Cruel Logic

While y’all wait for me to complete a new post on evanescent’s carrot & stick article, here’s a link to whet your appetite. (HT: Gene Cook, TNM #864)

Sweet Story

This morning on NPR there was a short feature on a Korean immigrant describing why her marriage is more affectionate than is common among other traditional or immigrant Koreans.

Popeye the Blasphemer?

Do Jews wince when they hear Popeye’s blasphemous self-determination, “I yam what I yam, and that’s all what I yam”?

Consumerism & Spirituality

Recently I’ve heard two great audio pieces on the relationship between consumerism/materialism and spirituality/values, and I thought I’d share them.  One is about China, and one is more about us as Americans.