Opinion Archives - Page 4 of 7 - define: Jared Barden

Apocalypse Around the Corner?

Feb

25

2007

I just saw a scene that made me think the Apocalypse might be coming sooner than we think. Was it footage from Iraq? No. Was it news of the pending nuclear crisis with Iran? No. Was it (insert crisis situation looming in the world today here)? No. It was Ellen DeGeneres leading a choir (on ...

Winter Wonderland Learnings

Feb

15

2007

So, we finally got our Winter Wonderland this week. Not on time for Christmas, but nice nonetheless. I hope to have some pictures up later this evening. I believe the snow began late afternoon on Tuesday and continued right on until Wednesday night. It’s the most snow I remember getting at one time in a ...

Texas and the HPV Vaccine

Feb

6

2007

My wife, Danielle, caused a little bit of a stir with her latest MySpace blog post having to do with Texas offering the HPV vaccine to 6th graders. I won’t comment too much about the post here. I already did so in the comments on Danielle’s page. I must digress and state that sometimes when ...

Colts and Bears

Jan

21

2007

Well, Super Bowl XLI is going to be Colts – Bears. Not the matchup I would have liked at the beginning of the season, but it should be interesting nonetheless. I didn’t catch much of the Bears – Saints game. We were too busy bowling and trading forehand shots on the Wii. However, I did ...

Potential Roadblock to Cancer Cure

Jan

18

2007

Apparently some scientists have discovered a potential cure for cancer. However, there may be a roadblock to future funding. According to this article a, “…molecule known as DCA was shown to shrink lung, breast and brain tumours in both animal and human tissue experiments.” This sounds like a treatment that could have huge potential. However, ...

Thanks MySpace

Jan

6

2007

I just got locked out of my MySpace account for 15 minutes, due to, “excessive login failures.” What’s funny is that my login failed once, and that was because the connection got reset, since I was logging in from a dial-up connection. So, I guess one login failure is excessive. I was just talking with ...

How Not to Sell a Product

Dec

9

2006

Today we did some Christmas shopping the Elmira, NY area. The following is my story of how not to sell a product. As we went to the different stores in the Arnot Mall and Target and Best Buy, we were mostly looking at tech items – TVs, video game systems, etc. It shocked me when ...

The Purpose of Problems

Nov

27

2006

Tonight I heard an interesting point of view while I was listening to the radio after Monday night basketball. It had to do with the problems and hardships we go through in life. The particular comment had to do with the life of Joseph, who was left in a pit by his brothers and later ...

The Name is Thanksgiving 1

Nov

25

2006

I hate, hate, hate it when people refer to Thanksgiving as Turkey Day. I’m not 100% sure why this phrase elicits such a negative reaction from me, but it just bothers me. It feels that so often in this country when their is a holiday that might have even remotely religious undertones, we try to ...

Give to Caesar What is Caesar’s

Nov

25

2006

I was reading my latest copy of Newsweek tonight, and I stumbled across some responses to the editor that caught my attention. The first response include the quote from Scripture, “Render to Caesar that things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s.” I have no problem with that statement at all. ...