Category: Live Bullshit Free
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Why Republicans Are Like Dimples On A Golf Ball…
I’m feeling poetic today. Metaphorical. Republicans are like dimples on a golf ball — they’re all exactly alike. If just ONE dimple is ‘DIFFERENT’, the golf ball won’t fly the same. The change might be imperceptible to all but the most discerning eye. Won’t matter. The Golf Ball will know. And republicans are the Every-Dimple-Is-Exactly-Like-Every-Other-Dimple…
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What If EVERYTHING Has Consciousness?
It’s Sunday. The ‘News Channels’ are pulling their puds and revisiting old ground (the thing they do best) in lieu of digging deeper into the Most Important Story of Anyone’s Lifetime. Their collective lack of insightful analytical skills is beyond depressing. Ironically, it got me thinking about an article I caught a few months ago…
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Will Our Age Ultimately Be Known As ‘THE BRANDED AGE’?
Americans are not generally known for their knowledge of history (or geography). We have other strengths. But, when we DO have history (and remember it), we tend to be ‘colorful’ about it. There’s a ‘pretty famous’ (if by ‘famous’ we mean Historians call it that) time period in American History called The Gilded Age. It…
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Drinking Culture Vs Cannabis Culture: We’ve Got It COMPLETELY Upside Down…
Long story short: A few days before Christmas 2016, I not only ‘flirted with suicide’, I stared long and hard into its eyes. I was lucky — and walked away alive. The medication that helped me walk away alive – Lamotrigine – is mainly used as an anti-seizure med for epilepsy sufferers; anecdotal observations suggested…
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“I Alone Can Fix It” Is BULLSHIT Top To Bottom. Any Woman Could Tell You THAT…
Among the statements Donald Trump has made that most reflect a personal ‘philosophy’ is that one: “I alone can fix it”. And it epitomizes not only NARCISSISTIC ‘thinking’ but MALE thinking, too. In fact, it IS how males tend to think and problem-solve — unilaterally. If you look at the mythological heroes we Americans have…
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When Imagination Fails – WE Fail
How does one explain the consistent inability of American News Media (and news media from all over the world) to grasp and report the Trump-Russia Story? Even now when the average panel starts to pick apart what Donald & Vlad are doing together, the Media STILL want to pretend that everything happening is absolutely normal…
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Sometimes, It’s BEST To ‘Think Like’ A STORYTELLER…
If you want to have a shot at being a successful storyteller, you need to have a better grasp of how people actually tick than most other people. Storytellers who don’t get human beings right are soon employed doing other things — storytelling being out of their range. As any reader or audience member can…
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What Tribalism IS & ISN’T
Our illustrious, observant MSM points out a lot these days how TRIBAL we’ve all become (and how ‘it’s both sides’ fault that we HAVE become so tribal). As I’m fond of saying on these pages here, if you start from a place of BULLSHIT, you will only ever see BULLSHIT in front of you. And…
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Can We Be Really, REALLY Honest With Each Other? If You Believe In Bullshit — WHY Should ANYONE BELIEVE YOU?
I’ll try and make this easy. If you boarded an airplane and the pilot announced (before the doors had closed) that not only was this his very first flight as a professional pilot — and (cause that’s not enough), he doesn’t believe in science, he believes in Magic — and just to prove that HIS…