It's Like Black/White: A Lot Of People Get Confused

Jesus H. Macy - today science is delivering more of TMR:

  Vegetarians more likely to think they are unhealthy, study finds

Research by the Medical University of Graz say vegetarians are more likely to think they have poorer health and relationships

"Poorer relationships", do you say? Hmmm - long ago, studies showed the same for yoga practitioners, too. (Yes, the same yoga they're now trying to force into American schools.) Why nobody likes reporting that is beyond me.

Meanwhile, don't forget, TMR had reported this yesterday:

  Study: You Can't Snap an Anti-Vaxxer's NewAge Mind

So - cutting to the chase:

How long do you think it'll take these geniuses to realize they're discussing the same NewAgers?

 

The Dallas Buyer's Club: Hollywood Giving Us A Nudge

The “cowboy drug smuggler” appeared more like an insurance salesman under fluorescent lights than an emasciated Matthew McConaughey on the big screen.

Ron was never dressed in Wild West clothes. He never mentioned the rodeo. Too, he was very well aware that some of his customers in Dallas were gay. He never uttered anything homophobic to me.

A Tribe Called Red: When The Powwow Meets Hip-Hop

"Sopranos Azteca"

 

Matt Lewis Concedes Conservatism's Lost To Culture

I hate to say "I told you so" but I told you so:

Today, conservatives have made a shocking discovery: They are the ones in danger of appearing out of touch with middle America,…

Years earlier, the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan observed, "The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society." Years later, Andrew Breitbart would popularize this notion, , and introduce it to a new generation of conservatives,….

…In the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, Republicans did quite well electorally. Simultaneously, however, ,..For every Republican elected, there were 10 films or songs (many of them quite good, actually),...

ROTFLMAO

Blacks Ended Slavery - Not Whites (End Of Story)

The truth is, whites HELPED to end slavery, just as they HELPED in the Civil Rights Movement, but the idea that anyone wanted freedom for blacks more, or suffered more to get it, than blacks themselves, is preposterous. Blacks have always freed ourselves, and the importance of destroying slavery wasn't a choice, like it was for whites. No white man had to tell Harriet Tubman what she was doing, and they didn't always know, but "Moses" is one example of blacks destroying slavery.

 - The Crack Emcee, February 20, 2014

Slavery ended because blacks could no longer stand it. Most whites, however, understood that they could live without it. That is not quite the definition of moral progress we might expect. But it is a humbling reminder of how moral campaigns are actually won: with more than simple appeals to the heart.

 - The Daily Beast, February 18, 2014, reviewing David Brion Davis' new book, The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Emancipation

 

Not An Uncle Tom (But You Can Pick Another Relative)

Herman Cain saw Lee Daniels' The Butler and came away with a slightly-different message than most blacks:

  "Right now, it's not looking too good. Those who have spent their lives committed to the struggle do not betray that commitment by acknowledging that this is the truth. Indeed, they honor it. We can do better than this."

So black people, by pulling down a president (we view as) under attack from whites, we're honoring those who whites destroyed.

Obama Would Have Been Impeached if He Was White

Glad to hear it.

Black people are never electing Herman Cain to anything,…

 

Your Truth

Are the Grammys even relevant to hip-hop?...the Grammys tends to be a measure of market success (which arguably doesn't necessarily equate to talent). Selling records isn't the same as making good hip-hop and Macklmeore's sickly sweet 'hip-pop' fits straight into the mould of easily digestible rap lyrics.

The juxtaposition of The Heist and Good Kid, M.A.A.D City exposed to an almost surrealistic level that hop-hop and the Grammys aren't relevant to each other. You'd think anyone evaluating Best Rap Album would be able to see how grossly different these albums are - and why the former simply doesn't cut it. But instead of hating Macklemore and hating the Grammys - I find it easier to simple not acknowledge either.

I Get The Giggles Considering The Fun Yogis Are Having

Once you get yourself into that yoga is exercise/spiritual practice gray area - and because you got yourself into it - everybody (every-body?) already in the cult knows, it's open season, to move on you:

 The latest so-called scandal involves actress Uma Thurman’s brother Dechan Thurman, a Jivamukti yoga instructor whom a (presumably former) friend, Maria Sliwa, claims confided to her that he’s a sex addict who frequently engages in sex with his female students. Sliwa says that she informed Jivamukti management, which prohibits teachers from sexing up their students, about Thurman’s proclivities but the organization hasn’t done anything about it.

The accusations against Thurman aren’t uncommon, though they are rather innocuous compared to some of the claims of abuse out there. Check out just a few of the more serious cases in which yoga instructors have been accused of impropriety, harassment and even rape.

TMR's masterbatory message don't change - just like these guys:

Keep doing those asanas, Ladies!

Call them anything you like, yoga/exercise, they don't care, but - whatever you do - don't stop practicing those asanas,...

The Macho Response: Gays, Women & Warping Reality

• Straight women and homosexual men are the most natural allies 

 • Relationship characterised by a lack of sexual competition and deception 

 • Straight women more trusting of gay men over women or straight men

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”

― George Orwell

Worse is the evangelism, full of wide-eyed enthusiasm that comes across as the arrogance of youth and groupthink. It has its own lingo, its own social norms, and of course you must pay top dollar to enter. No wonder it reminds me of Landmark Forum.

After working for the company for six months, Wilson would pay for employees to attend Landmark Forum, a kind of "group therapy-cum-self-help seminar."

"The idea that you could shape reality to look however you wanted suddenly seemed dangerous, easily abused, especially among my Type A co-workers, who exercised and worked and exercised and worked and ate so little that it was not really a surprise that someone, eventually, snapped."

"Too Bad (Our Gay & Feminist Friends Said Otherwise)"

-TMR, December 23, 2013

"Hey, it's cheaper than therapy," a therapist-turned-real estate agent tells me. He ponders how to persuade one of his employees to pony up for the Forum. She's going through a rough patch, he explains—the recession, her marriage.

The central character, Amelia, arrives at Sutton McGrath and Feingold to help one particularly stressed-out employee, Jun Suk, with his presentation skills. But, Amelia quickly gets swept up in the turbulence of downsizing, office hook-ups and self-medicating.

"The Consultant" looks at one,...company office to get at the bigger picture of working life today.

Along the way, the play pokes fun at a lot of aspects of contemporary New York City, from the putdowns aimed at those who live in Murray Hill, to the way that graduates of the "The Forum" -- 1970s guru Werner Erhard's offshoot of est -- can drive their friends and co-workers crazy with tales of the way their lives have improved after the seminars.

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It's Possible: Atheists Are The Only Honest People Alive

The first things I noticed, above and below, was how liars are always ready to disrespect American blacks by appropriating our argument (how long the oppression has been taking place) and how easily everyone else decides that claim is valid - when advanced by anyone but blacks:

"I came across another falsified claim of brutal anti-Christian oppression today. 

 ...I should point out that the people behind this hoax presumably subscribe to the Ten Commandments, including the one against bearing false witness.

The Jewish Chronicle, pushing its own agenda, published the same photo and called the executed men “dissidents.” A pro-LGBT blogger falsely claimed they were gay, and some Internet commenters were happy to perpetuate that fallacy.

 P.S.: I unsuccessfully tried to find instances of atheists or agnostics lying about the photo to advance their cause....

That's because - unlike all these others - we atheists don't have to fib:

Blacks can't advance surrounded by racist liars,...

I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do) Should Have Got Done

True story - my best friend tried to talk me into assaulting John Oates one night at the movies ("We'll make the papers!") but cooler heads (mine) prevailed - I'm starting to regret it:

“How else could Hall & Oates enjoy,...a successful career but through the intervention of some occult entity?”

Things could've been very different, for all of us, if I had known:

At the time, I thought they were only guilty of providing one good song-per-album,...

 

Things The Unloved Are Thankful For (Thanksgiving IV)

William S. Burroughs' Thanksgiving Prayer is now a TMR ritual.

    

 And I mean, come on - it's Thanksgiving,...

Not Having "Daddy Issues" Is My Aid For Seeing Reality

I guess, it could go without saying, I am NOT a social scientist:

"It doesn’t take a social scientist to see that a blizzard of how-to books on “positivity” suggests its lack in everyday life. Behind the facade of smiley-faced optimism, American culture seems awash in a pervasive sadness,...."

But being able to see past the facade ain't exactly a party either,...

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Power: I Can Tell You (But You Still Won't Understand)

"I am not a feminist. I cannot support a movement that asks for special treatment rather than equal treatment, and I do not understand why anyone would."

They're Back (As The Spiritual Colonization Continues)

“Parents who say yoga is inherently religious have appealed a judge's ruling that allowed yoga in a public school system near San Diego, saying it violates the constitutional separation of church and state.



'Our children are not religious guinea pigs and should never be subjected to such misguided religious experimentation,' said Dean Broyles, president of the National Center for Law and Policy, a nonprofit based in Escondido, Calif.,…”

Believing Creates Lies

“Alex sets out to set the record straight and tell the truth. The truth is, there’s this whole other conversation, and that’s the way in which the sport and the big world of advertising participated in this. Isolating Lance is not the whole conversation. The number of people that participated in it and built that myth, whether knowing, sort of knowing, or not wanting to know, is a whole thing Alex talks about in the movie and is a really important conversation.”

Young Jay-Z Surfaces (And Not Exactly A Drug Dealer)