No protein, no way...

I am reading a book by Ironman triathlete Brendan Brazier entitled Thrive Fitness: The Vegan-Based Training Program for Maximum Strength, He...

Amy Alkon: Do Unemployment Benefits Keep People Unemployed? I would definitely say "yes" to this question, having seen those who g...

"I wish I didn't work so hard."

Glenn found an interesting post from a woman who worked in palliative care who discussed patient's last dying regrets: For many years I ...

Neo-NeoCon: Parents and College Freshman: The Long Goodbye.

Hodges L. Golson, author of Influence for Impact: Increasing Your Effectiveness in the Organization, has a good post on the the intersectio...

Save on health care by getting rid of the dog or cat...

This is one of the tips in a book I am reading by Cynthia J. Koelker, MD entitled, 101 Ways to Save Money on Health Care: Tips to Help You S...

8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back

I received a beautiful book in the mail today by author Esther Gokhale entitled 8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back: Natural Posture Solutions for ...

Stuart Schneiderman: The Day of the Cougar.

Law Professor John Kang has a new article in the Harvard Journal of Law and Gender entitled The Burdens of Manliness. You can check it out ...

New Book on Pain

I just saw a post on Facebook from one of my favorite authors, Abigail Thernstrom that her daughter, Melanie Thernstrom, has a new book ou...

'"High schools are the downfall of American school reform," said Jack Jennings,...'

WSJ: Scores Stagnate at High Schools (via Newsalert ): New data show that fewer than 25% of 2010 graduates who took the ACT college-entranc...

This is kind of interesting: "Only 2% of Republicans had bedbugs, while 12% of Democrats did."

"I realized my husband was of no added value."

Wow, what a statement, but apparently, this is how some women feel about their husbands according to an article in the Dallas Morning News ...

Shrinkwrapped: "Those of us who play by the rules are increasingly made to feel like chumps. This is not a healthy development for ou...

The new Fat Cats

ABC News: "Civil Servants Find Themselves Cast in Unlikely Role -- Fat Cats" (via Newsalert ): Move over Wall Street traders -- ...

Home Ownership: American Dream or American Headache?

I read Megan McArdle's post about how much house one should buy and some commenters were congratulating her on buying "the Ameri...

"The whole experience of flying is now totally abusive, authoritarian and dysfunctional. It is guaranteed to bring out the worst in everyone ..."

This above quote is from a commenter at the New York Post in response to the JetBlue flight attendant who "snapped" on a flight: ...

" Unattractive men, meanwhile, earned 15 percent less than their attractive coworkers ....Unattractive women earned 11 percent less."

This is kind of interesting: “Attractive men and women are often seen as more talented, kind, and intelligent and that can lead to promoti...

The Palm Beach Economy (from my perspective)

I am still in Palm Beach at a law conference and spent part of the day walking around the shopping areas where things look pretty dead. Ther...

Stuart Schneiderman: Some thoughts on courage.

"I am not a Conservative..."

Yes, but I am, at least I am a right-leaning libertarian which is adequately different from liberal dogma that it counts as Conservative. Ac...

What is courage?

I am at a law conference in Florida and attended a panel on "Masculinity and Manliness in the Law." Initially, I was a little wary...

GM's Place: Rounding up the PsychBloggers.

Telegraph (via Hot Air ): Women 'view modesty as sign of weakness': Research suggested that females have found the rise of the “mor...