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Disney World as a Right of Passage: Raising Better Children While Hating Everyone in Line Around You

Posted by Joshua Bradley Minton in January 2nd, 2009  
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Legend has it that Charles Bukowski hated Mickey Mouse more than anything and thought it was blasphemy of the highest order that somehow a soulless celluloid corporate intruder started passing itself off as the source and effect of creativity and dreams. Maybe he thought children finally bought off on the finger instead of the moon [...]

Understanding Abney’s Effect in the Creation of Fiction

Posted by Joshua Bradley Minton in December 26th, 2008  
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The [psychological and biological] phenomenon whereby when a large area is suddenly illuminated, the light seems to appear first in the center of the patch (rather than appearing all at once) and then spreads outwards towards the edges. When the light is extinguished, the edges disappear first and the center last.
–Dictionary of Theories page 2–
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We Ain’t Dead Yet Muddafuggas (Gettin’ Yo Mind Straight in Zero Eight)

Posted by Josh in October 19th, 2008  
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I want to improve the execution of putting small things back into their place around me.  I have no patience for moving dishes to put away pans.  I detest the minutia of having to walk downstairs to put something back where it is supposed to go.  I’m pretty stinkin’ lazy when it comes to maintaining [...]

The Last Two Cold Beers on Earth: Responding to the Great Credit Repair Bill of 2008

Posted by Josh in October 5th, 2008  
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It was a gray and wavy day when the U.S. economy finally fell apart–like cellophane placed unskilled over a pencil eraser.  It was October 3rd, 2012–almost four years from the day that the Great Economic Credit Reform of 2008 was passed.
Columbus, Ohio has always been known for its bars and restaurants and today was no [...]

The Death of the Will to Power and the Next Great Awakening

Posted by Josh in July 11th, 2008  
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In 1882, Friedrich Nietzsche wrote a paragraph and murdered religion.  Sure, it was a slow death but a death it was.  He wrote:
God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet [...]

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