Category: Live Bullshit Free
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America Is Realizing: It’s Been Living A Lie; The Good News? It Wants To Stop Living That Lie
The trick to living “bullshit-free” is you start with yourself. Forget anyone else’s bullshit till you’ve dealt with your own. Trust me — once you’ve started an honest, deep dive into every one of the truths, half-truths and total lies you tell yourself every day? You won’t have time to even think about anyone else’s…
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There’s No Such Thing As A “Rugged Individual”
There’s a line in the movie “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” that nails it: “When legend becomes fact, print the legend”. The “rugged individual” is pure legend. Only men ever think of themselves as “rugged individuals” who believe down to their atoms that “they alone can fix it”. They’re absolutely wrong, of course —…
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Of Rabbit Holes & Republicans
Donald Trump counts on what Steve Bannon called “flooding the zone with shit”. It’s the “How To Make A Rabbit Hole” playbook. Obfuscation and distraction are the point. While we spin our wheels in consternation at the latest outrage, Trump is busily thieving somewhere else in the environment or laying the groundwork for an even…
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How To Tell If You’re A Racist
Racism, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. But with a difference. Beauty is subjective. Racism isn’t. I may walk around being the only person who thinks I’m “beautiful”. So long as no one’s bullying me though — and so long as I’m not being destructively delusional because I think I’m an Adonis…
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Imagine For A Moment If They Stopped Selling Alcohol At Sporting Events & Sold Cannabis Instead
Someday — probably not soon but some day — Americans will get to attend live sporting events again. There’s something about watching sports and drinking that — maybe it’s habit more than anything — goes together. Or maybe we just think it does because we’ve never considered doing it another way. Human beings are like…
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How The Bible SHOULD Have Been Written
(Note: one in a continuing series). Today’s Episode ADAM & EVE: The Scene: God says he created everything including Adam and a nice place (the Garden Of Eden) for him to live in. He’s filled the garden with fruits and vegetables and animals – everything Adam might want. “It’s all yours, kid,” God tells Adam,…
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Why Did We Ever Criminalize Drug Use To Begin With? Because Judging People Is Easier Than Helping Them…
The “war on drugs” was never a war on “drugs”. Like the drug laws it was meant to epitomize, the drug war was always entirely focused on drug users. And not just the users because they were using, but on their race. The first drug law in America was written in 1875 in San Francisco…
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“Me” v “We”
That, in a nutshell, is the argument we’re having in America today: the rights of “ME” v the rights of “WE”. I hesitate to call anything “Republican thinking” anymore. That’s an oxymoron. Republicans don’t think, they perpetrate. They’re criminals engaged in a criminal enterprise — the overthrow of the legitimate American government by a devil’s…