Naseem Tarawnah, a Jordanian blogger asks whether the voting age should be lowered to 16 in Jordan:
Perhaps one of the biggest aids in encouraging Jordanian youth to get involved in politics is the lowering of the voting age. And I’m not talking about various debate skirmishes in the past few years […]

Admitting to weakness is hard for me to do (it is hard to even admit that admitting to weakness is hard), but this is too glaring for me to ignore. I have serious issues with shopping and just going out and finding goods and services in general. The whole thing is intimidating. […]

I’ve wondered this for some time now. Many Christians (Catholics and Lutherans at least) attend Mass on Ash Wednesday and get a cross of ash on our foreheads. Generally you are expected to wear the ash on your forehead all day. The reason for the ashes is explained by Rev. Ken Collins:
So […]

Evil is a term that gets thrown around too much lately. As a rhetorical tool it can be effective in making a stark contrast between the “good guys” and the “bad guys” as the President attempts to do, but is it accurate? And do we harm our understanding of “evil” by defining it […]

From the Post:
“The Shiites are rising,” he said, arching his eyebrows in an expression suggesting both revelation and fear.
The growing Sunni-Shiite divide is roiling an Arab world as unsettled as at any time in a generation. Fought in speeches, newspaper columns, rumors swirling through cafes and the Internet, and occasional bursts of strife, the conflict […]

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/108/open_lightbulbs.html
Sitting humbly on shelves in stores everywhere is a product, priced at less than $3, that will change the world. Soon. It is a fairly ordinary item that nonetheless cuts to the heart of a half-dozen of the most profound, most urgent problems we face. Energy consumption. Rising gasoline costs and electric bills. Greenhouse-gas emissions. […]

Often I will replay conversations I’ve had and script out what I should have said differently. Other times I will imagine conversations that I haven’t had yet. Like if that hot girl on the metro came over to talk to me, how would that conversation go? Of course if she actually did […]