'…a major destabilizing influence'
TV doctor and quack medicine hustler Mehmet Oz, the candidate running for an open Senate seat on the Republican line in Pennsylvania, has been hammering away on his opponent, Democratic Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, who suffered a serious stroke four and a half months ago. Oz has been saying Fetterman, who since the stroke …
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Russia’s politically motivated persecution of American basketball superstar Brittany Griner highlights multiple hypocrisies and myths that swirl around marijuana. Russian authorities arrested Griner at a Moscow airport in mid-February 2022. Authorities charged her with smuggling hash oil, a liquid processed from the marijuana (cannabis) plant. Griner has distinguished herself with two Olympic gold medals and …
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Across the way In a field by the road Sits redfox looking for a forest. Any woods will do. His home was just clear-cut So he sits in a low spot at the bend With nowhere to go. Looking rather lost as one evicted But across the way Who cares? Do I? Do you? For …
We went to see Hair at Weston Playhouse and the opening performance of the epic song Aquarius was easily worth the price of the ticket. It opened the floodgates of my own Hoover Dam and the 60s came roaring back into my psychic space as if my heart had willingly become a vacuum in anticipation …
Three days before the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, The first of two Japanese cities that we disintegrated, Biden sends Pelosi to Taiwan. Caramba! Now who is feeling disrespected and intimidated?! Well, China, but I’m actually referring to me! I voted for a man who is patently insane! Biden ought to be learning origami …
I permit no woman to teach or to have authority over men. She is to keep silent. – Timothy 1, 2:12-13 If the patriarchy that dominates the church is not dismantled and women are not treated as equals, the church will continue to diminish and, eventually, die. – Roy Bourgeois Discussed in this essay: Male …
I have written about how the world of human-created systems collectively constitutes an all-consuming program that is, in many ways, analogous to the Matrix in the sense that it has conditioned our worldview from top down to the micro-granular details of our lives. The only way to avoid this conditioning is to initiate out of …
Another voice. Choked. Years of medical training now transformed to crime. This angry and pained haiku was offered anonymously by a physician who has courageously traveled to offer her medical skills in Texas and several other states that have been trying to outlaw abortions and where violence against clinics and abortion providers has made it …
Right where I am sitting with my latte On a stool by the window Looking out at the harbor There is an antique cash register On a shelf above me Ornately conceived of brass and iron And wood and glass With keys like a giant typewriter Built tough as nails By the National Cash Register …
We are currently at the mercy of a cabal of self-righteous Christian zealots with a 6-3 grip on the US Supreme Court and on Congress, thanks to an arcane structure designed by slave-owning wealthy men who handed the power to a Senate dominated by small-state rich people and to their party of Christian fascists and …
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