How My Grandpa Built a Big Life From Little Purposes
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On a recent episode of the AoM podcast, I talked with Jordan Grumet, a
hospice doctor and the author of The Purpose Code. In our interview, Jordan
drew a...
12 hours ago
5 comments:
if you never been an addicted to nicotine, do not throw stones.
my issue with the topic is this: the presidency shouldnt be dealing with this topic.
whether its jack lalanne as president, or david crosby.
chutzpah was a poor choice of a word for OBama - a Yiddish word for courage, when he has no courage, and is in no way like a courageous Jew.
Actually, the better translation, at least in today's usage, is probably "unmitigated gall," which fits President Blago perfectly.
Gino's got a good point about the difficulty of quitting smoking, but the point really remains; he can't do anything to help himself, but he can help everybody else?
Please.
OK, you're probably right, but I always thought of it as a compliment, and thought it rather ironic when Obama seems to be no friend of the Jew!
One needn't "throw stones" at a guy who was (is?) long-term addicted to cigs in order to say that he's not really qualified as a spokesman for healthy lifestyle choices. You can have all the compassion in the world and still say he's just not one with credibility on the topic and not one we care to have tell us how to live.
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