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Ben & Jerry’s Hubby Hubby: Gay Marriage and The Americone Dream
By
Ethan Nichtern
In honor of the passage of Vermont’s same-sex marriage law, Ben & Jerry’s has announced that for 30 days (only in Vermont), “Chubby Hubby” ice cream will be sold as “Hubby Hubby.” Stephen Colbert‘s Americone Dream could not be reached for comment, but rumors are that the caramel-and-waffley-chocolate-bits-flavor called the announcement a cheap publicity stunt…
Health Care, Blue Dogs, Town Hall, Obama – Haiku Contest!
By
Jerry Kolber
This week’s entry began as a long angry article about the scarcity-and-fear-based argument against universal health care and making sure that all humans in the United States are able to be healthy. It ended as a western-form Haiku that would even fit on Twitter (thanks Patrick Groneman in Bushwick for the cooling off and Jacob…
Tracking our trash
By
Kirsten Firminger
I think this is so cool. MIT is conducting a research project which involves inserting “smart” chips into objects that become trash, which are then tracked in order to learn where all our trash goes. As they state on their Trash Track website: “Imagine a future where immense amounts of trash didn’t pile up on…
September Quotes: Summer is Impermanent, So Is Thich Nhat Hanh’s Pneumonia
By
Ethan Nichtern
This September Quote is attributed to the great master Thich Nhat Hanh (who has been discharged from the hospital, awesome!)
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