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É o jeitinho brasileiro

... in a nutshell, Brazil, and virtually every other country in Latin America, is a thriving, living, breathing community steeped in natural and social beauty, with an irrepressible spirit and admirable strength of will and determination to be the masters of their own destiny.

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September 25, 2012

Country / Culture / Education / Media / Philosophy / Society

The Devolution from Hunter Gatherers to Consumer Culture: We No Longer Live Life, We Consume It

As a hunter gatherer, we retained the behavior of building the safe base (i.e. the home) and continued the hunting strategy only we now project this impulse on a different platform. We are now the workaholic, grocery store shopper desperately trying to fulfill our needs.

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September 22, 2012

Country / Culture / Current Events / Gender / Government / Politics / Prejudice / Rachel Hockett - Articles / Society

I Am the 47

Dear Governor Romney: With less than seven weeks until American voters determine the fate of the free world—no, the whole world—in the presidential election, I wanted to ask you how you’re doing. I’ve been reading things you said that you didn’t expect to have to share with the whole…

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September 20, 2012

Celebrities / Culture / Current Events / Editorials / Philosophy

From Redeemer to Marketeer

One question might loom for both the Republican candidates and all of their current colleagues: Why are your hearts, your souls and your minds focused on helping only the rich and abandoning the less well-to-do?

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September 18, 2012

Britain/England/UK / Country / Culture / Government / Media / Politics / Society

A Real Imagined Community

The Paralympics have finished, the euphoria has died down, and the weather is quickly getting colder. After one of the most blistering, enjoyable and exhausting Olympic/Paralympic games in modern history, this small island is fast reverting back to the status quo and hurriedly forgetting this extremely brief diversion. In Britain it…

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September 14, 2012

Corporate Elite Put us on this Path of Doom / Country / Culture / Current Events / Editorials / Government / Philosophy / Politics

Ryan’s Ode to Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand was a novelist, an atheist, and a philosopher, especially beloved by libertarians and conservative, free-market advocates. Her belief in “rational self-interest” saw virtue in greed and evil in altruism. Her philosophy helped justify the conservative agenda of reverse Robin Hood, giving to the rich and taking from…

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September 13, 2012

Censorship / Country / Culture / Current Events / Facebook Fan pages / Government / Prejudice / Rachel Hockett - Articles / Relationships / Sexuality / Society

The Censors Are Coming

And what’s more troubling is that Facebook would let a page that "prays for the death of President Obama" stand while deleting a liberally leaning political one. It makes no sense, and implies a great and deep lack of fair play and ethics on Facebook's part.

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September 13, 2012

Corporate Elite Put us on this Path of Doom / Country / Culture / Gender / Government / Media / Politics / Prejudice / Rachel Hockett - Articles / Relationships / Sexuality / Society

The Bully Versus the Bully Pulpit

In May I wrote about the troubling homophobic bullying incident in which Mitt Romney was the ringleader when but a high school lad, back in 1965. My suggestion, and many others’, was that Romney’s inability (or unwillingness) to own up to his youthful misdeeds (most of us have done…

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September 6, 2012

Culture / Education / Gender / Media / Prejudice / Sexuality / Society

Wipe Out Transphobia: Emma Bailey

Shared via Wipe Out Homophobia After Wipe Out Transphobia's recent rise in popularity and boost in numbers, I asked the creator, Emma Bailey if she wouldn't mind giving us a little more background on her page, community and mission.... 1. What made YOU become an online activist? After I came out,…

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September 4, 2012

Art / Country / Culture / Current Events / Entertainment / Facebook Fan pages / Gender / Government / Prejudice / Rachel Hockett - Articles / Relationships / Sexuality / Society / Theater

The Homecoming Players Take On “8 the Play”

The Homecoming Players in Ithaca, New York, for which I serve as artistic director, won a slot in the national series of staged readings of Dustin Lance Black’s new documentary play, 8, which we performed on August 10. We were thrilled to be part of this program, and a…

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August 30, 2012