Sam Barry | Sam Barry
Mar.15.2010
Have you ever noticed the extraordinary amount of attention we pay to one another’s business? I don’t really know where all this interest comes from—maybe back when we were hunter-gatherers it was a matter of survival that we kept an eye on what the other members of the tribe were up to. Maybe...
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Mar.12.2010
I’m a loser. Why? Because I’m not a winner. Furthermore, I am on the side of the losers.
Some years ago I was a Presbyterian minister. Although it was somewhat disguised behind a veil of piety, I discovered that ministers do play the winner/loser game. Winning is determined by the size of the...
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Mar.08.2010
Many years ago I lived in West Los Angeles near Culver City. When you live in certain parts of Los Angeles you cross paths with the stars—literally. You see them driving by when you are at a stop light, or you are told they just ate in the restaurant where you are about to have lunch. Once I...
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Mar.04.2010
Weren’t those Olympics exciting? The world was all in a tizzy because of the Norwegian curling team’s trousers, which my colleague Bjorn Bakstad said made them look like “a bunch of clowns.” He’s Norwegian, so he can say that. And anyhow, the pants were clearly a hit: they have more than 600,000...
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Mar.01.2010
“To tweet, or not to tweet—that is the question.”—William Shakespeare
“Around eighty-seven tweets ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”—Abraham Lincoln
“A new commandment I give unto you:...
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Feb.26.2010
Yesterday I realized about halfway through the morning that I had forgotten to wear a belt. This was the second day in a row that I had neglected to put on my belt, a standard item of my very simple wardrobe. Also, my fly was down.
I often discover that I am not fully put together partway through...
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Feb.22.2010
Anaheim — The complimentary breakfast at the motel was the usual fair—cheap donuts, “o” shaped cereal, weak coffee. It didn’t matter—we were two blocks from the happiest place on earth: the Anaheim Convention Center. Also, we were really close to Disneyland, which was where my daughter Laura and I...
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Feb.18.2010
Hi. My name is Sam and I am a candy addict.
God it feels good to say that. I think I’ll have a piece of gum to celeb—No!
Let me start over. My name is Sam and I am a candy addict. I roam the HarperOne offices (I work there, so I do have a reason to be roaming around), searching, always searching...
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Feb.15.2010
Now that it has been established by leaders and commentators across the political spectrum that the Obama administration is a failure, Americans everywhere must reassess their positions and plans for the three years that remain.
This is good news for the Democrats: they no longer need to figure out...
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Feb.11.2010
Is heterosexuality a sin? What should society do about all the heterosexuals in our midst? A decade into the twenty-first century these questions confront the nation.
Many heterosexuals feel they should be allowed to openly live their lives, marry, raise children, go to Disneyland—in other words,...
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