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America’s Tortured Conscience
Originally posted on The Dish: by Will Wilkinson The Washington Post reports: A majority of Americans believe that the harsh interrogation techniques used on terrorism suspects after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks were justified, even as about half the public… Continue reading
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Emails Of The Day
Originally posted on The Dish: A reader writes: From early 2006 to late 2009, I was a part of the post-9/11 corporate-security state serving as an intelligence analyst. This is not a fact in which I take much pride. When… Continue reading
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Government Fails When It Fails to Be Government
Originally posted on dr. p.l. (paul) thomas: Let’s start with a little game. Fill in the blanks: Government interventions over the past four decades have yielded a cascade of perverse incentives, bureaucratic diktats, and economic pressures that together are forcing… Continue reading
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A Torch for the Path to Omniscience | Lotsawa House
This is the word-by-word commentary on the text of the Longchen Nyingtik preliminary practices entitled, ‘A Torch for the Excellent Path of Omniscience’. Source: www.lotsawahouse.org Letting-go of frustration, practicing compassion, open to the Encompassing – #liberation Continue reading
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Quantum Teleportation Reaches Farthest Distance Yet
Physicists have teleported a light particle 15 miles (25 kilometers), making it the farthest quantum teleportation yet. Advances in quantum teleportation could lead to better Internet and communication security, and get scientists closer to developing quantum computers. About five years… Continue reading
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Drag queens: Life as Vocation in spite of gentrification
Another wonderful find by my Buddy-Friend-Guy, Christopher… For his series, Beautiful by Night, Hosking documents the lives of three senior drag queens Donna Personna, Collette LeGrande and Olivia Hart, performers at aunt Charlie’s Lounge, the very last gay bar in… Continue reading
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Hedwig and the Angry Inch – Wig In A Box – YouTube
On nights like this When the world’s a bit amiss And the lights go down Across the trailer park I get down, I feel had I feel on the verge of going mad And t… Source: www.youtube.com One of my… Continue reading
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The Path of the Sacred Clown: Where Trickster and Shaman Converge
Like Thomas Merton wrote, “In a world of tension and breakdown, it is necessary for there to be those who seek to integrate their inner lives not by avoiding anguish and running away from problems, but by facing them in… Continue reading
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You don’t need empathy to support a depressed person
Very true. I can admit that this has happened to me and that I have done it to others. Continue reading
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Candice Bernd: Don’t Frack With Denton!
A small city in Texas has taken a bold step forward by banning fracking within municipal limits. Source: www.truth-out.org My friend and fellow Dentonite, Candace, talks with Thom Hartman about the citizen supported local ban on fracking in Denton. Continue reading
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Teasing the Force
First international teaser trailer for Star Wars, Episode 7: the Force Awakens… Continue reading
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School of the Americas Morphs Into US Training Industrial Complex
Activists still demand closure of the School of Americas 25 years after a Jesuit priest massacre. Source: www.truth-out.org interlocking networks of violent control Continue reading
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A British Tory Is An American Democrat
Here’s an indication of just how far to the right the American political discourse is, compared with Britain – the developed country most in tune with American neo-liberalism: That’s why David Came… Source: dish.andrewsullivan.com And folks wonder why the right… Continue reading
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I’m Gen Y, and I’m Not a Special Snowflake. I’m Broke. | Mother Jones
If I want something beyond debt and low wages, am I simply being entitled and delusional? Source: m.motherjones.com Continue reading
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Mull of Kintyre
One of my favorite songs from when I was in High School. I actually sang it to my poetry class once. Sometimes I was foolishly brave for a fairly insecure kid. 😉 Continue reading
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