This semester I am being immersed in theory. It’s overwhelming, but I appreciate the new layers it’s likely going to bring to this project. In one class I’m reading feminist theory for the first time as well as post-modernism, post-structuralism, deconstructionism – and in the other I’m drowning in the political, sociological, political, anthropological theories [...]
I just saw a news story with some horrifying stats.
Teen suicide is through the roof! Yikes.
Some scary thoughts:
–60% increase in suicide in 45 years
–Suicide is in the top three leading causes of death for people ages 15-44
–In 2005, more than 32,000 people committed suicide in the U.S. (there are 1 million suicides a year globally)
Now [...]
http://www.vitabeat.com/death-of-38-venezuelan-indians-may-be-linked-to-rabies/v/8893
Well, while we are on the subject of rabies…
There is apparently an outbreak of rabies in Venezuela.
“Preliminary studies of the latest outbreak that killed at least 38 Warao Indians in northeastern Venezuela indicate that it may be a type of infectious rabies transmitted by bites from bats, according to indigenous leaders and researchers from the [...]
Here is a link to a blog post from an author who is incredibly religious. He also believes that there are evil spirits that enter us and cause us to do evil things, but those who have a strong will and pray can cast the demons out.
http://healtheland.wordpress.com/2007/04/09/demon-of-the-day-rage/
The particular “demon” he discusses in this entry is [...]
Dearest Devoted Readers (Rob, Pamela, and Mom–soon to be joined by others hopefully)–
Some old news for me to keep you occupied while I figure out my next topic. Wrote this early in the fall of 2007 as I was just getting started on my research and hadn’t even worked rage into my thesis completely yet. [...]
When I took a class called Milton last fall, I backed out of doing my term paper on what I really wanted–which would have been the language of Infection and Contagion in Paradise Lost (that work was the main focus of the class–we used other poetry and prose as supplementary material to aid in our [...]
I just finished reading a book called Rant by Chuck Palahniuk. I wish I had found this book a year ago while I was researching my thesis. I’m going to throw out a few quotes from the book and then respond probably in a bit of a haphazard way as I think of things.
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Phoebe Truffeau, P.h.D: ”Our [...]
Thank you to Reed whose blog at http://gaytheist.wordpress.com/ covered a story on a 14 year old boy murdering his 15 year old gay classmate.
Hate crimes against humans. This is where rage and people killing people comes in. Shouldn’t we all just be humans? But we’re not. Some are gay, some are white, some are black, [...]
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Rev. J. Reed Braden
