Every year in January we honor the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by recalling a handful of fanciful speeches that make us feel good. But the MLK who fearlessly opposed the Vietnam War, challenged America’s status quo, and declared poverty the greatest of society’s evils seems known to few. Expanding his activism from … Continue reading
It seems that whenever voices of influence in the media address America’s most urgent national emergencies, they fall all over themselves discussing symptoms instead of facing root causes. The American suicide epidemic has accelerated to the point that 123 Americans are killing themselves every day, but all we’re really hearing in the media about this … Continue reading
Suicide Is Very Contagious Like affects like. Monkey see, monkey do. A key predictor of suicide, is knowing a suicide. One person taking their own life is destructive for other people. It significantly increases the likelihood of copycat suicides among those who knew them and those who are like them, and can snowball into a … Continue reading
Over two decades have passed since Netscape went public in 1995, triggering the revolutionary ability to browse websites. It also spurred the multi-billion dollar investments by companies like Global Crossing in the creation of undersea and underground fiber-optic telecommunications cable networks, which in-turn drove down the cost of data transmission … Continue reading
Buddhist rock band darshan Pulse (dP) was born in the musically rich community of Missoula, Montana, in the heart of the Rocky Mountain Pacific Northwest. After publishing a concept album called Panopticon in the spring of 2010, dP worked on a second concept album: Olive Moksha (OM). This ambitious project was crafted with the intention of … Continue reading
Disney has given itself to the dark side. This sentiment doesn’t originate from another outraged fanboy irritated by nerdy expectations, but from an historical perspective that understands the profound inspirational power of art. It also stems from observing the lengths that America’s imperial bread-and-circus brigades have proved willing to direct our ever fleeting attention spans … Continue reading
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