Category: Suicide Prevention
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Why Do I Call This Blog What I Call It? Because Bullsh*t Nearly Killed Me, That’s Why!
Devout atheist that I am, I consider myself “born again’. I have seen with my own eyes the havoc bullshit can cause in both my daily life and over the whole length of it. I bear witness to bullshit’s remarkable power to convince us that it is truth and truth is bullshit. Actually, bullshit’s much…
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The Only Confession Booth Anyone Needs Is Their Own Bathroom Mirror
No confessions required. We all do this. We just do. We stand in front of a bathroom mirror and we get real with ourselves — realer than we get with anyone else because the person we’re getting really, really REAL with is US. When we look into our own eyes, we see a version of…
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In Cannabis Veritas
In vino veritas is how the original goes: in wine there is truth. Actually, the original original goes in libris veritas: in books there is truth. Books has it right. Wine… not so much. Oh, the occasional drunk may spew out how they really feel about you or the world in that instant, but the…
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Rush Limbaugh Is The Poster Boy For What Happens When Conservatism Crashes Into Reality
I don’t wish cancer on anyone. Not out loud anyway. Inside my head might be another story but that’s between me and me. For years, Rush Limbaugh used his radio show to 1) pooh-pooh the harmful effects of tobacco (and cigar smoking) while advocating that his audience take up the habit BECAUSE TOBACCO COULDN’T HURT…
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What Being Deeply Depressed Taught Me About Life — And Being Happy
Three days before Christmas 2016, I came within literal inches of harming myself, perhaps fatally. It was pure impulse — a flash of self-directed anger that I’d been building toward for a decade. Oh, the irony… even as I plotted to off myself, I didn’t know (or admit to myself) WHY I felt this terrible…
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A Thought Experiment: What If We “COULD” Sue Gun Manufacturers & The NRA?
Buy literally any other product in America and it causes harm — you can sue the product’s manufacturer because of the harm that product caused. The one exception is GUNS. For real. You cannot sue a gun manufacturer because their gun hurt someone. Or even something (and we know how much gun-loving conservatives value property…
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The Trump Presidency Is A Clinic On WHY We ALL Should Want To Live Bullshit Free
Donald Trump and his presidency have unleashed a golden age of bullshit upon the land. We know for a fact that if Donald Trump — or anyone supporting him — opens their mouth, what follows will almost certainly be a total lie. After 3+ years of living inside this nonstop maelstrom of nonsense and fuckery,…
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Each & Every One Of Us Is Making It Up As We Go Along — Every Day; Why Not Own It?
I’ve told this story here before. Three days before Christmas 2016, I came within inches of bullshitting myself to death. That’s how I thought of it not long afterward — after driving straight to my doctor’s office and pretty much demanding that he write me a prescription for the mood stabilizer I had researched and…