tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36810095462661218752024-03-18T02:48:17.965-07:00Coma Chameleon: My Recovery ChroniclesMy "miraculous" recovery from a 6-week coma through a skeptical and humanist lens, written by a writer published by Skeptical Inquirer and Free Inquiry.
When I awoke, I could barely raise my head, and it has been a hard road back. I also aim to educate the public about covert cognition. Too many people who are still conscious are being dismissed as hopeless vegetables, as I was. As many as one in five people with consciousness disorders have covert cognition. For them, there is still hope.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05330189947472994951noreply@blogger.comBlogger372125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3681009546266121875.post-24003349562870883742018-02-26T20:04:00.000-08:002018-02-26T20:05:16.815-08:00Atheists Are Putzes Too: Lawrence Krauss's Teachable Moment<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">Miracle Girl</span>: <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/miraclegirl/2018/02/atheists-putzes-too-lawrence-krauss-teachable-moment/" target="_blank">Atheists Are Putzes Too: Lawrence Krauss's Teachable Moment</a><br />
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<em><strong>I should know.</strong></em></div>
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The hardest illusions to leave behind are those held about your own beliefs. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/metoo?source=feed_text" rel="nofollow noopener" style="background-color: transparent; color: #f96854; cursor: pointer; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">#MeToo</a> is for atheists, too. And so is white nationalism. </div>
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">I also have a Tumblr for my rehab walk photos: http://comachameleon2013.tumblr.com/</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05330189947472994951noreply@blogger.com42tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3681009546266121875.post-4817722797431410812018-02-23T21:03:00.000-08:002018-02-23T21:03:12.028-08:00Gun Control: The Times are A-Changin' as the Young Say Never Again<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">Miracle Girl</span>: <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/miraclegirl/2018/02/gun-control-times-a-changin-never-again/" target="_blank">Gun Control: The Times are A-Changin' as the Young Say Never Again</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #052d49; font-family: America, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; white-space: pre-line;">The times they are a-changin' for gun control, as high schoolers across the land take to the streets. Now it's the NRA and their GOP lackies ducking for cover.</span><br />
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They that they are running for their lives.</div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">I also have a Tumblr for my rehab walk photos: http://comachameleon2013.tumblr.com/</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05330189947472994951noreply@blogger.com184tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3681009546266121875.post-63641144380916350192018-02-20T21:21:00.000-08:002018-02-20T21:52:26.316-08:00America Wins the Diversity Olympics: The Future of the US is Bronzed<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Miracle Girl: <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/miraclegirl/2018/02/america-diversity-olympics-future-us-bronzed/" target="_blank">America Wins the Diversity Olympics: The Future of the US is Bronzed</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1rem; white-space: pre-line;">Our Olympic Asian-American ladies figure skaters are judged foreigners while competing for the country in which they were born. Meanwhile, the world moves past the culture wars Trump continues to stoke and the press </span><a href="http://www.vulture.com/2018/02/olympics-adam-rippon-knows-hes-americas-sweetheart-now.html" rel="nofollow noopener" style="font-size: 1rem; text-decoration-line: none; white-space: pre-line;" target="_blank">clamors to report every quip</a><span style="font-size: 1rem; white-space: pre-line;"> by a gay skater, revelling in his outré outness. </span><div class="blogger-post-footer">I also have a Tumblr for my rehab walk photos: http://comachameleon2013.tumblr.com/</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05330189947472994951noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3681009546266121875.post-64554372639422224622018-02-16T16:49:00.000-08:002018-02-16T16:49:52.960-08:00After Darwin Day: Vestiges of the Unnatural History of Creationists<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">Miracle Girl</span>: <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/miraclegirl/2018/02/darwin-day-vestiges-creationists/" target="_blank">After Darwin Day: Vestiges of the Unnatural History of Creationists</a><br />
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Creationists accept as fact a book in which God orders the slaughter of unicorns, but spares not a word for dinosaurs. They thrive in the darkness of ignorance, blinded to insight.</div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">I also have a Tumblr for my rehab walk photos: http://comachameleon2013.tumblr.com/</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05330189947472994951noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3681009546266121875.post-48043432358377574202018-02-12T14:45:00.000-08:002018-02-12T14:45:20.971-08:00Darwin Day: 4 Snapshots from the Evolution of Evolution<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">Miracle Girl</span>: <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/miraclegirl/2018/02/darwin-day-4-snapshots-evolution/" target="_blank">Darwin Day: 4 Snapshots from the Evolution of Evolution</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #052d49; font-family: America, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; white-space: pre-line;">Happy Birthday, Charles Darwin!</span><br />
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Take a Darwin Day trip through the evolution of evolutionary thought, as you tour four key moments on the journey to a biological Theory of Everything.</div>
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Many who paved the way of evolutionary thought clung to the holy writ their theories undermined. <i>Not so, Charles Darwin. </i></div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">I also have a Tumblr for my rehab walk photos: http://comachameleon2013.tumblr.com/</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05330189947472994951noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3681009546266121875.post-49631773590132190152018-02-09T17:11:00.000-08:002018-02-09T17:11:09.198-08:00Evolution Caught in the Act: A Darwin Day Sampler Pack<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">Miracle Girl</span>: <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/miraclegirl/2018/02/evolution-caught-act-darwin-day-sampler/" target="_blank">Evolution Caught in the Act: A Darwin Day Sampler Pack</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1rem; white-space: pre-line;">Just in time for Darwin Day, new research has revealed evolution -- and even speciation -- in real time. And in one case an instant.</span><br />
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Wanna see Ken Ham's head explode?</div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">I also have a Tumblr for my rehab walk photos: http://comachameleon2013.tumblr.com/</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05330189947472994951noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3681009546266121875.post-53145242758392685672018-02-07T16:36:00.000-08:002018-02-07T16:36:15.224-08:00Nunes Memo Memes: From Watergate to Nunes Nonsense<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">Miracle Girl</span>: <a href="http://if%20history%20repeats%20as%20farce%2C%20trump%20and%20his%20gop%20stooges%20have%20turned%20the%20nunes%20memo%20into%20a%20slapstick%20routine.%20%20this%20%22nunesense%22%20has%20left%20us%20laughing%20through%20our%20fears./" target="_blank">Nunes Memo Memes: From Watergate to Nunes Nonsense</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: 1rem; white-space: pre-line;">If history repeats as farce, Trump and his GOP stooges have turned the Nunes memo into a slapstick routine. </span><br />
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This "Nunesense" has left us laughing through our fears.</div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">I also have a Tumblr for my rehab walk photos: http://comachameleon2013.tumblr.com/</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05330189947472994951noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3681009546266121875.post-75508098226188280692018-02-02T16:58:00.000-08:002018-02-02T16:58:42.476-08:00Reddit Rants and Rages: Oh, DO Tell Me About My Life<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">Miracle Girl</span>: <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/miraclegirl/2018/02/reddit-rants-tell-me-my-life/" target="_blank">Reddit Rants and Rages: Oh, DO Tell Me About My Life</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #052d49; font-family: America, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; white-space: pre-line;">A recent tribalistic, Reddit rake across the coals reminded me why I'm glad I'm part of the Patheos family instead.</span><br />
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On what planet is it okay to tell my mom that she overeats -- especially when I stated that she doesn't?</div>
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Oh, <em>Planet Reddit.</em></div>
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You do realize that you're talking to actual people, right? </div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">I also have a Tumblr for my rehab walk photos: http://comachameleon2013.tumblr.com/</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05330189947472994951noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3681009546266121875.post-51414151488418279182018-01-30T21:48:00.000-08:002018-01-30T21:48:54.906-08:00SOTU Satire: The State of the Union is…Stupefied<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">Miracle Girl</span>: <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/miraclegirl/2018/01/sotu-satire-the-state-of-the-uni" target="_blank">SOTU Satire: The State of the Union is…Stupefied</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #052d49; font-family: America, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; white-space: pre-line;">You sat through the words written by Stephen Miller for President Trump's first State of the Union address. But listen to the satirical SOTU speech of Miller's dreams. </span><br />
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Was your ticket to Davos lost in the mail? Here's a peek into Trump's thought bubble as he delivered his "look at me, I'm <em>so </em>presidential speech" to the global elites who once shunned him. </div>
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Where satire meets sorrow...</div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">I also have a Tumblr for my rehab walk photos: http://comachameleon2013.tumblr.com/</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05330189947472994951noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3681009546266121875.post-4116497323914049652018-01-26T17:34:00.000-08:002018-01-26T17:34:11.456-08:00I was a Jewish Hitler in the Fifth Grade<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">Miracle Girl</span>: <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/miraclegirl/2018/01/jewish-hitler-fifth-grade/" target="_blank">I was a Jewish Hitler in the Fifth Grade</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #052d49; font-family: America, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; white-space: pre-line;">If there were a hell, I would surely burn in it. In my ignorance, this girl of Jewish heritage stood in front of class and pretended I was Adolf Hitler.</span><br />
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Secular parents, look to my story and beware.</div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">I also have a Tumblr for my rehab walk photos: http://comachameleon2013.tumblr.com/</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05330189947472994951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3681009546266121875.post-52334578957014684202018-01-24T21:16:00.001-08:002018-01-24T21:16:44.324-08:00Trump's First Year Down, Three More to Go (Better Stock Up on Antacids)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Miracle Girl: <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/miraclegirl/2018/01/trumps-first-year-better-stock-antacids/" target="_blank">Trump's First Year Down, Three More to Go (Better Stock Up on Antacids)</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #052d49; font-family: America, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; white-space: pre-line;">Has it only been a year since Trump's inauguration? It's felt like a decade in Trump time.</span><br />
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While America survived Trump's first year in office (barely), there aren't enough antacids in the world to cope with the backwash of bile to come.</div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">I also have a Tumblr for my rehab walk photos: http://comachameleon2013.tumblr.com/</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05330189947472994951noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3681009546266121875.post-80704820513745753322018-01-19T22:35:00.000-08:002018-01-19T22:35:37.159-08:00Open Letter to Fellow Progressives: Enough Already with the Purity Politics<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">Miracle Girl</span>: <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/miraclegirl/2018/01/open-letter-fellow-progressives-enough-purity-politics/" target="_blank">Open Letter to Fellow Progressives: Enough Already with the Purity Politics</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #052d49; font-family: America, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; white-space: pre-line;">A politician walks away from politics to stand on principle. Now that's a movie Frank Capra could've written.</span><br />
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Mr. Flake goes from Washington for all the right, principled reasons. Can't we progressives at least agree on that?</div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">I also have a Tumblr for my rehab walk photos: http://comachameleon2013.tumblr.com/</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05330189947472994951noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3681009546266121875.post-17452953557102398502018-01-17T21:15:00.000-08:002018-01-17T21:15:28.822-08:00Jeff Flake: A Wingnut Fortified with High Moral Fiber<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">Miracle Girl</span>: <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/miraclegirl/2018/01/jeff-flake-wingnut-fortified-high-moral-fiber/" target="_blank">Jeff Flake: A Wingnut Fortified with High Moral Fiber</a><br />
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<span data-offset-key="11te3-0-0">Repeat after me, fellow progressives: The enemy of my enemy is my friend.</span></div>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">I also have a Tumblr for my rehab walk photos: http://comachameleon2013.tumblr.com/</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05330189947472994951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3681009546266121875.post-18584533184782930302018-01-12T17:05:00.000-08:002018-01-12T17:05:11.329-08:00The Big Sick: A Must-See for Secularists and the Formerly Sick Alike<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">Miracle Girl</span>: <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/miraclegirl/2018/01/the-big-sick-must-see-secularists-formerly-sick-alike/" target="_blank">The Big Sick: A Must-See for Secularists and the Formerly Sick Alike</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #052d49; font-family: America, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; white-space: pre-line;">There's a reason why "The Big Sick" won the Critics' Choice Award for Best Comedy. It gets my Coma Choice Award, too. </span><br />
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It doesn't take a VERY big sick to love the hilarious and deep comedy, "The Big Sick." But it doesn't hurt, either.</div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">I also have a Tumblr for my rehab walk photos: http://comachameleon2013.tumblr.com/</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05330189947472994951noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3681009546266121875.post-18962483835965823282018-01-09T21:02:00.000-08:002018-01-09T21:02:50.172-08:00Music Therapy: Revealing Awareness and Awakening It in Doctors Too<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">Miracle Girl</span>: <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/miraclegirl/2018/01/music-therapy-revealing-awareness-awakening-doctors/" target="_blank">Music Therapy: Revealing Awareness and Awakening It in Doctors Too</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #052d49; font-family: America, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; white-space: pre-line;">Music therapy reveals misdiagnosed 'vegetative' patients, reaching the supposedly unreachable. And it could stimulate improved awareness. </span><br />
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But what can raise the consciousness of their blindfolded doctors? Can it teach a lesson to those that wrote them off as hopeless?</div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">I also have a Tumblr for my rehab walk photos: http://comachameleon2013.tumblr.com/</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05330189947472994951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3681009546266121875.post-63668206207363974192018-01-05T20:53:00.000-08:002018-01-05T21:02:50.989-08:00My Top Ten Posts of 2017: Good Posts for a Bad Year<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: yellow; color: #052d49; font-family: "america" , sans-serif; font-size: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Miracle Girl</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #052d49; font-family: "america" , sans-serif; font-size: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;">: </span><span style="color: #052d49; font-family: "america" , sans-serif;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/miraclegirl/2018/01/top-ten-posts-2017-good-posts-bad-year/" target="_blank">My Top Ten Posts of 2017: Good Posts for a Bad Year</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #052d49; font-family: "america" , sans-serif; font-size: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Goodbye and good riddance to 2017. It was a difficult decade. At least, that's how long it felt like in Trump years.</span><br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">I also have a Tumblr for my rehab walk photos: http://comachameleon2013.tumblr.com/</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05330189947472994951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3681009546266121875.post-77390451297285468012018-01-03T21:13:00.000-08:002018-01-03T21:13:41.690-08:00Unpresidential Parallel Universe: Would I Be as Hypocritical as the GOP?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">Miracle Girl</span>: <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/miraclegirl/2018/01/unpresidential-parallel-universe-hypocritical-gop/" target="_blank">Unpresidential Parallel Universe: Would I Be as Hypocritical as the GOP?</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #052d49; font-family: America, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; white-space: pre-line;">When politics runs off the rails, it shouldn't matter if the blame falls on the right or the left. An unpresidential president represents us all.</span><br />
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Presidents are rubber and Americans are glue. Whatever they say sticks to YOU.</div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">I also have a Tumblr for my rehab walk photos: http://comachameleon2013.tumblr.com/</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05330189947472994951noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3681009546266121875.post-15756869685625871272017-12-29T14:22:00.000-08:002017-12-29T14:22:32.347-08:00Sesame Street: Can Its Sunny Way Sweep Our Dark Clouds Away?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">Miracle Girl</span>: <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/miraclegirl/2017/12/sesame-street-sunny-way-sweep-dark-clouds-away/" target="_blank">Sesame Street: Can Its Sunny Way Sweep Our Dark Clouds Away?</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #052d49; font-family: America, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; white-space: pre-line;">In the age of Trump and Charlottesville, can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street's multicultural, humanistic values? </span><br />
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One idealistic young person at a time.</div>
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Everything will be A-okay...if we fight for Sesame Street's empathetic values. A Cookie-Monster-blue wave is on its way.</div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">I also have a Tumblr for my rehab walk photos: http://comachameleon2013.tumblr.com/</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05330189947472994951noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3681009546266121875.post-42394316635038497442017-12-22T15:06:00.002-08:002017-12-24T11:53:44.027-08:00Myth-Taken by Santa<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">Miracle Girl</span>: <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/miraclegirl/2017/12/myth-taken-santa-3/#" target="_blank">Myth-Taken by Santa</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #052d49; font-family: "america" , sans-serif; font-size: 20px; white-space: pre-line;">Children often come back from preschool with contagious diseases. I brought back a belief in Santa Claus.</span><br />
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It didn't take long, though, before the budding skeptic in me cottoned onto the deception....</div>
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'Santa is a fake! And all those Santas, in all those malls, they’re all fake too!'</blockquote>
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<em>Does the Santa myth remind you of something else?</em></div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">I also have a Tumblr for my rehab walk photos: http://comachameleon2013.tumblr.com/</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05330189947472994951noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3681009546266121875.post-27762410690338264082017-12-21T20:11:00.000-08:002017-12-21T20:11:28.959-08:00Atheist Joy for the Holidays, Not Seeing God for eReaders<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">Miracle Girl</span>: <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/miraclegirl/2017/12/atheist-joy-holidays-not-seeing-god-ereaders/" target="_blank">Atheist Joy for the Holidays, Not Seeing God for eReaders</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #052d49; font-family: America, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Not Seeing God: Atheism in the 21st Century is now available in ebook format. It's the perfect gift for atheists and procrastinators alike.</span><br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">I also have a Tumblr for my rehab walk photos: http://comachameleon2013.tumblr.com/</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05330189947472994951noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3681009546266121875.post-18271250795910481212017-12-20T22:33:00.000-08:002017-12-20T22:33:12.059-08:00Trump: Transgender Transcender to Rights Recinder<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">Miracle Girl</span>: <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/miraclegirl/2017/12/trump-transgender-transcender-rights-recinder/" target="_blank">Trump: Transgender Transcender to Rights Recinder</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #052d49; font-family: America, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; white-space: pre-line;">Trump forces the military to march in the evangelical pander parade. His closeted, gay-persecuting mentor would be proud. </span><br />
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Like Roy Cohn, President Trump doesn't mind trampling on the gay and transgender communities. LGBT tolerance wouldn't play to his evangelical base.</div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">I also have a Tumblr for my rehab walk photos: http://comachameleon2013.tumblr.com/</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05330189947472994951noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3681009546266121875.post-85900609413131285802017-12-15T21:46:00.003-08:002017-12-15T21:46:54.577-08:00California Wildfires: Global Warming Early Warning<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">Miracle Girl</span>: <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/miraclegirl/2017/12/california-wildfires-global-warming-warning/" target="_blank">California Wildfires: Global Warming Early Warning</a><br />
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Global Warming is lighting the fuse of the devastating California fires. Still, deniers continue to fiddle while the Golden State burns.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 1rem;">Thousands won't have a home for the holidays due to the California wildfires...and Climate Change. </span><span style="font-size: 1rem;">This is one war on Christmas President Trump refuses to fight.</span></div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">I also have a Tumblr for my rehab walk photos: http://comachameleon2013.tumblr.com/</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05330189947472994951noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3681009546266121875.post-36748133131605365472017-12-12T17:23:00.000-08:002017-12-12T17:23:59.186-08:00Alabama and Doug Jones: Segregation Then, Elevation Tomorrow?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">Miracle Girl</span>: <a href="https://www.blogger.com/Alabama%20and%20Doug%20Jones:%20Segregation%20Then,%20Elevation%20Tomorrow?" target="_blank">Alabama and Doug Jones: Segregation Then, Elevation Tomorrow?</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #052d49; font-family: America, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; white-space: pre-line;">Will the (old) South rise again? Or will it finally be laid in the same mouldering grave as segregation? </span><br />
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And will the crimson tide of Alabama voters shift toward the future or turn back to yesterday? We will know presently.</div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">I also have a Tumblr for my rehab walk photos: http://comachameleon2013.tumblr.com/</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05330189947472994951noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3681009546266121875.post-3301357215441363802017-12-08T18:22:00.001-08:002017-12-08T18:22:34.407-08:00GOP and Religious Right: Blowing Smoke While My Head Reels<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">Miracle Girl</span>: <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/miraclegirl/2017/12/gop-religious-right-blowing-smoke-head-reels/" target="_blank">GOP and Religious Right: Blowing Smoke While My Head Reels</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #052d49; font-family: America, sans-serif; font-size: 20px; white-space: pre-line;">My head reels as evangelicals defend a child molester with the bible, while the hypocrisy of the GOP takes my breath away.</span><br />
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If this is the new reality, can I please go back in my coma-dream now? </div>
<div class="blogger-post-footer">I also have a Tumblr for my rehab walk photos: http://comachameleon2013.tumblr.com/</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05330189947472994951noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3681009546266121875.post-26226573877301986492017-12-05T17:46:00.002-08:002017-12-05T17:46:42.974-08:00My Personal War on Christmas<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">Miracle Girl</span>: <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/miraclegirl/2017/12/personal-war-christmas-3/" target="_blank">My Personal War on Christmas</a><br />
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Christmas is a season of mawkishness and awkwardness for deconverts. I was simply confused. Here's an antidote for both...<br />
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“Run Donder, run Blitzen, run Prancer, it’s through,” cried Santa, but we were booking them too. </blockquote>
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No, that isn't Robert Mueller leading the investigation in this satiric sting of Santa Claus.<div class="blogger-post-footer">I also have a Tumblr for my rehab walk photos: http://comachameleon2013.tumblr.com/</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05330189947472994951noreply@blogger.com2