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

    

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

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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"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."

“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.,…”

“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.”