Be Excellent to Each Other: Things that make me ashamed to be an American...

Absolutely disgusting. I have a terrible taste in my mouth and I am honestly disturbed by this.

Favorite Quotes

"It's never too early to start beefing up your obituary." -The Most Interesting Man in the World
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace." -Sri Chinmoy Ghose/Jimi Hendrix
'I'd rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.' -Gerry Spencer
'One day may we all meet together in the light of understanding.' - Malcolm X
'Be great in act as you have in thought.' - William Shakespeare
'Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness…Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.' - Mark Twain
'Hands that help are holier than lips that pray.' - Gandhi

Great Reading

A Case of Exploding Mangoes
A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen
Chasing the Flame: One Man's Fight to Save the World
Faith at War: A Journey on the Front Lines of Islam
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
Generation Kill
Ghost Wars
Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
Letter to a Christian Nation
Licensed to Kill: Hired Guns in the War on Terror
Live from Death Row
Mountains Beyond Mountains
One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer
Our Turn to Eat: The Story of a Kenyan Whistle-Blower
Rogue States: The Rule of Force in World Affairs
Strength in What Remains
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
The Food Revolution
The Kite Runner
The Places In Between
The Siege of Mecca: The Forgotten Uprising in Islam's Holiest Shrine and the Birth of Al Qaeda
Three Worlds Gone Mad

Saturday, March 5, 2011