VirusHead - Mutating bits of contagious discourse, because language is a virus.

We all die. I don’t know whether or not there is an afterlife, and neither does anyone else.
People have a range of beliefs. Some people believe in a heaven of fluffy clouds. Some people believe in a hell of unending torture. Some people believe in a gray space of limbo.
Some believe that one’s place [...]

I’m in a mood for Flaubert. I love the way he searched endlessly for le mot juste (the exact - uniquely correct - word, the most precisely accurate language). Sometimes he found the words that evoked and carried more truth than any fact could possibly do.

Love art. Of all lies, it is the least [...]

Sharing a hug is so deeply comforting, like hearing that everything is going to be all right.
Even watching hugs can make you feel better.
If you find January a bit depressing, if you’re having a rough time, if you’re just feeling like you could maybe use a hug - take a look at these.
Lion Hug

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAk8Z8Bcsz8

The Free [...]

No kidding. Hell is open for business.
Of course, “hell” is not the best translation of “L’Enfer.” “Inferno” would be better, but Hell rings about right (if you would excuse the pun) for much of the current American audience .
[Aside: Have you ever looking into the meaning of "Lucifer"? Light-bearer, god of light, Venus, the [...]

My friend Amanda innocently suggested that I join her in adding the visual bookshelf application to my Facebook page.
Little did she know that it’s just the sort of thing I would latch onto when I’m bummed out. I guess it’s better than some of the alternatives.
I’ve already listed well over a thousand books that I’ve [...]

So many of my friends emailed this to me that I had to think I’m either a kind of Mommy-archetype for my friends, or it had to be a very fun video. I think (I think) it’s the latter.
A woman condenses everything a mom would say in a typical 24-hour period into the framework of [...]

There are some Senators who drive me nuts, but nobody more so than Joe Lieberman. Some years ago, I used to have a modicum of respect for the guy as a moderate. Now he’s a snake. At least my more-red-than-red Senators here in Georgia, Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson, are predicable in their unthinking Bush [...]