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Showing posts with label presidential race. Show all posts
Showing posts with label presidential race. Show all posts

Monday, November 7, 2016

Nightmare on Election Street


Miracle Girl: Nightmare on Election Street



The sleep of reason produces monsters. Let's hope election night doesn't bring another nightmare. #PatheosVotes2016
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Thursday, November 3, 2016

Comey Over to My Election


Miracle Girl: Comey Over to My Election

Comey has succumbed to the blindness of those who consider themselves to be upright and morally superior. Sound familiar? Though Comey's unconscious bias may well be at work, I think the real culprit is a syndrome that will be all too familiar to atheists.
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Monday, October 31, 2016

All Hallow’s Eve of the Election




Every election, people say this is the most important election in our lifetime. This time, it’s really true...and you're right to be afraid. The real night of horrors could be November 8.
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Friday, October 28, 2016

Halloween Election Scarefest


Miracle Girl: Halloween Election Scarefest

Don't look now! Around every corner is a new reason to quake. Halloween is scary enough without the election looming. It's enough to haunt any voter's nightmares.

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Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Good Brain/Bad Brain: Of Two Political Minds







I know I shouldn't be hoping for Republicans to stay home on November 8. But I still am. Bad brain. Bad!
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Friday, October 21, 2016

Top 5 Trumpster Fire Debate Moments


Miracle Girl: Top 5 Trumpster Fire Debate Moments

The top five worst Trump debate moments. The final debate was a Trumpster fire that will consume the Republican Party.
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Monday, October 3, 2016

5 Things You Didn’t Want to Think About Thanks to Donald Trump



Miracle Girl: 5 Things You Didn’t Want to Think About Thanks to Donald Trump



I'd be happy if the word trump were banished from the English language after November 8. But until then, here are f
ive categories of thoughts we we would like to unthink courtesy of The Donald.


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Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Applauding the Punditocracy Pile-On



Miracle Girl: Applauding the Punditocracy Pile-On
I was right that the pundits would pile on after the debate. But I was wrong about which candidate would be under the stack.

I say, pile on to your hearts content. I’ll bring the popcorn.
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Coma Girl

Not a miracle recovery, but a miracle of modern medicine

In 2013 I fell into a six-week coma and nearly died after I contracted legionella. The Legionnaire's disease was in turn triggered by immunosuppression caused by the prednisone I was taking for my rare autoimmune disease, dermatomyositis.

I suffered a series of strokes on both sides of my brain when the sepsis caused my blood pressure to plummet. I fell into a deep coma. My kidneys and lungs began to fail, as my body was began dying one organ at a time. My doctors told my loved ones to give up hope for my full recovery. They expected me to die, and even if I somehow lived, I would remain a vegetable or at best left so hopelessly brain-damaged that I would never be same. But unbeknownst to them, while they were shining lights in my eyes and shaking their heads, I was telling them in my coma-dream--my secular version of a near-death experience--to leave me alone because I was trying to get back to sleep. I was experiencing what is known as covert cognition, the subject of my Skeptical Inquirer article "Covert Cognition: My So-Called Near-Death Experience," which appeared in their July/August issue.

But it wasn't a miracle--despite what so many continue to believe--that I recovered so fully. I owe my life not to God, but the miracles of modern medicine, as well as the nature of the watershed-area brain damage I suffered, as I detailed in my article and in this blog.