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ECSTASY MAY SOON BE LEGAL AS A PSYCHIATRIC TREATMENT
Inasmuch as psychotherapists as diverse as Humphrey Osmond and R.D. Laing have long promoted psychedelics for their therapeutic potential, an offering from Vice News about the coming Stage Three Clinical Trials to gauge the potential benefits or risks of permitting mental health practitioners to prescribe MDMA, or ecstasy, for those who are suffering from what we loosely call Post-Traumatic-Stress-
This Day in History
Today in Panama is Teacher’s Day and in Costa Rica Military Abolition Day, and people everywhere else have the opportunity to recollect the ravages of the HIV virus as part of World AIDS Day; during the tumultuous post Roman years in Europe, twelve hundred sixteen years back, Charlemagne’s position as a judge of Pope Leo suggested an advancing state of secular political leadership; in the Iberian Peninsula eight centuries and four decades subsequently, in 1640, the Iberian Union dissolved, terminating the joint rule of Portugal and Spain and the Philippine Dynasty; MORE HERE
A Thought for the Day
What shall we say at the end of the day to guide us along a halcyon way?
Some believe that such a reprieve is more than we shall ever receive;
Still, at the heart of where we start when we search for such a typecast part
Remain amendments to sacred commandments that merely ask our attention:
To wit,
1. The Golden Rule Reigns Supreme.
2. All Children Receive Priority.
3. All Who Work Are Welcome.
4. All Who Work Are Equal.
5. All Who Work Have Responsibilities & Rights.
6. All Who Work Receive Benefits & Provide Support for Others.
7. All Who Work Own Everything That Labor Transforms.
8. All Who Work Are Family.
9. All Beliefs, Congruent with the Golden Rule, Are Welcome.
10. All Other Matters Are Negotiable.
We’d hardly need a gentler creed to assist us as we try not to bleed
Away all the joy that comes, bold or coy, if only we’ll make appropriate noise.
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A Male Feminist’s Trump Critique
A Truth Dig opinion piece by a valiant professor singled out by a conservative fascist warning list, a list that any thinking writer, communicator, teacher, could only be proud to be listed on: “That quote is supposedly “evidence” for why I am one of those college professors who, according to the watchlist’s mission statement, “discriminate against conservative students, promote anti-American values and advance leftist propaganda in the classroom.” …
This rather thin accusation appears to flow from my published work instead of an evaluation of my teaching, which confuses a teacher’s role in public with the classroom. So, I’ll help out the watchlist and describe how I address these issues at the University of Texas at Austin, where I’m finishing my 25th year of teaching. Readers can judge the threat level for themselves.”
A thoughtful piece from Process History that instructs and contextualizes the challenges and rewards of trying to, in one’s writing, predict history’s unfolding: “There are other sources that can help us fill the void left by archival absences: more quickly available records of congressional hearings and court cases, oral histories and press interviews with key participants, election results, polling data, the deep dives of investigative journalists and studies by scholars in fields more attuned to the present, including sociology and political science. While some historians are skilled at using such tools of social science, for many it can prove to be unfamiliar territory. We need to tread carefully.”
A Naked Capitalism look at the economics of ride shares: “As transportation industry expert Hubert Horan will demonstrate in his four-part series, Uber has greatly oversold its case. There are no grounds for believing that Uber will ever be profitable, let alone justify its lofty valuation, absent perhaps the widespread implementation of driverless cars. Lambert has started digging into that issue, and his posts on that topic have consistently found that the technology would be vastly more difficult to develop and implement that its boosters acknowledge, would require substantial upgrading in roads, may never be viable in adverse weather conditions (snow and rain) and is least likely to be implemented in cities, which present far more daunting design demands that long-distance transport on highways.”