Cartoon – Your Belief System Is Shot
Author: Antarctica Journal
Poem – Age Has Curtains (By Donal Mahoney)
Age Has Curtains An incident in youth never meant to happen recorded on a pad to be read another time is found decades later in a drawer of socks by the writer who is then on the precipice of age. His reading glasses help him understand who it was and why he did it. Not so funny now. Can’t apologize. He’s […]
Read morePoem – The Stop & Shop Strike (By Robert Ronnow)
The Stop & Shop Strike The Stop & Shop strike v. Game of Thrones. In Game what’s not made plain is the condition of the people compared with warriors and queens. There is no mention of land-clearance, tree-felling, pruning, chopping, digging, hoeing, weeding, branding, gelding, slaughtering, salting, tanning, brewing, boiling, smelting, forging, milling, thatching, fencing and hurdle-making, hedging, road-mending and […]
Read moreAung San Suu Kyi Quote – Women Are Not Merely Tolerated
“In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but valued.” – Aung San Suu Kyi
Read morePriests attack gays
Tbilisi, Georgia Orthodox priests led a mob of some 20,000 people in an attack on a small gay-rights rally in the Georgian capital last week. On a new crusade Television images showed priests throwing rocks, punching people, and pounding the buses that were trying to evacuate the marchers. Dozens of people were injured. “I am not able to either condemn […]
Read moreCartoon – Over Protection
Poem – Prevent The Fallen Hero (By Amy Hrynchuk)
Prevent The Fallen Hero (to those who risk their lives daily for us) Everyday as they get ready for work, they push aside the possibility that they may not make it home. Everyday as they walk out that door, they try to reassure their family that they will be coming home. When they put on that vest, they pray […]
Read moreBob Marley Quote – Why Should I
“People who are trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off why should I?” – Bob Marley
Read moreCartoon – The Backwards BS Detector
Teens and Sleep Deprivation
Teens that suffer from sleep deprivation may have the tendency to lose interest in school activities, get poor grades, may not be able to concentrate, anxiety, depression, thoughts of suicide, and may also get involved in more drowsy-driving accidents. In a survey the National Sleep Foundation found that 87% of students were not getting the recommended sleep time of between […]
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