Depressed Goat Mr. G Won’t Eat Until He’s Reunited With His Donkey Best Friend Jellybean (VIDEO)
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Frank Schaeffer: Why Jesus Would Have Hated Most Modern Day Religion
Jesus certainly was not a “Bible believer,” as we use that term in the post Billy Graham era of American fundamentalist religiosity that’s used as a trade-marked product to sell religion. Jesus didn’t take the Jewish scriptures at face value. In fundamentalist terms, Jesus was a rule-breaking relativist who wasn’t even “saved,” according to evangelical …
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Hero Cat’s Mom: She Used to Guard Our Son in His Crib
Erika Triantafilo says that while Tara the hero cat had never been quite so heroic before this week – famously body slamming a neighbor’s dog who viciously attacked her 4-year-old son Jeremy – she was not completely surprised by Tara’s protective actions. “Tara has known Jeremy since before he was born,” Triantafilo says. “She used …
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Learning is about rethinking our views, which is incompatible with censorship
Brittney Cooper writes: [T]he growing national conversation, buttressed by demands from students, that college professors place trigger warnings on their syllabi to alert students to uncomfortable and traumatic material gives me great concern. While I care about my own academic freedom and the ways that trigger warnings impede my ability to teach course materials in …
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Raccoons Are Awesome: Compilation
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Liberal arts and the humanities aren’t just for the elite
We don’t intellectually embrace a society where the privileged few get to enjoy the advantages of leisure and wealth while the masses toil on their behalf. Yet that’s what a sell-out of the liberal arts entails. For the most part, the wealthy in this country continue to pay increasingly exorbitant tuition to private prep schools, …
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