Here's what I look forward to: A day when (some) straight people no longer feel the need to say they're ‘straight, but they support LGBT rights.’ Too bad there's still the compunction to make that distinction. Gay rights = human rights. We're all the same. Someday orientation will be…
By OcJim Who are the people responsible for the starvation of education in America and the heartless treatment of the vulnerable? We all have a role in this disgrace, but the biggest role can be laid at the feet of the rich -- most notably, Wall Street marauders, conservative…
The role that the educational system should play in the lives of individuals is to educate them to be conscious, critically thinking individuals who do not passively accept knowledge but question the knowledge that is being taught to them. Education should be taught to give students the skills and…
The year was 1984. My wife Catherine and I were living in Lancaster, CA, a small, blazingly hot town on the western edge of the Mojave Desert, where she and I had moved to help care for her sick mother. Here's pretty much exactly how I will always remember…
By: Greg Timton Interzone is perhaps one of the most important short story collections ever written by an American. Written by William Burroughs, famed for such gems like Naked Lunch, Queer, Junkie, and cut-up fiction, among other writings, Interzone represents perhaps the best representation of Burroughs in whole. The…
In 1963, a group of high school students started a rock and roll band in Richmond, Kentucky. They called themselves "The Exiles." Those original Richmond Exiles were Jimmy Stokley, Ronnie 'Mac' Davenport, Ronnie Hall, Paul Smith, J. P. Pennington,Tom Dunn and Buzz Cornelison. Their chosen name may have resulted…
By OcJim Now that Mitt has released his 2010 tax statement, we can breathe easier knowing, by example, how the rich do it. Ergo, we can become as rich as Mitt. Instead of envying the rich from afar, we can watch rich in our own mirrors behind closed doors.…
By: Daniel Mosh It's something you just don't think about on a daily basis: how many slaves do you unknowingly use in a day? And of course who would want to think about the question. It's not flattering to think that even in today's Western society after decades and…
By: Daniel Mosh Birth control has had a precarious relationship with the Catholic Church in the past. Since the inception of oral contraception, i.e. The Pill, in the 1960s and the legalization of abortion in Roe v. Wade in 1973, the Catholic Church has perhaps been the most vocal…
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