When I read Upski’s second bookNo More Prisons, I learned about America’s love affair with prisons and social engineering through schooling. It made me think deeply about the dangers of the societal obsession with the safety and security of prison-like environments, which leave many people t...
the first thing in the morning. If my crush Justin does the bare minimum of acknowledging my presence, it’s a day like no other in this year. Or if he takes it a step ahead and graces me with his beguiling smile, it’s a day like no other in my life. As I filled ...
For quite some time this sentiment has deeply resonated with me. And it still does. However, only recently did I realize that Camus still harbored a kind of existential resentment towards our universe. Deep down, he was still against being. Why else would you want to revolt against ...
What about victims that cannot speak about vaccine harm without being accused of being anti-vax? The pharma companies now admit that vaccination does not impact on transmission. Did the gov’t know when they mandated the vaccines that they had not been tested to find whether they prevented tran...
From the man who gave us the anthemic “Redemption Song,” it’s time to redeem him from all the blurs of head-shop posters, T-shirts, and weed references in which we lost the real Bob Marley and look back at the iconic and truly authentic fashion style the King of Reggae has bless...
13. “If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.”~Flavia Weedn 14. “Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.”~Christian D....
More humbly, this place, and more specifically our discussions with Penny Harvey and Karen Waltrop, guest speakers at this workshop, inspired me to put into dialogue these different conceptions of utopia. References Ajl, M. 2021. Does the arab region have an agrarian question? The Journal of...
Talking to Taste of Country in May of 2024, Jelly Roll said smoking marijuana has kept him sober: "I think a world without weed, Jelly Roll's drinking codeine and popping Xanax and snorting cocaine again, but a world with weed, I'll be alright." ...
No doubt, some of the pain people experience in stepping awayreally doeshave a lot to do with this kind of social dislocation. But should social separation hurtthis bad? 2. The pain of something deeper. A second way of making sense of this same exquisite pain doesn’t deny the pai...
“Our base does not want Sheila Jackson Lee by any means,” Harris County GOP Chair Cindy Siegel said. “She’s focused on things that I don’t think the city of Houston voters are focused on, and Whitmire seems to stay on point in talking about the issues, like crime.” ...