http://www.thirdeyemag.com Using Creativity to Build Better Communities Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:03:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://www.thirdeyemag.com/opinion/unrealistic-expectations/ http://www.thirdeyemag.com/opinion/unrealistic-expectations/#comments Mon, 21 Apr 2008 03:38:22 +0000 Ramla Alethea http://www.thirdeyemag.com/opinion/unrealistic-expectations/ The fact of the matter is, we’re all lying to ourselves. We want to believe it’s possible to be holy. To feel divine. We sacrifice ourselves, put ourselves on the line, with the naïve notion it pleases some disembodied voice in the sky. We look to socially agreed upon models of exemplary “spiritual” human beings and attempt to replicate ad nauseam. Jesus Christ, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Teresa. ]]> http://www.thirdeyemag.com/opinion/unrealistic-expectations/feed/ 3 http://www.thirdeyemag.com/opinion/america%e2%80%99s-auto-addiction/ http://www.thirdeyemag.com/opinion/america%e2%80%99s-auto-addiction/#comments Wed, 19 Mar 2008 20:45:16 +0000 M. Decker http://www.thirdeyemag.com/opinion/america%e2%80%99s-auto-addiction/ Cars, cars, everywhere. From the shores of Hawaii to the mountains of New Mexico to the hamlets of northern Michigan, cars and trucks of all shapes and sizes, running rampant down the streets, possessing highways, monopolizing avenues, pompously pushing their way down lanes, drives, places, and boulevards. Running over pedestrians, bicyclists, and each other. Belching carbon dioxide, spewing oil, gluttonously guzzling gasoline, shedding rubber, metal, glass, and plastic. Shrieking, rumbling and carelessly careening in various directions at multiple speeds. [...]]]> http://www.thirdeyemag.com/opinion/america%e2%80%99s-auto-addiction/feed/ 1 http://www.thirdeyemag.com/nonfiction/current-events/the-poison-of-the-democratic-party/ http://www.thirdeyemag.com/nonfiction/current-events/the-poison-of-the-democratic-party/#comments Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:54:05 +0000 David Siwik http://www.thirdeyemag.com/nonfiction/current-events/the-poison-of-the-democratic-party/ This current election is something else. The race between Obama and Hillary is a reminder of the absolute poison that the Clintons brought to the Democratic Party, and what a duplicitous and self-serving couple of thoroughly narcissistic people Bill and Hillary have always been. Bill Clinton, in campaigning for his wife, has degraded the institution of the Former Presidency down to the lowest common denominator. Case in point: His reference to Obama’s “fairytale” run for the White House and utilization of the race card – confirming what a classless individual ole’ Slick Willie really is. The Clintons are a marriage (and a mirage) of a desultory individual from Arkansas and a conniving lawyer from suburban Chicago. [...]]]> http://www.thirdeyemag.com/nonfiction/current-events/the-poison-of-the-democratic-party/feed/ 5 http://www.thirdeyemag.com/opinion/do-you-believe-in-magic/ http://www.thirdeyemag.com/opinion/do-you-believe-in-magic/#comments Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:40:16 +0000 Jason Glover http://www.thirdeyemag.com/wordpress/2007/11/02/do-you-believe-in-magic/ My memories are all artificial. Pre-packaged marketing tools designed to foster brand identity or sell toys. A twisted commercial entourage of ‘80s icons. Thundercats, TMNT, Transformers, Gumby, Ghostbusters, G.I. Joe, Smurfs, Care Bears, Popples. X-men comics. The Olsen twins. That impatient owl licking to the center of Tootsie Roll Pops. Me begging to stop at McDonald's and get a Happy Meal. Or even better, to go inside and play in the ball pit. These are the chronicles of my perfect upbringing. I am a walking, talking fulfillment of the American Dream. [...]]]> http://www.thirdeyemag.com/opinion/do-you-believe-in-magic/feed/ 4 http://www.thirdeyemag.com/opinion/please-have-your-fame-spayed-or-neutered/ http://www.thirdeyemag.com/opinion/please-have-your-fame-spayed-or-neutered/#comments Fri, 02 Nov 2007 04:53:57 +0000 Les Beldo http://www.thirdeyemag.com/wordpress/2007/10/14/please-have-your-fame-spayed-or-neutered/ I had a tragic epiphany while watching Bob Barker on The Price is Right the other day [...]]]> http://www.thirdeyemag.com/opinion/please-have-your-fame-spayed-or-neutered/feed/ 1 http://www.thirdeyemag.com/opinion/hollywood-freaks/ http://www.thirdeyemag.com/opinion/hollywood-freaks/#comments Thu, 01 Nov 2007 08:59:38 +0000 M. Decker http://www.thirdeyemag.com/wordpress/2007/11/01/hollywood-freaks/ There was a time when the lives of Hollywood actors and media grabbing darlings wasn’t so connected with our own. A time when we weren’t saturated with headlines dealing with the night lives of “out of control” pop music stars or the birth of a pompous actor’s baby. But it’s not that time today. Here right now, I’m on a computer with internet access. Let me check out a few news and information sites. I take a gander at yahoo.com and what’s this…Britney Spears’ former friends are boycotting her current album? Holy crap, this totally deserves preferential placement at the top of the first page! [...]]]> http://www.thirdeyemag.com/opinion/hollywood-freaks/feed/ 2 http://www.thirdeyemag.com/opinion/its-time-to-evolve/ http://www.thirdeyemag.com/opinion/its-time-to-evolve/#comments Tue, 04 Sep 2007 02:14:57 +0000 Jason Glover http://www.thirdeyemag.com/opinion/its-time-to-evolve/ Let’s be humbly honest. We don’t really know what folks are describing when they use words like God or Allah or Oneness. None of us can be absolutely sure if the beliefs entire afterlives are gambled on are the least bit valid. And even assuming the unlikely scenario that one of the world’s religions is right about everything it purports, what are the odds that you’re lucky enough to be counted among its adherents? Certainly not very high, considering the number of possible choices. Why then are most of us so sure about things we can’t possibly be sure about? [...]]]> http://www.thirdeyemag.com/opinion/its-time-to-evolve/feed/ 0 http://www.thirdeyemag.com/opinion/apathy-made-easy/ http://www.thirdeyemag.com/opinion/apathy-made-easy/#comments Wed, 04 Jul 2007 19:30:30 +0000 M. Decker http://www.thirdeyemag.com/opinion/apathy-made-easy/ Having trouble rationalizing your passive-aggressive tendencies toward the War in Iraq? Fear not my friend! I’ve compiled a handy-dandy list of reasons not to protest the war – even though you utterly hate it – that will bring piece of mind while still allowing you to rant and rave ‘til your big ol’ heart’s content!]]> http://www.thirdeyemag.com/opinion/apathy-made-easy/feed/ 0 http://www.thirdeyemag.com/opinion/ann-coulter-was-right/ http://www.thirdeyemag.com/opinion/ann-coulter-was-right/#comments Fri, 04 May 2007 02:25:34 +0000 Jason Glover http://www.thirdeyemag.com/opinion/ann-coulter-was-right/ I am a brainwashed, bleeding-heart liberal. Everything I say is naïve at best and corrosive at worst. I have made detrimental deductions about the state of affairs on this blue-green orb based on lies the liberal media and my college professors told me. How they hate America. How they’d love to let the terrorists win. [...]]]> http://www.thirdeyemag.com/opinion/ann-coulter-was-right/feed/ 0 http://www.thirdeyemag.com/opinion/frat-house-planet-earth/ http://www.thirdeyemag.com/opinion/frat-house-planet-earth/#comments Sun, 04 Mar 2007 02:29:58 +0000 Jason Glover http://www.thirdeyemag.com/opinion/frat-house-planet-earth/ Imagine regaining consciousness after some no-holds-barred, drink-yourself-into-a-coma, fall-asleep-in-your-own-fluids kind of party. It was fun while it lasted, but now your head aches as you surveil the dilapidated remains of last night’s hoopla. Sunday-afternoon doldrums dissolve any remembrance of dopamine-driven delight. Picture that hollow, morning-after aftertaste. The realization that maybe, just maybe, you took things too far. [...]]]> http://www.thirdeyemag.com/opinion/frat-house-planet-earth/feed/ 0