I admit it, I’m a fan of Tom Cruise. Ever since Top Gun, anyway. I didn’t care much for Risky Business. And now Tom is back on Oprah’s couch. He’s not jumping for joy this time, but he is celebrating 25 years of being a leading actor in films. In other words it’s been 25 […]
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“These are not dark days…”
When I see the news with its talk of ruin, injustice, inequities (and iniquities) and failures in the world, it all seems very “gloom and doom”. Terrorism, the rise of militant Islam in the world, the impossibly high cost of health care, the high taxes, the unemployment, the failing educational system, man-made global warming etc., […]
Tax Freedom Day – Thomas Jefferson quote
The group Downsize DC has put up a good quote from Thomas Jefferson about taxes, which I’m adopting and putting on my quotes page: “We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we run into such debts, as that we must be taxed in our meat and in our […]
Global Warming Test
Global warming is happening – there’s little controversy over that (although with snow here in Oregon in mid April, it’s sometimes hard to believe that other areas are warming up enough to average it out). There’s a lot of controversy over how much, and to what degree it is caused by human activities. Here’s a […]
Generation Rx
This trailer for a new movie, called “Generation Rx” is generating some buzz. The movie itself has already garnered some great reviews. Paul Haggis called the film “A powerful and often chilling eye opener. The stories continue to haunt me.” The film will be released within the next few months, if all goes well in […]
Humor
I rarely post humor. Something about Gaping Void (cartoons from Hugh MacLeod, a cartoonist currently living in Alpine, Texas) got me laughing. There’s not enough of some kinds of laughter in the world, and too much of the laughter out there is mean-spirited. This cartoonist seems to have done a good job of being — […]
Spring is here at last
Just a couple of weeks ago our grandkids were building little snowmen after what was probably the last snowfall of the season: It seems like Spring only arrived yesterday, in that we haven’t had to have a fire going in the woodstove the last couple of days. That’s a lovely break as it seems like […]
Prescription for Violence – psych drugs causing school shootings
A new hard-hitting anti-psych video from CCHR, the Citizens Commission on Human Rights, of which I’ve been a member since 1972, highlights the firm link between school shootings and the drugs that the shooters were on. Drugs like Ritalin and Prozac ARE the reason these school shootings are taking place. These drugs need to be […]
Marianne Williamson quote (mis-attributed to Nelson Mandella)
I subscribe to a weekly newsletter called “Optimism“, put out by Cecile Vowles of Sydney, Australia. It’s very uplifting, as the title implies, and has her marvelous humor sprinkled throughout. Today Cecile quoted Nelson Mandella, who was apparently quoting from Marianne Williamson’s 1992 book, “A RETURN TO LOVE” : Our deepest fear is not that […]
BBC psychiatrist Tonmoy Sharma is found guilty of serious professional misconduct….
This article from London’s Daily Telegraph reports that a psychiatrist often picked by the BBC as a talking head Tonmoy Sharma is being struck off the medical register for fraud and misconduct, including pretending to be a PhD when he wasn’t. After a ten-month hearing process, he was found guilty of “serious professional misconduct”. He […]