Friday, September 27, 2019

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  • Make peace with your past. So that it doesn’t ruin your present. Remember your past cannot establish your future. Your expectations and behavior do. What others think of you is...

    • Inevitability, you will cross paths with a toxic grudge bearer in your lifetime. Most people who get angry tend to express it openly, and then there are the few who use other tactics...

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  • Calculating net carbs is one way to count the carbohydrates within a food product or meal plan. In this article, learn more about net carbs and how to calculate them...
  • While some chemical imbalances can be a factor in certain symptoms of mental health conditions, they do not tell the whole story. Learn more about the myths and facts here...

    • A range of viral infections, including shingles, chickenpox, and measles, can cause a skin rash. Learn more about the types, symptoms, and treatment of a viral rash here...
    • Over the past couple of weeks, Red Clay Consolidated School District Board of Education member Jason Casper has been a lightning rod of controversy over Facebook posts supporting...

      Have You Heard



  • TweetTheater teacher Quinn Strassel has seen first hand the impact that Betsy DeVos has had on Michigan’s public schools. And so he decided to fight back, by writing a musical. Strassel...
  • TweetIn the latest episode of Have You Heard we go back to school. And not to the idealized, romantic notion of school but to the harsh reality that awaits too many students and teachers...

    • TweetStep one: become an expert in the regulations governing (and more importantly, not governing) charter schools in your state. Step two: recruit as many students as possible...

      Chicago Boyz



  • Stuart Schneiderman had a post on the question:  Should Government Produce Happiness?   One commenter said: We might say Nazi Germany tried to produce happiness by promoting...
  • In 2015, I posted the poem “Into Our Town the Hangman Came,” with comments about its relevance to the current political situation.  I’ve now reposted this poem at Ricochet...

    • The homeless, like the poor are, as Jesus depressingly observed, always with us. Admittedly the American poor are darned well-off, when compared to the poor in other times and in other...

  • Bill Whittle 144K subscribers Democrat Presidential candidates Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren unveil plans to tax wealth progressively to fund Medicare for All...
  • Bill Whittle 144K subscribers House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announces an impeachment inquiry against President Trump. Bill Whittle thinks she has just handed the president a 2020...

    • Bill Whittle 144K subscribers Teacher Melissa Barnett takes to Twitter and praises the dumping of classic books — including works by Orwell, Steinbeck and Vonnegut — to replace...

      The BRAD BLOG


  • It’s NICOLE SANDLER, filling in again for Brad and Desi on the BradCast. We’re still awaiting word on Brad’s father. In the meantime, we’re sending love and prayers his way...

    • It's another busy day on the BradCast, with me, NICOLE SANDLER, holding down the fort while Brad and Desi deal with his father's catastrophic medical emergency. If you only got your...

      bluebird of bitterness




  • Happy birthday, Matt

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  • It’s the birthday of Matt Harding (b. 1976), who became an internet celebrity when his dancing-around-the-world videos went viral. My personal opinion is that if you can watch...

  • It’s geek to me

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  • Strike for Climate Action, San Francisco, CA. Photo: Mary Spadaro.In Washington, D.C., Beyond Nuclear staff took part in both the International Youth Climate Strike on Friday...
  • Three Mile Island Alert has put up a billboard in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, warning folks that vigilance is still very much needed, even after the Three Mile Island nuclear power...

    • EnviroVideo's Karl Grossman interviews Beyond Nuclear's Kevin Kamps on the Trump Administration's effort to revive the economically failing and increasingly dangerous nuclear...

  • The statement above was not written by Franz Kafka. In fact, it was written by a Kafka derivative: Brussels-based European bureaucracy. The Merkel-Macron-Johnson trio, representing...
  • Google’s new Nest Hub Max is a smart display unit that comes equipped with a 6.5-megapixel facial recognition camera that identifies you and monitors all your actions – inside...

    • Two years ago, police responding to a call of domestic violence went to the wrong home and killed an innocent husband. A year later, the tragedy grew deeper when TFTP learned that the...

  • Our weekly round-up of the best psychology coverage from elsewhere on the web
  • By Rhi Willmot. Distancing ourselves from others may help us lie - but also make social interactions more difficult.

    • By Emma Young. Participants showed remarkably similar patterns of activity when they read or listened to stories.

      Atlas Obscura - Latest Articles and Places



  • After they failed to overthrow the Qing Dynasty in 1877, thousands of Muslims living in Western China, called Dungans, were exiled to Imperial Russia, settling on the very fringes...
  • “It’s not all that tasty,” admits Murdanie Macleod, a merchant marine who lives just outside Ness, Scotland. “If it were available year round, I’d still only eat it once...

    • The year 1910 was an eventful one in Mexico. Taking place during the historical period known as Porfiriate, this year saw the Centennial celebration of the start of the country’s...

      Accidental Deliberations



  • Assorted content to end your week.- Manfred Bienefeld writes about the gap between the urgent problems we face, and the sad excuses for policies on offer from the Libs and Cons as Canadians...
  • This and that for your Thursday reading.- George Monbiot argues that it's time to cap the amount of wealth any person can accumulate, while highlighting the importance of accepting...

    • Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading.- Sarmishta Subramanian writes that messages of exclusion and division tend to be amplified for political purposes rather than...

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