Tag Archives: fear

Blueprint for the Disintegration of America

December 10, 2007 – 5:49 pm

Bumper stickers as the modern version of political activism… Photo by cesar bojorquez. (License: Creative Commons Attribution)Recently, there has been an increasing amount of talk centering on the possibility (or even probability) that President Bush and his administration are going to declare martial law and bring around a new fascist state. […]

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Why We Need Halloween

October 29, 2007 – 5:54 pm

Photo by Matt Reinbold. (License: Creative Commons Attribution) Even outside the church, there are concerns that it promotes unhealthy food choices. It scares the little ones. And to top it all off, it’s dangerous, with its glorification of violence, poisoned and razor-bladed treats, and the way it encourages children to take candy […]

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Staring Into The Abyss

September 17, 2007 – 11:59 am

The real thing doesn”t photograph well. You will have to go with my symbolic representation. Pic by me. For some people, it is simply a culmination of small things, over the years, and it is impossible to pinpoint the one that tipped us over. However we get there, most people, sooner or later, find themselves […]

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Kids These Days

April 30, 2007 – 11:49 am

’nuff said Photo by カランドラカス. (License: Creative Commons Attribution)Before we go any further, there is something you should know about me. I was one of those kids. The scary, weird kids that you try to keep an eye on, ’cause you know there is something wrong, but you don’t know […]

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Poltergeists, Superpowers, and The Tao

April 25, 2007 – 2:11 pm

The superhero lurking within… Photo by Kevin Tostado. (License: Creative Commons Attribution)When I was about ten years old, my Mom laid down the law: I was old enough to sleep in my room with the door closed and the light off. I don’t know exactly why she felt compelled to declare […]

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Vampire Mythology and Corporate America

April 18, 2007 – 7:45 pm

The fiends lurk in the most unimaginable places… Tales of vampires have been with us for thousands of years. The Babylonians had Lilith, who reputedly had a thing for sucking the blood of babies. The fiends lurk in the most unimaginable places…The Greeks had the lamaias, also with a penchant for the little ones. The […]

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Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?

September 6, 2006 – 9:09 pm

This article started as a comment I made on another thread. The more I thought about it, the more I thought that what I had said there wasn’t enough. It seems clear that this is the most important topic of our times. This is what is making me grind my teeth at […]

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Learning All The Time

August 28, 2006 – 9:08 pm

I am occasionally asked to explain my reasons for homeschooling my son. I am sometimes asked to explain how it works. I am often accosted by well meaning individuals who want to know why I am warping my child socially by not sending him to school. And every now and then, I meet people […]

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