Data Makes the Crazy Better
The world can seem bad, especially if you have a mental illness. Sometimes it's best to seek out the hard data to get a better feel for how things actually are.
View ArticleDialectic Materialism and Family Growth
Dialectic Materialism, as defined by the Free Dictionary: "The Marxian interpretation of reality that views matter as the sole subject of change and all change as the product of a constant conflict...
View ArticleAndrew & Spencer: A Dialogue on Mental Illness
A conversation between my friend Andrew and I on our shared experiences with mental illness.
View ArticleAndrew and Spencer: A Dialogue on Mental Illness, part 2
The second part of a conversation about mental illness.
View ArticleI've Been a Bad Atheist
I have an evangelical urge. It's part of who I am. Because I like to spread whatever good news I feel I've come into possession of, I often find myself in conversations with people who think...
View ArticleChoose Your Drugs Wisely!
We're all getting fucked up in one way or the other. Some of us drink, some of us smoke, some of us shoot and snort. Some of us turn to religion. Some of us get our opiates in the political realm....
View ArticleWhy Live?
As Creed asked whenever Creed was asking things, 'What's this life for?', and who wants to be in a world where there is Creed?Attempting to comfort a suffering friend recently, I found myself jumping...
View ArticleWhere Do the Homeless Come From?
"Capitalism will behave antisocially if it is profitable for it to do so, and that can now mean human devastation on an unimaginable scale. What used to be apocalyptic fantasy is today no more than...
View ArticleOther Types of Hunger
On reading, creativity, fear of conversion, and other-people's-thoughts
View ArticleExcerpt From a Mind on the Mend
If I had cancer, I would understand my relationship to that cancer with my brain. If I had diabetes, I would understand my relationship to it with my brain. There is something wrong with my brain. How...
View ArticleI know why people go off their meds
Luckily--or unluckily if you ask my wife--my medication has had no sexual side effects. It has however slowed down my creative process. Being unable to write feels a lot like being backed up sexually,...
View ArticleConcerning Woody Allen
Disclaimer up front: I am an enormous Woody Allen fan. If you would like a quick and easy reason to discount my opinion on this subject, there it is. I don't want Woody to be a pedophile.Also, I don't...
View ArticleEvangelical Atheism: Good or Bad?
I had a friend confess to me yesterday that he has been trying to believe in God lately.I am an atheist who is a former evangelical Christian, and that evangelical impulse has never really left me. If...
View ArticleIf You Love God, Let Him Go
The best way to have a relationship with God is to stop believing in him.
View ArticlePeople Shouldn't Have To Work To Live
co written by David TroxellThe other day I tuned into Rush Limbaugh's show and heard him opining--paraphrase--'the liberal attempt to make work unnecessary for the lower classes'. This complaint...
View ArticleSecularists of Ohio Unite!
The only thing secularists in Ohio have to lose is their isolation...I'm writing this from the particularly conservative/christian suburbs that surround Cincinnati. It can be a lonely place for someone...
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