Cesar Millan, the Dog Whisperer, Reforms Cartman’s Behavior in “Tsst,” South Park Episode 1007

Cartman, as we all know, treats his mom, well, like a dog, and it’s time for that trend to be reversed. Cesar Millan, the acclaimed Dog Whisperer, comes to South Park to discipline Cartman for Lianne Cartman and make him submit to her parental will. Cesar ignores Cartman and touches him on the neck, saying, [...]

Quran Read-A-Long: The Cow 267-273 Continues the Discussion of Charity

It’s interesting that in verse 268, when the Quran warns of Satan threatening us with poverty, it’s not that Satan will bring that poverty upon us himself. It’s that Satan is the one who makes us concerned that poverty might afflict us if we do not guard our money more carefully and if we don’t [...]

Hilarious Motivational Posters about Diplomacy, Elephants and Ducks

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The Art of Taking Ourselves Less Seriously For the Public Good

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Zen Talk: The Illusion of Purity

“Water which is too pure has no fish.” – Ts’ai Ken T’an How right you are Ts’ai Ken T’an. I recently started a very small aquarium in my home, and the first thing I learned from my very smart local aquarium store owner (Ocean Aquarium) is that the success of the aquarium and the happiness [...]

Cartman Leads a Somalian Pirate Crew in the South Park Season 13 Midway Finale (1307), “Fatbeard”

Cartman bursts into the cafeteria with exciting news: piracy is back! He tells the other boys that freedom from their lives of oppression awaits on the high seas around Somalia, where they’ll find lagoons and waterfalls and booty. Kyle insists that this is a very good idea, hoping that Cartman will go to Mogadishu, but [...]

Quran Read-A-Long: The Cow 261-266 Speaks of Charity Given From the Heart

The message in verse 262 about the way that charity should be given (I think that’s what it means to spend one’s possessions for the sake of God) is very similar to the Jewish ‘levels’ of tzedakah (charity) that the 12th century Jewish philosopher (and doctor to the Sultan Saladin) expounded. The greatest kind of [...]

Bizarre Motivational Posters about Ending the Universe, Motivational Posters and Politics

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Jimmy Takes Steroids While Cartman Becomes Retarded in “Up the Down Steroid,” South Park Episode 803

I love this episode. It’s one of those socially profound episodes that is simultaneously so hilarious that you just have to love it. Jimmy, intent on competing successfully (i.e. winning) in the Special Olympics, begins taking steroids. This ruins his relationship with his friend Timmy, who can’t believe he would cheat in such a vile [...]

Zen Talk: Focusing on the Amazing Journey

“When you get there, there isn’t any there there.” – Gertrude Stein This quote seems akin to the whole, the journey is better than the destination idea. We struggle so hard to get where we’re going that we neglect the amazing process that it took to get there. Once you’re there, it just is, and [...]