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• The Transcontinental Disability Choir: A Wizard Did It!

  
  Bitch Blogs — Authority: 137
  One of the things that drives me just a little bit up the wall about disability in pop culture is when creators want to have a disabled character, but dont want that character to have any of the actual consequences of being disabled. This plays out in one of two ways: Either the disability is just there , without ...
  8 hours ago

• Terrorist Watch List: The McDojo Approach to Self-Defense

  
  Striking Thoughts — Authority: 427
  The recent events at Detroit caught my attention — mostly because I have a January conference in Boston and I am now dreading the trip! In particular, what really grabbed my attention was a snip I heard on the news last night. Namely that there are over 500,000 people on the so-called terrorist watch list and that ...
  14 hours ago

• The Wrong Choice

  
  Musings From The Hinterland — Authority: 115
  I was going to write about something else, but the events surrounding the attempted destruction of the Northwest Airlines jet on Christmas, together with the administration response, have prodded me to comment about the fecklessness of bureaucrats, a topic into which I can sink my teeth at a moments notice. First, I ...
  15 hours ago

• Deepak Chopra INSISTS on Being a Muddle-Headed Buffoon

  
  Veritas Nihilum Vincet — Authority: 424
  Deepak Chopra, writing again on HuffPo, seems determined to stake out for himself some sort of Don Quixote like position as a warrior for idiocy, thrusting his imagination at science while screaming that there’s no need for evidence, only creativity.It used to annoy me to be called the king of woo woo. For those who ...
  23 hours ago

• Gifts to practical, frugal, ethical people who don’t want more crap

  
  Amys Gripping Commentary — Authority: 111
  Oh Christmas, how you fill my memories and continue to taunt me… this was a draft post from the Thanksgiving era and I figure I ought to finish it! Merry Christmas to everyone. Isn’t it great to have a fun holiday with family and then sleep in REALLY late at home the next day with no commitments? Our part of ...
  1 day ago

• Sparing you the maudlin diatribe

  
  Going against the current — Authority: 126
  The sudden turn of events is starting to be overwhelming. I am going home for the new year because my sister requested for it and that ‘we cannot afford to miss the chance of having a family picture’. But in the time of photoshop and picture editing whose products are indistinguishable from real ones, we [...]
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• Readings for January

  
  Going against the current — Authority: 126
  Of late I admit that I’ve set reading books aside. Like most Gen Y-ers, I am also as susceptible to attention deficit disorder, or something akin to it. I could not focus on just one thing. Before I realize it, my mind already starts to wander and think of another thing. And this has taken [...]
  3 days ago

• There is Always Hope

  
  The Rutherford Lawson Blog — Authority: 114
  About this time last year, I posted an article about a song that I found very moving. Today I am just posting the lyrics to the song, based on a Longfellow poem. Even though the song mentions God, I believe regardless of religious persuasion the listener can find a message that resonates. No matter how bad things ...
  3 days ago

• The Transcontinental Disability Choir: A Reconsideration of Tiny Tim, Charity, and the Good Cripple

  
  Bitch Blogs — Authority: 137
  A Christmas Carol , published in 1843, has become a Christmas classic. Chances are high that most of us have read it, read adaptations, seen it performed on stage, or seen it on film. In some households, people make A Christmas Carol a family tradition, and its supposed to be a feel-good, inspiring moral tale which ...
  3 days ago

• A Merry Christmas in Idaho

  
  NORML Daily Audio Stash — Authority: 443
  Howdy, Stashers! I say “howdy” because I am back in Idaho and that’s how we say “hello”. I’m enjoying a fine time at my folks’ place. Dad’s got huge Boise State and Green Bay banners hanging in the living room and we enjoyed the Mountain West winning their second bowl game over a PAC-10 team. The ...
  4 days ago

• The Top 10 Tech Trends of 2009

  
  Blogging the Singularity — Authority: 430
  This is the year technology changed us… Click here to see the article on the CNN Tech website. Thanks for supporting Blogging the Singularity and enjoy the Holidays!
  4 days ago

• God Bless Us, Every One!

  
  Jeff Adams — Authority: 415
  Charles Dickens published his ghost story, A Christmas Carol , in 1843, and created a phrase that is used in both secular and religious literature: “God bless us, every one.” Those of us who live in Kansas City have had the opportunity to see the wonderful productions of A Christmas Carol that have been ...
  5 days ago

• Stereotypes: The Jersey Shore Controversy

  
  To My Friends, With love...Sincerely, Toddy English — Authority: 128
    Dear Friends: Recently, a new MTV television series debuted to boffo ratings and even BIGGER controversy. The show is “ Jersey Shore ” and the Italian American community (including Alyssa Milano ) hates the bejesus out of it. The show is yet another stupid sleazy MTV reality show (calling it music ...
  5 days ago

• The Transcontinental Disability Choir: Art Imitating Life Imitating Art

  
  Bitch Blogs — Authority: 137
  Whenever someone starts talking about "crip-drag" - the slang term that basically means "currently non-disabled actor playing a disabled character" - the conversation tends to eventually (usually sooner, rather than later) turns to this: But but but! We shouldnt accept a less-than-stellar actor just because theyre ...
  5 days ago

• I Go To Sleep

  
  the realm of darkness — Authority: 99
  The events of the last few days have been quite surreal, particularly on the night that my mother was in the hospital, depending on life support to keep her going.  My sister and I were there already and the doctor said that it would be best if we took mom off of support as it is probably causing her more pain than ...
  5 days ago

• Abolishing Christmas

  
  Going against the current — Authority: 126
  MEMORANDUM No. 465371799199121SUBJECT: Abolition of Christmas and declaring it a null celebrationORIGIN: The Holy Office of the Holiest23rd December 2009______________________________________________________________________After a thorough discussion with all the concerned departments within the tiers of the Holy ...
  5 days ago

• from Virtual Reality to Augmented Reality

  
  mj — Authority: 118
  Published in 1993, Cybergeneration was a radical departure from R.Talsorian Games’ previous successful Cyberpunk line. Whereas the latter focussed on style over substance, high calibre firearms and heavily armoured Solos backed up by geeky NetRunners, CyberGeneration focussed on the kids of these embittered ...
  5 days ago

• SANTA GOES APESHIT (the infernal prophesies)

  
  Poems at The Poetry Showcase - Share your poems at the Poetry Showcase — Authority: 164
  2010: Deranged department store Santas run amok nationwide surf motorcycles into shopping malls, carrying chainsaws, hacking handicapped children to death... read more
  5 days ago

• Ang mga regalong natanggap ko sa mga nakaraang Pasko

  
  Going against the current — Authority: 126
  Di gaya no’ng nasa grade two pa ako, hindi na ako masyadong nasasabik tuwing nalalapit nang sumapit ang Pasko. Maliban kasi sa bonus na natatanggap, na madali namang nauubos, naisip kong ito’y sadyang ginawa lang para sa mga bata. Nagsimula yata akong mawalan ng gana sa Pasko nong mga taong hindi na ako nakakauwi ...
  6 days ago

• More than Original: a Q & A with the men behind ORIGINAL PLUMBING

  
  Bitch Blogs — Authority: 137
  Amos Mac and Rocco K Original Plumbing, a new magazine published and distributed out of San Francisco, is a fresh new publication dedicated to FTM sexuality and culture. Made for trans men by trans men, its first issue ( "The Bedroom Issue" ) came out in October and features voices from five rooms and a couple ...
  6 days ago

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