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ABC News Scientology Hoax Obscures Belgium Decision

Featured image from Wikinews. Viral ABC News story turns out to be a hoax as Belgium judge acquits the scandalous religion. Thousands if not millions of people today celebrated that Scientology had been dissolved as a tax-exempt religious corporation by the United States Supreme Court, as reported by ABC News. Only thing was that the story […]

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Horizon at End Times

Robert McChesney and John Nichols

Horizon at End Times Episode 36 Join the authors of People Get Ready: The Fight Against a Jobless Economy and a Citizenless Democracy, Robert W. McChesney and John Nichols. We get to talk about the stuff that I’m always thinking about which is, what is going on, how we got here, and whats coming next? In […]

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Theatre

Smart F#*king Play

Stupid Fucking Bird implants itself behind laughs in new existential play. Only when I was home from the theatre and laying may head onto the pillow, lights off, quiet, and all alone, did I realize how powerful this play was. Playwright Aaron Posner has a reputation for careful, methodical adaptation of classic theatre works, but […]

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Movies

A Modern Myth and the Man Who Made Her

Finding Vivian Mayer Maier It was several years ago now that the street photography of Vivian Maier swept social media users into great curiosity. Her secret cache concentrating over 100 thousand pictures, from the 50’s through the 80’s, had been uncovered by an equally obscure person, John Maloof. He built a website under the posthumous […]

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America Opinion

A Step After Bernie

Super Tuesday is meaningless if we can’t take one step forward. I recently unsubscribed from the Bernie Sanders email list. The incessant need for contributions was annoying. I realize all campaigns are structured like that, and it was his snubbing of the Super PAC that first impressed me, so raising $75M at an average of $27 […]