Category: Live Bullshit Free
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No, SCOTUS — A Cross Is Not (And Can NEVER Be) “Secular” In Any Way – BECAUSE Of Its History
The Supreme Court just came down 7-2, allowing a 40-foot World War I memorial in the shape of a Christian cross to remain standing in Maryland. The American Humanist Association had sued Maryland; they wanted the state to replace the cross (erected in 1925 as a memorial to 49 local residents who died) with something…
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It’s Time To Play “BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT”
Hi there, ladies ‘n germs — I’m your host Chuck Todd (excuse me while I roll my eyes thoughtfully as if I was physically capable of having thoughts) — — And welcome to another installment of “Benefit Of The Doubt — the game show where we give the benefit of the doubt to folks who…
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Our Problem Is We Are Living Inside A Bonkers Theater Of The Absurd Play — And Don’t Know It
Rene Magritte’s Ceci N’est Pas Une Pipe poses the perfect “is it?/isn’t it? existential question (true fact — its actual name is The Treachery Of Images). What really is — or, more to the point, is anything really “is”? Is anything real? For those of us (me, for instance) who love wrestling with esoteric brain…
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Living Inside A False Narrative Is Stupid… So Why Do We Persist In Doing It?
A woman who doesn’t know the man she loves is cheating on her lives inside a false narrative — that her relationship is on solid ground. A man unaware that a tumor is metastasizing inside of him is living a false narrative that he’s healthy and not doomed. As they slept in their beds at…
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Integrity’s An All Or Nothing Proposition – You Either Have It Or You Don’t
In the movie Princess Bride, Wallace Sean’s Vizzini, confounded by their inability to outrun Cary Elwes’ Westley, repeats the word “inconceivable” with increasing consternation until, at one point, Mandy Patinkin’s Inago Montoya responds famously — We have the exact same problem with the whole concept of INTEGRITY — never mind the word. A Democratic system…
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Donald J Trump Is EXACTLY What We Mean By “The Banality Of Evil”
The truth is even Hitler had to overcome his own core mediocrity to become “HITLER”.
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Can Twitter Be Fixed? Or Has “The Fix” Always Been In At Twitter?
When I turned on my computer this morning, I learned that I am now banned from Twitter for a week. The offending tweet (I sooooo wish I had taken a few more moments before responding and screen captured it) was mild to put it bluntly. I said I wished that Donald Trump – with his…
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Some Things Just Need To Be Said: Republicans Are A Cancer
I could go on and on and on and on. Pictures speak more eloquently more quickly. This is what cancer looks like… And this… And, as one should do with a cancer, we need to chop the Republicans from our body politic. Before they kill us.
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Some Perspective On Perspective
As much as I might want to see the world through another person’s eyes, it’s a physical impossibility. The best I can ever really hope for is to imagine what the world literally looks like as they see it. It’s a fact — we all experience “experience” differently. Imagine a cube sitting alone on a…
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Life Is Like Standing In A Batter’s Box — And The Pitcher’s A Sadist
I’m not the first person to visit this analogy. But I feel that analogy every day like I’m standing in a batter’s box and whatever’s out there pitching at me is seriously off their meds. As metaphors & analogies go, life compares best to baseball (as opposed to football, basketball, soccer — or archery even).…