March 30, 2006

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Amazon.com: The Joys of Much Too Much : Go for the Big Life–The Great Career, The Perfect Guy, and Everything Else You’ve Ever Wanted: Books: Bonnie Fuller

A business powerhouse and mother of four who has led America’s most popular magazines — including Glamour, Cosmopolitan, Us Weekly, and Star — to record successes, Bonnie Fuller has, until now, been an immensely private person.

But in The Joys of Much Too Much, she shares an unthinkable secret: the key to happiness is not a balanced life but one that is maxed out with a career, romance, and family. Not only can you have it all, but you shouldn’t settle for anything less. In The Joys of Much Too Much she provides a blueprint for having everything you want personally and professionally — even if you’re afraid you don’t have what it takes.

For the first time, Fuller tells with astonishing candor what it was like to be an awkward, shy girl from a middle-class Jewish family who learned through hard-won successes and painful failures how to invent the over-the-top life she wanted.

Using personal anecdotes from her home and professional lives, Fuller describes the unusual coping methods that have made her happily unbalanced life work for her (hint: check your lettuce in the coatroom). In this straight-shooting, inspiring how-to, Fuller shows readers how to turn negatives into positives, squeeze the very most out of every chaotic minute, and embrace the unknown.

The Joys of Much Too Much will lead you to envision more for yourself, go for it — and then get it.

Lessons not transferable to anyone else.

Focus on the Family’s Response to “The Da Vinci Code”

The DaVinci Code challenges Jesus? identity and deeds, the content of the Bible, the origin of the church, the motives of early Christian leaders and the relevance of the church today ? but it does so without any historical, logical or theological credibility.

Therefore, Focus on the Family created this Web site to equip you to know the truth and share it with others.

One of Ann Arbor’s own comes home.

CNN.com - ‘Wonderful day’: Journalist Carroll freed in Iraq - Mar 30, 2006
American hostage Jill Carroll, the freelance journalist released on Thursday after nearly three months in captivity in Iraq, said she was “treated very well” while she was being held.

“They never said they would hit me. They never threatened me in any way,” she said in a TV interview after her release.

Except for the part where they held you prisoner in a locked room for three months and threatened to kill you. Good grief.

A Poverty of the Mind - New York Times

Not only was living this subculture immensely fulfilling, the boys said, it also brought them a great deal of respect from white youths. This also explains the otherwise puzzling finding by social psychologists that young black men and women tend to have the highest levels of self-esteem of all ethnic groups, and that their self-image is independent of how badly they were doing in school.

I call this the Dionysian trap for young black men. The important thing to note about the subculture that ensnares them is that it is not disconnected from the mainstream culture. To the contrary, it has powerful support from some of America’s largest corporations.

Forwarded to me by my contrarian friend Nick.