December 2011
30 posts
Rob Delaney: On Depression & Getting Help →
This was originally posted February 26, 2010.
I deal with suicidal, unipolar depression and I take medication daily to treat it. Over the past seven years, I’ve had two episodes that were severe and during which I thought almost exclusively of suicide. I did not eat much and lost weight during…
Many eulogizers have prefaced their obits with “love him or hate him…,” but...
– Sean O’Neal puts it nicely in The AV Club.
In the end and at the end, Hitchens made me feel braver about most things, and especially non-existence, than any sermon ever could.
That is all.
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Review: A Game of Thrones
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Quinns: This month saw the release of a beautiful new edition of the Game of Thrones board game, a game of duplicity and scheming that, according to rumours, is so mean it’s actually capable of damaging friendships. Yesterday Paul and I played it, and today we seek to answer two very serious questions. One, should you buy it? And two, following his incredible defeat, will Paul...
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When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s...
– John Lennon
My Occupy LA Arrest, by Patrick Meighan →
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My name is Patrick Meighan, and I’m a husband, a father, a writer on the Fox animated sitcom “Family Guy”, and a member of the Unitarian Universalist Community Church of Santa Monica. I was arrested at about 1 a.m.…
Please read and share this. It’s unbelievable how the press is completely distorting the truth of police brutality and blatant disregard for...