Politics
August 26, 2009
- Yesterday I was thinking about some of the most recent insanity and vitriol surrounding the healthcare debate--if you can call it debating--but who isn't? And how less than two years ago I was getting up every morning wondering if I would recover from the brutal cocktail of chemotherapy I was ingesting (voluntarily) into my system. Talk about insanity. But here I am 15 months in remission, ...
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August 25, 2009
- Sometimes, one gets the weirdest feedback. This one does not deserve to be reproduced, but I feel like a bit of pop psychology."Sheesh! Just three words can describe you completely---'obsessed with sex'." I was also called a pseudo intellectual, and I don't know whether it is due to my obsession with sex. I don't know when it started, but the term pseudo intellectual has gained more ...
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August 25, 2009
- Daniel Haller, Julius Mackie, William Powlis—these three men saved my life. I was 25 and in my final year of medical school. I’d had a nagging cough for several months and my friends urged me off and on to get a chest X-ray, check it out, though they half laughed when they told me. No one, I least of all, imagined anything would turn up. I was interested in radiology at the ...
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August 24, 2009
- Eileen “I was driving my son to a birthday party this afternoon and he said, “Mom, I am sorry I did not feel like working around the house this morning”. I said, “Welcome to adulthood”. He said, “Wait one minute, that has nothing to do with adulthood”. And, I said, “Yes, you are right. It has to do with responsibility”. He agreed. It is these “unprofound” conversations ...
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August 24, 2009
- The Great Exploitation Proliferation Chapter 2August 24, 2009 at 3:18 am · Filed under Culture The Great Exploitation Proliferation Chapter 2Headlines versus propaganda lets see what makes commercial news and local media. A star has lost its luster or they are questioning a prominent athletes gender and have the nerve to actually run tests on her. South African teenager Caster Semenya won the ...
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August 23, 2009
- Last week, we asked the entire Red Room to come together and blog about a notorious topic triad: "Sex, Religion, and/or Politics." Your mother may have told you that these aren't nice topics for the dinner table, but we were certain that Red Roomers would be able to handle these touchy subjects with sensitivity, intelligence, and humor. And we were right. There were many fantastic ...
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August 23, 2009
- [Like my earlier blog post, "Democrats Eat Babies on Christmas, Institute Says," this is a satire I wrote out of frustration at how absurd and "even-handedly" the mainstream press handles propaganda offered by the Religious Right. My earlier blog was picked up and reposted by the "Parenting Intelligence Report," showing that the results one gets from referral ...
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August 23, 2009
- Eileen “My comment is unpolitical, David, but so far, I am fortunate to have decent dialect with my son about what he is going through at 13. Also, we pray from our souls every night and count our blessings so I hope and think he is getting spiritual grounding. I am too tired at night to intellectualize with him. When he attends college and wants an intellectual dialogue, I will ...
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August 21, 2009
- At the tender age of nine, I arrived at morning assembly at school to find that a priest had taken over the stage. I'll call him Father Burk. Anyway, I decided on that day that I wanted to be a priest. Not because I was religious... I simply liked his frock. A gangly man with an unruly moustache and a penchant for mint imperials, Father Burk told us to reconsider our evil ways (having scanned the ...
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August 21, 2009
- A number of concepts connect sex, politics, and religion--strong belief systems, rules of transgression, long complicated histories of bad behavior, some unyieldingly bad poetry, and saddest of all, Mel Gibson movies. But, what makes these three arenas of human participation particularly powerful is the degree to which they are ultimately about submission. We like to think of all three as forms ...
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