OPTICAL DELUSION: “Shake Your Head Horizontally”
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Op-Ed: “U.S. is Exceptional — and Stupid, Too” / Miami Herald / Leonard Pitts, Jr.
Sometimes you read a sentence and you think to yourself: only here, only us. Here’s one such sentence.
“A 9-year-old girl from New Jersey accidentally shot and killed her instructor with an Uzi submachine gun while he stood to her left side, trying to guide her.”
LABOR: “Labor Day, the Less Radical Alternative to May Day”
CARTOON MOVIE: “The Church Through the Ages” / nakedpastor / David Hayward
FAITH: “Intellectual Laziness” / F. M. Knowles
DOCUMENTARY: “SEC Storied: Herschel Walker”
ANTI-THEISM: “The Conscientious Objection to Religion”
h/t: Atheism 411
ANTI-THEISM: “Godless In America: The COMPLETE Short Film of Madalyn Murray O’Hair”
RACIAL BIGOTRY: “What This Flag Has Always Meant”
CANNABIS: “Leading Anti-Marijuana Academics are Paid by Painkiller Drug Companies” /
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VICE has found that many of the researchers who have advocated against legalizing pot have also been on the payroll of leading pharmaceutical firms with products that could be easily replaced by using marijuana. When these individuals have been quoted in the media, their drug-industry ties have not been revealed.
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As ProPublica reported, painkiller-funded researchers helped fuel America’s deadly addiction to opioids such as OxyContin and Vicodin. These academics, with quiet funding from major pain pill firms, encouraged doctors to over-prescribe these drugs for a range of pain relief issues, leading to where we stand today as the world’s biggest consumer of painkillers and the overdose capital of the planet.
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