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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

Current Events / Editorials / Media / Prejudice / Sexuality / Society

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…

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October 6, 2012

Alternative Healing/ Holistic Medicine / Body / Paranormal / Physics / Spirituality

Spiritual Saboteurs

At our core, we are all beings of energy. This means that there is a constant flow of energy within us. It also means there is a constant flow of energy around, through, and connecting us – and it affects you, even if you are not conscious of it.

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October 5, 2012

Country / Culture / Current Events / Gender / Government / Politics / Rachel Hockett - Articles / Society / Women's issues

Women!

It wasn’t until 1920 (the year of my 92-year-old mother’s birth) that we even had the right to vote. Certainly this is no time for us to squander that hard-won power. Did you see Gloria Steinem’s recent email (October 2, 2012), laying it out flat why women not only…

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October 4, 2012

Celebrities / Culture / Current Events / Dysfunctional family dynamics / Editorials / Entertainment

Arnold: Totally Recalled

By OcJim I always record Sixty Minutes on Sunday evening. It not only gives me the opportunity to skip the commercials but also to fast forward through segments that either don’t interest me or race past shallowness I can’t abide. Yesterday, Arnold Schwarzenegger got high-speed fast-forwards. I consider Arnold…

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October 2, 2012

Relationships

Recognition

Alyssa Hart Recently I heard about a woman who was struggling within a relationship that had become violent. Concerned about the situation, well-meaning friends urged her to take her two young children and get out of the house. I don’t know any of the people involved in this situation…

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October 1, 2012

Philosophy / Religion / Society

Religion: Purge the Nonsense – Keep the Sensible

The Four Horsemen have done us a great service. They have exposed religion to the eye of analysis and have declared with eloquence that not only is it not beyond criticism but in a civilized society its public examination is fundamentally demanded. They have exposed the horror, degradation, murder and rape that religion often fosters, the abuse heaped on children in the name of sanctity, and the extremists for their dangerous ignorance and denial of science.

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September 28, 2012

Culture / Current Events / Editorials / Politics / Prejudice

Why Do Americans Hate Poor People So Much?

Being poor in America sucks big time especially in a materialistic society such as the one we currently live in which a person is judged not for his character but about the amount of money he makes, the car he drives and the neighborhood he lives in.

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September 27, 2012

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

The All-American Flag of Homophobia

What the plaintiffs are alleging is diabolical–for a political organization to steal an image, and demonize a couple’s love and privacy, in order to peddle bigotry and hate to win votes.

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September 27, 2012

Body / Culture / Gender / Philosophy / Psychology / Relationships / Science / Sexuality / Society

Intersex, Part Two: Marriage Equality

This isn’t about “gay marriage” - bisexuals wish to marry as well - and it’s not a matter of “same-sex marriage” either, because this one still leaves intersex people in uncertainty.

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September 26, 2012