Beyond the Rhetoric

By now, you’ve probably heard the story about Susan Boyle. She is the unlikely contestant from Britain’s Got Talent and she took everyone by surprise with her amazing voice. As she took the stage for her first audition, the audience and the judges laughed at her. As a 47-year-old virgin (take that, Steve Carell) from [...]

Since I work from home all day, I probably watch far too much television. Well, maybe “watch” isn’t the right word, because the TV acts more as a source of white noise than anything else. While I’m not really “watching” daytime television, I do pay a lot more attention to primetime programming. On Thursdays, for [...]