suicide
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On bread.
Bread is pretty amazing. But it shouldn’t be anybody’s *only* therapeutic resource.
A Note of Caution Regarding Sentencing Reform, Adam, Attica, Blood in the Water, bread, bread craft, bread sculpture, cardboard piano, chess set made of bread, cooked food, Demetrius Cunningham, depression, deprivation, ear gauge, Eden, Emily Wilson, Eve, expulsion from Eden, Fire, Freedom Riders, Heather Ann Thompson, Hell is a Very Small Place, history of incarceration, Homer, How to Create Madness in Prison, human mortality, incarceration, jail, jail food, jail meals, jail poetry, Laestrygonia, mass incarceration, netsuke, nothing works, Odysseus, poetry, prison, prison education, prison poetry, prison reform, rehab, rehabilitation, Robert Martinson, Solidarity under Close Confinement, suicide, teaching in jail, teaching poetry in jail, Terry Kupers, The Odyssey, therapy, tree of knowledge of good and evil, tree of life, vegan, veganism, vegetarian, wasted ingenuity, What Works, Yahweh, yeast, yeasted bread
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On radical religious terrorists targeting the United States.
Radical Christian terrorists have wrecked egregious violence throughout the United States, but few politicians speak out against them.
abortion, Abraham, Alta Vista Hospital, Aryan, attacking doctors, attempted murder, Bible, born into hostage situation, Camus, Christian apologist, Christian Identity, Christian terrorism, conception, Curtis, Danny Davis, Deliver Them from Evil, faith, Fear and Trembling, fetus, Gods of the Blood, gun violence, gynecology, homocide, hostage, hostage situation, intimidation, Israel, jail, Job, Kierkegaard, King James, knight of infinite resignation, leap of faith, Matthias Gardell, McDonalds, Michael Griffin, miscarriage, miscegenation, Mix My Blood with the Blood of the Unborn, Paul Hill, Phineas, Phineas actions, reproductive health, reproductive rights, Richard Kelly Hoskins, self-aborting zygotes, Shelly Shannon, shootings, suicide, terrorism, terrorist, The Pagan Revival and White Separatism, The Phinehas Priesthood, tubal ligation, Utah, violence against doctors, violent vanguard of the Christian Identity movement, when does human life begin, white supremacy, women’s reproductive health, women’s right to choose, zygote
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On psychedelic drugs as medicine.
Would a sudden jolt away from our minds’ ruts help treat depression? Or — complacency in general?
acid, acid trip, addict, addiction, autism, ayahuasca, CBT, CIA, clinical trials, cognitive behavioral therapy, David Foster Wallace, depressed, depression, DMT, drugs, ecstasy, entheogen, experiments on children, experiments on orphans, habit, In Search of Lost Time, Infinite Jest, Intoxication, involuntary experimentation, junkie, Lauretta Bender, learning, lost love, LSD, lysergic acid, Marcel Proust, MDMA, mescaline, MK Ultra, molly, mushrooms, neurology, organic synthesis, orphans, peyote, placebo, placebo effect, psilocin, psilocybin, psychedelic, Remembrance of Things Past, Ronald Siegel, Schedule I, shrooms, suicide, virtuous cycle, William Burroughs, you must change your life
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On stalking and the risk of seeming crazy.
Group stalking sounds crazy… but no crazier than the online harassment of women that’s been widely documented already.
Bill McKibben, David James, delusions, graphic threats not taken seriously by law enforcement, group stalking, how to discuss legitimate worries without enabling mental illness?, if you torture the data it will confess, internet harassment, internet trolls, Lorraine Sheridan, middle-school girls harassed to death, National Security Agency, NSA, on-campus stalking, one reason why women drop out of college, online harassment, online harassment of women, post traumatic stress disorder, PTSD, schizophrenia, stalking, suicide, telephone metadata, trolls
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On self-immolation.
I try to be upfront with people — especially young students I volunteer with — about my own depression.
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On Simon Critchley’s ‘Memory Theater’ and other people’s lost time.
Long-lost artifacts trigger powerful memories … but without an explanation, they seem meaningless to others.
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On proving that elections will make you miserable.
Somehow I’d deluded myself into thinking that typing this essay would make me happy. I see now that I was wrong.
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On civil forfeiture, racial profiling, and outlawing self-harm.
I spent most of breakfast today blathering about civil forfeiture. So K claimed I should write an essay about it. I thought that sounded ridiculous, because I figured everyone already knew about it. Indeed, a brief internet search revealed that even John Oliver did an extended piece on it; sure, we don’t have a television,…
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