Amber, also known as Rebellyious of Chainsaw Shimmy Productions, adds a unique twist to traditional belly and gypsy dancing or what she calls tribal fusion. Tonight she is introducing the world, to what she believes to be the first belly-punk fusion performance in a small establishment called The Break Room, in Topeka's downtown. It will serve to exclamate the militaries dirty...
Rachel Maddow hosted her MSNBC show at Free State Brewery on Wednesday, discussing current national and state issues, such as union rights and abortion rights. Maddow said she has been following the ethics hearings of former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline.
A proposed amendment being debated in the Kansas Legislature would prohibit undocumented immigrants from being eligible for in-state tuition. This ammendment would deprive innocent children brought to the United States through no choice of their own the opportunity for higher education.
How many of us seek out a relationship, want to find companionship with someone because we are afraid of loneliness? How many of us think that we could be with anyone we want but are, in moments of doubt, afraid that no one will love us?
In anticipation of Labor Day, a coalition of labor, environmental and community groups has called on Wal-Mart - the country's largest retailer - to "join them in supporting the core American values of worker rights, quality jobs, equal opportunity, corporate responsibility and a healthy environment.""Labor Day is an important time to reflect on the state of the American workplace and worker. As...
This is the text of an essay on the new Liberty Movement that has sprung up across the United States in response to the "socialist" policies of the current administration.It is intended for distribution at gun shows, and the audience it hopes to reach is mainly white working class people.
The following is an excerpt from Ryan Grim's new book, "This Is Your Country on Drugs: The Secret History of Getting High in America (Wiley, 2009).The new book shares the '80s generation's encounter with illicit drugs, and how they really caught on.
Learning about self-deception is important for all people today. That's because many of our problems, both as individuals and as a society, are rooted in self-deception, and many of the ways in which others abuse us relate to our inherent tendency to self-deceive. We can overcome these problems, and have a decent chance at long-term survival as a species, only if we learn about such limitations...
McCain campaign asked McCain family slave descendants not to talk to press... They didn't listen: "He is denying his black and white relatives in Teoc. I think he may not want the country to know his family's full history, but times have changed and we need to move on, and that's why I'm supporting Obama." – Joyce McCain, 54
Psychically, the human/nature relationship started to crack when Judeo-Christian stories overtook pagan creation myths. Instead of being created from nature, humans came to believe they alone were created in the image of God. This gave them the freedom to exploit nature without recognizing its value beyond human use. Nothing on Earth but humanity was sacred.
Like most Americans in their mid-twenties, I am a child of the computer age. That I did not immediately jump on the Facebook wagon is not due to an innate dislike of technology or an irrational fear of the web, but merely because I graduated from college before Facebook became a university fad. I was, like an ever-decreasing number of people, happily oblivious to this social networking website...
The idea is simple: take your TV, your DVD player, your video iPod, your XBOX 360, your laptop, your PSP, and say goodbye to them all for seven days. Simple, but not at all easy. Like millions of others before you, you’ll be shocked at just how difficult - yet also how life-changing - a week spent unplugged can really be.
Devon Grey's new trilogy, The Corporate Media Survival Guide introduces viewers to television's hidden technology and the unspoken corporate agenda that surrounds it. To view "How The News Works"...