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Sometimes you have to act like a hero in order to live as decent human being.

I just wanted to get off the phone, so I could say out loud a soft, “yes!”, make a silent prayer of gratitude, and then just cry a little.

Dept of Ed efforts to prevent more teen suicides evoke the predictable and the truly bizarre.

RD’s weekly review doesn’t flinch when Kareem Abdul-Jabbar shows up in a Stetson.

While Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell didn’t say anything about Wicca, per se, when she talked about “dabbling into witchcraft,” her more recent “kill the witch” comments will surely distance her further from pagan communities used to dealing (especially around Halloween) with this confusion between the swirling cultural tropes of “the witch” and those who embrace “witch” as a religious self-description.

We’re not “stuck and polarized” by special interests, but because our politicians couldn’t imagine their way out of a wet paper bag.

Far-right ties.

Tribulation Trail, and other “Hell Houses” are not solely managing hypothetical fears of what may happen in end-times scenarios; they are about managing fears about the present and imagining a way out now. This “way out” is much more than metaphysical. It seems to fit with the material realities of what it is like to be a member of the working class of the U.S., by offering a sense of orientation and self-worth to people who have been demoralized and exploited in almost every other possible way.