To un-friend, or not to un-friend…is there really a question?
Do you just remove them from your social media life entirely, even if you still love and respect them in general?
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October 26, 2012
Country / Editorials / Gender / Government / Media / Politics / Prejudice / Rachel Hockett - Articles / Relationships / Sexuality / Society
“This Page Does Not Exist.”
Do you need help deciding which candidate is better for LGBT and marriage equality? Let me assist you. Click here: http://www.mittromney.com/lgbt/ or here: http://www.barackobama.com/lgbt I hope this little exercise convinces everyone who either is LGBT or who loves someone who is LGBT to vote Obama/Biden. When you click on…
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October 18, 2012
Amanda Todd: Cyberbullying Out-of-Control
This is the one. If ever there was one event that got a little too deep under my skin, this is it. If ever there was one teen suicide that illustrated as clearly as the day is long that it is beyond time for us to stop talking about…
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October 14, 2012
Corporate Elite Put us on this Path of Doom / Culture / Current Events / Editorials / Education / Media / Politics
Carpal Tunnel Brain Syndrome
By OcJim Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is a common ailment that causes swelling of the nine tendons in your carpal tunnel, causing pain, numbness, and discomfort in your hand and fingers. Carpal Tunnel Brain Syndrome involves repetitious attacks on your frontal lobe, inducing emotional and ill-advised decision-making. We have been…
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October 9, 2012
Why We’re Losing Ground in Bullying Prevention
I’ve been writing this blog article for about a week now, in my mind. Each time I thought I was ready move it from my mind to my fingers and onto my keyboard, that voice inside me would say “wait! not yet”. Normally, I hate when that happens. That…
October 6, 2012
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.
September 22, 2012
Protests across the Islamic World — Instigated by Romney Backers?
By OcJim Everybody loves a conspiracy theory and some even defend them with their dying breath, but put together enough evidence, exercise enough logic, and put on your perception glasses and one nefarious plot line make sense. Take the anti-Islamic slide show that prompted protests at multiple U.S. Embassies…
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September 19, 2012
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
In memory of September 12th, 2001
I will always remember the events of 9-11 and the decade that has followed. But I mourn far more the loss of what we as Americans shared on 9-12 2001
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September 11, 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…
September 6, 2012