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In the midst of the Coates phenomena I saw a call for people to buy copies of TaNehisi Coates' Between the World and Me at black bookstores. I found the suggestion laughable. The current s… Read More

Trevor Noah does an excellent job of proving that Trump is everything that the GOP has been searching for. A classic take down of current GOP hypocrisy & lies about Trump not being a con… Read More

This post is dedicated to my cat, Shadow, that was spayed by her first owner. Not only the owner spayed her, she also abandoned her, which is why I have adopted her.Let's take a look at what… Read More

Words shape the direction of our lives. The words spoken to us, around us and over us create pathways upon which our lives play out. Words can build up or tear down, set limits or promo… Read More

Hi everyone, Today’s guest post comes from Nemisha and her cat Snowy! The Bravest Cat I Know I am anyone’s definition of a cat-crazy lady: I love cats, I’ve always wanted… Read More

Background for the following proofs:Economist Robert Reich Calls The GOP's Economic & Political Tactics TREASONA Summary Of The Corporate Media's Iraq War Treason Towards The People Of T… Read More

Often, helping professionals in the lives of foster care youth struggle to understand the magnitude of loss a child or teen in the foster care system has experienced.  Abuse and ne… Read More

Background: Ted Cruz Voted WITH The GOP Establishment To NOT Help 9/11 First RespondersJeb Bush endorses Ted Cruz making Cruz the establishment's last hope... and the torch bearer of GO… Read More

Throughout the history of mankind, there have been countless atrocities committed due to the cruel and irrational impulses of tyrants in power. This includes barbaric ways of torturing inno… Read More

Recently, celebrity actor Dax Shepard, who previously appeared on NBC’s Parenthood and is also married to actress Kristen Bell, revealed in an interview that he had been molested… Read More

By Angela Codner, Elaine Hannah, Donna Martin, & Remeca Tomlin The Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) (2011) most recent study on domestic violence found that in the United States… Read More

The Thirteen Seasons (Heavy on the Winter) #6: Fall, 1994 By Mike Kelley (All Photos By Gail) Skarstedt’s Chelsea gallery is currently hosting an exhibition of Mike Kelley’s shap… Read More

This post is basically a commentary on what has to be one of the best con jobs in this years "Democratic" primary, i.e. talking to Hillary as if she isn't lying and we don't have proof of th… Read More

The First Nations community of Attawaspikat in Ontario, Canada, is in a state of emergency. Since September 2015, over 100 people have attempted suicide, one of them just 11 years old. Eleve… Read More

Trigger Warning for Suicide, sexual abuse, assisted suicide, euthanasia The Dutch Euthanasia Commission recently revealed that last year, in the Netherlands, an unnamed woman was granted a d… Read More

One hundred years ago, Woodrow Wilson historically hosted the first motion picture screened at the White House. The film, based on Thomas Dixon’s novel The Clansman, was D W Griffith&r… Read More

Johnny Depp performed at his Sweden gig as intended regardless of a social media campaign prompting for a boycott of the show because of his wife Amber Heard’s domestic abuse promises… Read More

“Institutionalized marginality, the liminal state of social death, was the ultimate cultural outcome…The marginal person while a threat to moral and social order was often essen… Read More

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is introducing eight separate bills covering the Governor, and singly or in combination, differing sets of statewide and legislative offices. The bills would apply… Read More

There's alot of words being said about Trump and women so I thought I would highlight some from the Daily Show and compare it to news items on Hillary.TALES FROM THE TRUMP ARCHIVE - DONALD T… Read More

Smartphones have become such an integral part of our lives that nobody even notices the signs of addiction. There is a pre-formed notion in people’s minds that alcohol or substance abu… Read More

Individuals with atrial fibrillation, or A-Fib, are a greater concern for life insurance companies. Even though A-Fib itself is not considered to be life threatening, it is known to lead to… Read More

Background:Daily Show Makes A Good Point On Guns & I Explain Why I'm Switching Positions From Supporting Assault Rifles To Wanting To Ban Them (Also covers how terrorist know US is… Read More

Helping Your Child Cope with Divorce CHILDREN NEED HELP with SEPARATION and DIVORCE. If your parents divorced when you were young, did they know how to help you? If yes, you were fortunate… Read More

A new report by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) provides state-by-state results on adolescents (ages 12-17) who experienced at least one major depressi… Read More

Legislative Updates California: Marie Waldron (R-Escondido) plans to introduce legislation designed to protect the voting records of individuals. “With new technology advancements com… Read More

The June Primary election exposed an unacceptable potential for voter fraud in California that the State Legislature must immediately fix. In just three Counties, Contra Costa, Alameda and… Read More

Animal rescue goes viral, benefiting animals in need and their lucky humans.  If we’ve learned nothing else through social media, it’s pretty obvious we are all suckers for… Read More

Despite the fact that researchers, historians and investigators have in some cases dedicated their lives to some of the mysteries below, many of them are unsolved and the truth may never com… Read More

Being able to communicate in an efficient manner with your children is paramount for their healthy development. What you get them used to, while they are growing up, will reflect in how… Read More

Can it be that every story of how to influence people have a bad connotation? Is it influence, or is it manipulation? Both influence and manipulation are how we change the behaviors of anoth… Read More

Empathy is the ability to feel and emotionally understand what another person is experiencing and going through. Let’s define empathy A simpler definition of empathy is having the abil… Read More

The risk of sophisticated malware, especially of ransomware, has grown exponentially over the years. This means we need to evolve our techniques for mitigation, detection and monitoring… Read More

It all started by auditing Pornhub, then PHP and ended in breaking both… We have gained remote code execution on pornhub.com and have earned a $20,000 bug bounty on Hackerone. We… Read More

InSite,the first legal supervised injection site, was opened in 2003 in East Vancouver, British Columbia, where there is a significant drug problem.  Dr. Gabor Maté writes candid… Read More

The Wicked Boy – Kate Summerscale Perhaps it is a legacy of Greek mythology which was once at the core of some of our educational curricula that we regard matricide as one of the wors… Read More

Common Cause v. Rucho is the case that could end Partisan Gerrymandering. On Aug. 5th, my birthday, Common Cause filed a lawsuit in North Carolina where State Legislators created Partisan G… Read More

Outdated Design Your garage door takes up close to 40% of the front of your house. It’s usually the first thing people see when they pull up to your home. It’s the largest openi… Read More

Here at The Gig, it seems that we are enjoying a bit of Girl Power, but is is only by random chance that we’ve been focusing the Video Clip of The Week — a column which is 100%… Read More

Justin Bieber and his ex-girlfriend Selena Gomez spent previous weekend sharing insults. Everything began after the Canadian pop singer posted a set of images of him and his new girlfriend… Read More

A John Doe was caught voting multiple times and in more then one state. Wisconsin Act 23 was signed by Gov. Walker on May 25, 2011. The photo ID provisions went into effect for the Februar… Read More

Saint Monica is the patron saint of abuse victims. She suffered verbal abuse from her husband's violent temper for years. Such maltreatment is a consequence of our fallen humanity. Today, le… Read More

Death of Saint Monica, scene from Life of Saint Augustine,Ottaviano Nelli, 1420-1425.August 27th, is the Memorial of Saint Monica, (333-387) the mother of Saint Augustine. Augustin… Read More

One day or another, all managers will encounter a difficult employee they will have to deal with. The situation might announce itself as a nightmare for some who are already familiar with it… Read More

1.28am:School is pretty much the same, you know piles of endless dishes-like homework and aissngments. And the feeling of lacking away just because one fell asleep in class. That's me. I can… Read More

So, Donald Trump and Election Night 2016. It’s taken me a couple of days to figure out what I want and need to write about Election Night 2016 and Donald Trump’s win. I was on th… Read More

With the election of Donald Trump many of the standard political categories and definitions no longer apply. Is Trump a conservative, a populist, a neo-con, a moderate, a nationalist? How do… Read More

I had hoped to find time to do a new Christmas post for this year…for a variety of reasons, I didn’t. In the past I’ve reblogged my 2014 post, “When Christmas Doesn… Read More

Showing anger with clenched teethThe Casting Director And An Actor's Dilemma In AuditionsEveryone on this earth is a deviate and has a distinct  personality. An actor has to play a char… Read More

Thync helps control stress using the body’s chemical make-up and nervous system. Background and need for Thync At least one in every four people suffers from stress in various stages a… Read More

Originally developed by the United States Government in 1973, the Global Positioning System(GPS), or Navstar, was made to help the military, civil and commercial users to provide exact locat… Read More

Forget about everything they told you: the world is the cheapest place you ever imagined! From one traveler at heart to another one, next, ser… Read More

First of all, can we just appreciate my cat’s bum in the photo above (and I don’t even smoke so erm, who got the raw deal there?). Secondly, no you’re not imagining things… Read More

During the raucous rallies that helped propel Donald Trump to the White House, the nation of Mexico was one of his favorite rhetorical punching bags, said León Krauze in WashingtonPos… Read More

Owning a car comes with a lot of responsibility. Among those, and often overlooked, is the constant condition of your tires. Car tires are not… Read More

KitchenAid K45SS Classic Stand Dough Mixer can fit your budget without costing you a lot of bills. The KitchenAid K45SS Classic Stand Mixer is a single beater style stand dough mixer with 25… Read More

When it comes to building your dream ride, appearance is everything. You want it to look its best, and to have its own special appeal that nobody else has. Longevity and toughness, too, are… Read More

Content Note: Ableism, Restraint, Abuse, Neglect, PWD Death Image Description: Small, lit, white candle held in someone’s cupped hands lights the darkness. *** When I was in school to… Read More

Robert John Downey Jr. is an American actor. His career has included critical and popular success in his youth, followed by a period of substance abuse and legal troubles, and a resurgence o… Read More

KitchenAid K45SS Classic Stand Dough Mixer can fit your budget without costing you a lot of bills. The KitchenAid K45SS Classic Stand Mixer is a single beater style stand dough mixer with 25… Read More