Category: Society
Why Your Brain Needs a Workout
Everyone knows that physical exercise can improve health and mood. However, it’s easy to forget that the brain is part of the body, and needs to be exercised just as much as the rest. You might think you can get…
1st Century Jesus, 21st Century America: Does the Following Story Sound Familiar?
In order to get perspective on the religious dilemmas of 21st America (and to some degree elsewhere), let’s rewind a couple of millennia to a period that in some ways, looks surprisingly (or unsurprisingly?) familiar. In the first century, an…
Paintings to Remember: A Narrative Nonfiction by Rafiq Ebrahim
ED: Welcome to our great new writer, Rafiq Ebrahim! From the composer Modest Mussorgsky’s ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’ to the Alexander Sokurov movie, ‘Russian Ark,’ galleries have been well recognised as assortments of ‘ikons’ that can all point beyond themselves…
Matter Over Mind: 9 Rules that MAY JUST Help Fix Your Microbiome!
‘Mind over matter,’ or so they say, but does the same apply in reverse? Well, some people believe a lot of mental and spiritual health problems have a physical basis, and are related to gut dysbiosis (poor balance of microbes…
The Fairest Proposition in 2020
A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible to get relief. – John Dos Passos
AS PROMISED! Jesus Has a Special Reunion Message for Republicans
Hi there it’s Jesus, and I have a special reunion message! The good news is, thanks to the Supreme Court, abortion in America is gonna end!
Forget Doctors. I’m Getting Tested at Home!
Forget doctors. I’m getting tested at home No one likes a trip to the doctor’s office. They are scary and weird and, worst of all, they smell like doctor’s offices. Luckily, there is now a way you can take the…
Is CBD Oil the New Cocaine?
CBD. Those three little letters that everyone is talking about today. Maybe you know all about this hipster wonder sauce. Maybe you have barely heard of it. Either way, what you are probably thinking is, “this stuff sounds wild! Is…
Xmas Horror! Three Wise Men from the East Shot at Eastern Border of Trump’s America (Parable)
We all love a cuddly, heart-warming Xmas story, but this time, we’re heading more into Grinchy territory. Not to be confused with Gingrinchy territory… It was a cold, cold winter’s evening, and three shivering silhouttes hurled themselves out of their…
BURN THE WITCH! Washington DC Pastor Arrested for ‘Insanity,’ Defrocked for ‘Heresy & Blasphemy’
An African-American pastor has been arrested and institutionalized for what Fox News has called an ‘utterly unhinged, dangerous, extremist, De Niroesque mafia rant’ outside the White House. According to sources, Catherine Ukunda Underhill spent ‘close to ten minutes’ spreading ‘divisive…