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Children of Big Brother: What It Means to Go Back-to-School in the American Police State
John & Nisha Whitehead
“Every day in communities across the United States, children and adolescents spend the majority of their waking hours in...
Why It Matters
Todd Hayen
I have always considered myself a rather apolitical person, even to the point where I didn’t bother myself with...
Self Reliance
Todd Hayen
I was first introduced to the brilliance of Ralph Waldo Emerson when studying the principles of Science of Mind over...
The Joy of Defiance
Todd Hayen
Born free, as free as the wind blows. As free as the grass grows. Born free to follow your...
Of Cabbages and Things
Sylvia Shawcross
Now, I was looking at the cabbage. It was $7.29. It is true. The cabbage, a tiny little thing...
WATCH: The Rings of Prime – Sound and fury, signifying nothing
J R Leach
As the global machine steamrolls through entertainment at the same relentless pace as it does everything else, we invite...
Hanging by a Thread
Todd Hayen
It is quite amazing how close people are to serious mental illness. What is serious mental illness? Suicidal depression,...
The Turn of the Screw
Todd Hayen
Remember when you were a kid and saw “thumbscrew torture” for the first time in some late-night horror film?...
Project Total Control: Everything Is a Weapon When Totalitarianism Is Normalized
John & Nisha Whitehead
“The biggest mistake I see is people waiting for A Big Sign that’ll tell them that things have gone...
Nothing is Perfect
Todd Hayen
I was reading an article from KW Norton Borders about AI going rogue and for whatever reason my brain...
The Scuppering
Sylvia Shawcross
And so the Puppet Masters smiled. Now children, it is not difficult. Not difficult at all. There’s this thing...
Supreme Court Makes the President a Dictator for Life
John & Nisha Whitehead
“The relationship between the President and the people he serves has shifted irrevocably. In every use of official power,...
The British Government?
Iain Davis
Well, here in the UK we have a new Trilaterist….er, sorry, I meant Labour government, led by the charismatic...
That’s All Folks (Redux)
CJ Hopkins
Well, what do you know, it looks like we’ve got another “CRISIS OF DEMOCRACY” on our hands. Yes, that’s...
Don’t Kid Yourself
Todd Hayen
So many people I read or talk to seem to think that we shrews are making inroads, primarily in...
Mission Creep: How the Police State Acclimates Us to Being Modern-Day Slaves
John & Nisha Whitehead
“In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with whom one can argue, to whom one can present...
A Father’s Day Message to Rory McIlroy
Edward Curtin
I’m easily old enough to be your father, and as I was watching and rooting for you when you...
The Death of the Shadow
Todd Hayen
Recently my sister gave me an article written in a weekly magazine that the El Convento Hotel in San...
AI and Commercial Music
Todd Hayen
Del Bigtree recently devoted a segment on his popular program, The Highwire, on the advent of AI in commercial music. Del...
Whistling in the Dark
Sylvia Shawcross
In the morning, the bobolink sings. It always heartens me—listening to the morning chorus of creatures waking up to...
