By OcJim “It’s halftime in America” said Clint Eastwood in his rasping voice promoting GM in a Super Bowl halftime commercial. Continuing the age-old American “apple-pie” exceptionalism trademark in commercials, it is a cheerleading rally, rousing up an America pulling together, heralding the bailed-out Chrysler and GM as number…
Self injury has been such a hushed topic in the world. At one point, there was a long time of silence until now. Sometimes, it takes more than looking at some pale, young girl’s bleeding arm and realize that in order to fall low enough to bleed on the outside; you have to be bleeding on the inside as well.
By: Horton Thompson The Bardo Thodol, also known as The Tibetan Book of the Dead, is, at its core, a book about dying. Bardo Thodol, though, literally translates as Liberation Through Hearing During the Intermediate State, despite its original translator, Theosophist and scholar, Walter Evans-Wentz translating it as The…
“I'm a Christian man and I command a Christian ship! I will not lead men into sin!” ~Captain Thomas Davies (Roots) I recently watched the 1977 television miniseries Roots again, and discovered, again, why it was such a huge hit when it premiered: a sweeping saga about an American…
"Back to Black is the second studio album by English recording artist Amy Winehouse, released on 27 October 2006 by Island Records. It is the last album released in her lifetime. The album incorporates 1960s soul music styles and modern R&B production, with subjective lyrics that concern relationships and…
This was sent me last week:
Dear John, I am a secular humanist who practices Buddhism. I am writing to you because I appreciate your writings regarding people like me who do not follow Jesus. I would like to share some of my history with you, and explain why I no longer follow god.
By: Taboo Jive Editors I would like to first thank everyone who submitted work to the first month of our 2012 Taboo Jive Fiction Writing Contest. It was an amazing turnout, especially since we didn't offer a huge prize. But, as many of you have probably tried to publish…
By Jim Hoover Acrimony and lies are so much a part of Republican rhetoric that we need a full-time monitor just to catch and register the breadth and the scope of Republican fabrication, for it is rampant. We also need a historian to research the wild references made by…
A couple of years ago, I read Dr. Martin Luther King’s A Letter from a Birmingham Jail and I was mesmerized by the passion and anger in his words and although we are in the second decade of the 21st century, his words still resonate. This letter I am…
In July 2010, as I read yet another comment of not so thinly veiled hate on a thread on Facebook, two things happened to me: (1) I vowed never to keep quiet in the presence of a hate comment (on Facebook, or anywhere else), and (2) this quote—baldly borrowed…