Month: January 2025
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Deaf Culture Wins & the Turning Point Threats
Barely a few weeks into 2025 GOP Conservatives are attacking essential services to the Deaf Community. These voices include Turning Point leader Charlie Kirk, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research and Heritage Foundation member Christopher Rufo, and contributing writer to Project 2025 and alt-right and white supremacist publications under the pseudonym Richard Hoste, Richard Hanania. Why are…
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Neil Gaiman and the Fall of Gods and Men
This is not the follow up piece to the Miami Vice Episode Eerily Relevant Now article I expected to write. But what do we do when heroes or friends are accused and who can be a predator? Neil Gaiman is the author of many works. Gen X Comic fans most likely discovered him in the…
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Miami Vice Episode Eerily Relevant Now
If we read in the news that the son of a wealthy CEO was under investigation for the rape an 18 year old immigrant, would we be shocked? Would we be surprised if the DA was reluctant to move forward despite physical evidence? If the charges were dropped by the victim would anyone be shocked?…
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How To Make Social Media Retro
Mark Zuckerburg not only announced that META will end fact checking, but he also baselessly accused the fact checkers of being “too politically biased” and said they “have destroyed more trust than they’ve created, especially in the U.S.” Elon Musk claims to value free speech, but has shown he might even penalize conservatives who disagree…
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Debbie Gibson Being Anxiously Lost In Her Eyes
On January 6th of 1989 Debbie Gibson released Lost in Your Eyes as a single. In less than 2 months it would climb to the top of the US and Canadian charts. At the tender age of 18 she became one of only four women to have written, produced, and performed multiple number one hits…
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Charlie Brown Stresses Out But Doesn’t Fail
39 years ago Happy New Year, Charlie Brown! premiered on CBS. It was the 30th network prime time special based on Peanuts and the last project helmed by Peanuts animater Bernard Gruver due to his passing away in June of 1985. Charlie Brown, as always, has something to teach us. He was stressed out, he…
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- Deaf Culture Wins & the Turning Point Threats
- Neil Gaiman and the Fall of Gods and Men
- Miami Vice Episode Eerily Relevant Now
- How To Make Social Media Retro
- Debbie Gibson Being Anxiously Lost In Her Eyes
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I first found out about Gaiman months ago from my adult child, who we watched Good Omens with due to…
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