POPSMysterious Ailment A dear friend of mine is manic-depressive. Sometimes she in incredibly full of energy. I just do my best to keep up with her. Bipolar disorder could have some advantages at times.
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POPS19th-Century Painter Van Gogh Died Of Self-Inflicted Gunshot 29 July 1890 * Born: 30 March 1853 * Birthplace: Groot Zundert, Holland * Died: 29 July 1890 (self-inflicted gunshot) * Best Known As: The marvelous painter who cut off his own earlobe A 19th-century painter, Van Gogh is almost as famous for his mental instability as for his vivid paintings. His career as an artist lasted only 10 years and coincided with frequent bouts of depression and anguish Among his favorite painters at this time were Jean François Millet, Rembrandt, Honoré Daumier; among his favorite authors, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, and Harriet Beecher Stowe - all of them interested in the poor and dispossessed. Complementing Van Gogh's dismal subject matter of this time were his colors, dark brownish and greenish tones. The masterpiece of the Dutch period is the Potato Eaters (1885), a night scene in which peasants sit at their meal around a table.
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POPSIs Hillary now suggesting Ass-ass-ination to win? I just heard this on MSNBC... What? This is so bad, it's way beyond the pale. It's an action that is so outside the limits of acceptable behavior, quite UNACCEPTABLE AND IMPROPER! Borrowing a line from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens, dated 1837: “I look upon you, MADAM, as a WOMAN who has placed HERSELF beyond the pale of society, by YOUR most audacious, disgraceful, and abominable public conduct”. Hillary if you don't quit the race now, you will forever be seen as a soiled and besmirched politician within your beloved career of politics!
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