Most of you are aware of Joel Osteen. Love him or hate him, the wide-grinning Texas pastor of Lakewood Church – currently located in Houston’s old Compaq Center – is certainly one of the most visible figures of American Christianity. Lakewood has certainly earned that visibility, spending upwards of $30 million a year on their [...]
Walk into the Pete Hanna Center any afternoon and you will find twenty people biking, jogging, and elliptical-ing in their own worlds. Each person is isolated by either their iPod (jamming to the latest boring rap tunes), the preinstalled cable television (getting motivated by the Food Network), homework (Reading Rousseau at 300 RPM? YES.), or [...]
Despite having spent entire summers managing the interactions of American tourists with working dogs, I never realized how little most people understand sociocaninical etiquette until I adopted a dog a few weeks ago. Eliza, my beautiful mutt, is somewhat skittish; when a new person approaches, she cowers behind me, tail between her legs. Occasionally she [...]
You know that guy? That guy who thinks he knows everything? The one who uses academic jargon that few understand just so he can make himself feel more intelligent than everyone else? The student who consistently interrupts the professor in order to stir a debate about some tangent point slightly irrelevant to the class? That [...]
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