A 12 year journey joyfully ended on 23 September 2008 - I received my PhD
Filed under: gratitude, health and wellness, literature, men's health, spirituality
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Back in 1996, I began my doctoral studies in Health and Human Services. Little did I know that about a year later, I would sustain a C5-6 injury in my spine, resulting in a herniated cervical disk. As if that weren’t enough, I developed fibromyalgia (yes, it is a real condition), and then developed a regional pain syndrome. It took me several years to recover and to learn to live with chronic pain. Thankfully, my physical health and fitness resurged - with a lot of determination, persistent effort, and endless gratitude to my loving and supportive family and friends. Were it not for JD, Dan, Sean, and Kathleen, as well as my mother, I doubt I would have returned to a stronger physical health baseline.
Project Censored’s Top 25 Censored Stories for 2009
Project Censored annually issues a top censored stories list. Despite the fundamental right to a free media that predominates in the West and the developed world, the American press is anything but free and is riddled with corporate ownership that sponsors and propagates sensationalism, exploitation, and information repression. If you don’t believe me, check out Fox News: it’s all fluff, biased, and blatantly extremist - and it shows.
Captain James Kirk and a Big Prop
Filed under: comedy and humor, science fiction and fantasy
Okay, tell me what you think this prop he’s holding looks like?
Yep, that’s what I thought, too! 
Highlights for Children the Evil Version
Filed under: art, comedy and humor, literature
Like many of you, I’ve enjoyed the Highlights magazines in countless waiting rooms pretty much all of my life. This creative person has created a parody that does a good job of using the graphical art style along with witty rewrites of the texts. Some of it is cynical and some of it gave me a chuckle; a great parody, all in all!
When Batman Was Gay
Filed under: art, friendship, gay culture, science fiction and fantasy
History of Batman and Robin and a clearly homoerotic relationship present throughout all of the pre-McCarthy Era publishings. Learn how the McCarthy hysteria investigations made Batman hetero.
A brief history of the famous Doctor Who original theme
Filed under: art, music, science fiction and fantasy, technology, video
I stumbled on Doctor Who in 1975, while I was a nursing student in Chicago. This series birthed a lifelong love of British comedy, science fiction, and fantasy.
In 1963, Ron Grainer of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, wrote the score for the theme that Delia Derbyshire realized, using truly avant-garde experimental methods and sounds to create the legendary Doctor Who theme. Check out the original, compelling theme music at the BBC website.
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