Mark's Views, Perhaps — from behind my eyeballs
So we now have Fortune magazine’s list of the world’s 50 greatest leaders. Let me give you the short story in the next paragraph.
Pope Francis at #1. Bill Clinton at #5. President Obama didn’t make the cut.
Fortune says the amazing-to-me exclusion wasn’t. Read it all
Google will show you plenty of theories and pointers for writing the perfect Craigslist ad. And Amazon has a few books on the subject as well (for instance, Make Money Posting Ads on Craigslist).
But I’m going to show you a real live unique Craigslist ad-in-the-making. I hope to list it there within 24 hours (just in time to sell the car this weekend, you know).
The rest of this post is The Ad itself. Read it. Study it. Learn from it. And Read it all
Not drunk, as with wine. Drunk, as in imbibed. To be drunk like a tea, not to be drunk like a sailor.
In other words, “I smell like tea.” Therefore, “I smell like I should be drunk.” That was my observation the first time I used one of these pillow things: Read it all
In my late teens and early twenties, I received a lot of teaching and encouragement from “Basic Youth,” so I’m very sorry about this:
On March 7th, Bill Gothard, the founder and president of the Institute in Basic Life Principles resigned from his position in the organization after allegations from over thirty women were made public that Gothard sexually harassed, and in one case out right sexually abused, these women while they were teens or young women.
I wonder what his side of the story is. Read it all
This is ridiculous. Another way for the wrong people to breach our privacy and security. 😯
Read it. Call me paranoid. If you want. 
(Does the Google Glass earpiece have a sniffer?)
Just beware of the next person offering to whisper a secret in your ear. Especially if he puts his nose up to your ear… Read it all
Are you a child born out of wedlock?
Or a child clearly not planned for by your parents?
Your presence on this planet may well be the result of your parents petitioning God for a gift. Then all I have to say to you here is this: Get on with fulfilling the vision of your parents and the purposes of God!
On the other hand, my dear reader, your presence here may not have been requested by your parents. For all that I know, you may be a so-called “illegitimate child…” Take heart! Not only are you just as legitimate a child as anyone else, you are on this planet by special divine appointment. God chose to put you here! Get on with fulfilling His vision and purposes!
Be faithful to your mission here on planet Earth! Read it all