Mom generally likes Oprah but because of the Secret she's rather pissed off at her for pushing such trash.

Slate just did a piece on it, evidentally you can't put any kind of negatives out there. So you can't think "I don't want to be sick" because the universe will read that as "I want to be sick" and you'll never be well again.

Slate just did a piece on it, evidentally you can't put any kind of negatives out there. So you can't think "I don't want to be sick" because the universe will read that as "I want to be sick" and you'll never be well again.

I don't want to be rich.

If I were going to be charitable, I'd say that there is a teeny chance of a well-meaning intention in it...but given that the author is a former tv producer who saw the benefit of corralling all the best selling self-help gurus into one big happy money printing machine...I dunno.

I joke with my clients that they don't need to read all the self-help books because I already have...and this one might be a sort of 'Reader's Digest' ploy.

It includes more than just think a thought and it will be done...to be fair...but because the content is so thin, I think it is really meant as a gateway drug to get people to go to the various author's websites and buy their programs.

In fact, the website for the book is basically a list of all the other places you can spend money once you've gotten a taste of the Secret.

It's a book that tells you that all you have to do is sit around wishing for shit and it will come to you.

oh, right. Boston Legal spoofed this with Denny Crane wishing for Raquel Welch. He got Phyllis Diller instead :)

Speaking of the crazy -

Mitt Romney, in his neverending quest to pander his way into office, figured a few good swipes at the French never go awry, especially at bastions of the right like Regent University. So he goes on about the thing now in France is seven-year marriage contracts, with each person free to walk at the end of it, and how it's a symbol of how Europe has degenerated.

Except for how it's not France, it's some Orson Scott Card novel that is apparently - get this - a retelling of the Book of Mormon set in space.

Not that WaPo picked up on that part when they reported the 7 year thing without comment.

If he keeps referencing science fiction books, I'm going to start thinking he really is a robot.

They were doing something on The Secret on NPR's Day to Day this afternoon. I missed it. I like my life rule best anyway.

Except for how it's not France, it's some Orson Scott Card novel that is apparently - get this - a retelling of the Book of Mormon set in space.

Heh. I guess it's a step up from Battlefield Earth, at least...

[eta: On second thought, that depends on which era OSC we're talking about. It could be a tie.]

Wait...isn't he a Mormon?!

Good grief.

The survey is really letting my get my crank on since I can read the responses and don't have to be helpful. That's a dumb idea. What are we, your mother? If an email isn't sufficient, nothing will be. Poor widdle pompous ass! Heehee!