Human Rights Under Barack Obama

How do you react to Amnesty International’s description of human rights under President Obama?

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What Should the National Mammal of the USA Be?

Can you guess what animal a group of senators proposed as the national mammal of the USA?

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Challenge: Define PostStructuralism As Coherent Without Babbling

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Challenge to deep thinkers around the world: Provide a definition of the term poststructuralist that meets the three following simple criteria: 1. Explains what poststructuralism is, rather than what it is not 2. Does not refer to structuralism 3. Is …

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Finding The Real Sporty Vehicle

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The experience of driving a Porsche Cayenne SUV is advertised to be something like this: They call it “sporty”, and for the amount of money that a person has to pay to drive a Porsche Cayenne – over $100,000 – …

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Occupy Grammar

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What’s the different message of a bumper sticker in the shape of the United States and the label “occupied territory” and a bumper sticker that’s exactly the same but with a label that reads “occupy”?

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Tweaking The Power Of Life

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The virus becomes biologically adaptive, infecting a bacteria that grows along the roadways and sidewalks, and begins to evolve to exploit its new interconnectedness… just as the human population of the Earth is undergoing a new surge upward.

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Fern Fiddlehead Friday

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It once was lawn where these ferns used to grow, but now, in the lee of a row of stacked firewood, there is permission for a higher kind of leaf. Every year, the size of the patch expands, as these …

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Sadness

The small number of people who need umbrellas anymore. Throwing away old shoes. A willow branch taking root in a gutter scheduled to be cleaned by the street sweeper. Petitions with nine signatures. Late spring frost. Putting a belt back …

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Can We Have A Day Of Global Love?

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I won’t be celebrating Global Love Day. Real love isn’t global. To say that we can achieve worldwide “oneness” through easy embraces of is to cheapen the idea of love. Real love isn’t easy. We aren’t all united as one, and we’re not going to be.

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Hillary Clinton 2016?

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Is the growing popularity of Hillary 2016 due to a quality that Clinton has herself, or is it due more to fatigue with the Obama vs. Romney contest we’re currently supposed to be focused on?

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What’s The Big Deal About Secret Service Prostitutes?

If it was Barack Obama who hired a prostitute in Colombia, I could understand calling that a scandal, though it wouldn’t really be very political. If the Secret Service agents and American soldiers had passed classified secrets on to the prostitutes, I could understand calling that a scandal. But, there’s nothing of that sort in this story, so what makes it a scandal?

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Why Aren’t Paranormal Investigators Taken Seriously?

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Should scientists stop criticizing each other’s work, and just try to get along?

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A Mantra In Five Heartbeats

One meditation technique calls for the practitioner to recite a phrase with relaxing associations as a kind of personal mantra, in rhythm with a slow pace of breathing. The mantra is thought or softly spoken during an exhalation that lasts …

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Right Wingers Have Anti-Skeptical Rejection Of Science

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The label of “skeptic” should not be sullied by connection with people who simply don’t have the strength of character to admit that they’re wrong.

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Contest: Find The Worst Pseudo-Intellectual Drivel

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I’m announcing a contest. Let’s call it a Drivel Hunt. Find one sentence or phrase containing a particularly idiotic piece of pseudo-intellectualism, and post it as a comment here.

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Where Is Your Hole In The West?

“Far, far away in the West, where things were blue and faint, Bilbo knew there lay his own country of safe and comfortable things, and his little hobbit-hole.” Modern life has brought us many accoutrements to obscure the shape of …

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Disunity Defines Spiritual Experiences

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A survey of spiritual experiences suggests that the concept of “God” is peripheral to the actual experience of the religious realm for most people… if it’s related at all.

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It’s National Napping Day, I Think

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Do an online search for pictures of napping, and almost all of what you’ll see will be photographs of animals and pre-school children. The rest of us, it seems, are working hard to comply with the admonishment: Don’t let them catch you napping! So much for National Napping Day.

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