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  1. MBSR blogger: "mental health looks at all aspects of the self – physical, mental, emotional, and even spiritual." Should the last be first?
  2. A friend of mine owns Write Away Academy, helping kids find their voice through writing. Mission: Small Business℠: bit.ly/LrhwpA
  3. Robby Krieger on Reissued 'L.A. Woman' Album shar.es/qp77B via @sharethis
  4. Donna Summer on NPR in 2003: "You know, the Doors, the Stones, the Beatles I listen to a lot of stuff." npr.org/2012/05/18/152…
  5. Einstein: Heisenberg-Bohr tranquilizing philosophy- religion?..provides a gentle pillow for the true believer..cannot very easily be aroused
  6. Janet Maslin (NYT) once called The Doors the "60's most self-important rock band." The group was the most important, but not to rock alone.
  7. Dennett rejects actualism because "the alternative would be to give up and go play golf or something." I have some new golf balls for him.
  8. Why does Dan Dennett call actualism a "dread hypothesis" despite its elegance, simplicity, and logic? He doesn't like it. No other reason.
  9. Can you picture what will be / So limitless and free / Desperately in need of some stranger's hand / In a desperate land. JM, The End
  10. Something's gotta give: Einstein said God Does Not Play Dice, but Hawking claims there is evidence God does. Whom do you bet on? More later.
  11. Probability is not a proven property of nature. Anyone who says so isn't thinking ... clearly. Does this group include you?
  12. "Are They Real? Are They Believable? Are They Kidding?" Headline about The Monkees when their pre-Fab Four fakeness came out. Show on TV now
  13. A Zen koan for you: to what extent is Richard Dawkins responsible for the "cruel joke" being played on him and fellow natural selectionists?
  14. "We seem to all agree that the theory is crazy. The question is, is it crazy enough to have a chance of being right?" Niels Bohr
  15. "Some of the worst books I've ever read were considered world-class literature. I wouldn't give ..." John Locke, How I Sold 1Million eBooks
  16. "Now listen to this, I'll tell you about heartache. I'll tell you about heartache and the loss of God. I'll tell you about..." JM, The WASP
  17. @thingstobehappy Just bought your book The Order of Things. Wow!
  18. Depth, not breadth, is what distinguishes The Doors. How deep was Morrison? For starters, The End is deeper than Hamlet or King Lear.
  19. The world is not to be put in order; the world is in order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order. Henry Miller
  20. Piper Perabo on the praying of new NY Jets Tim Tebow: "it's sort of like The Thinker, but a football version."