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Constitutional Crisis?

I have remained silent on all my anti-social media platforms. As much as I have wanted to respond, correct, engage and persuade, I have…

Nov 6

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Aunt Sally

Depending on which [old white] guy they voted for, around 70,000,000 (give or take a couple million) of your fellow Americans voted for…

Nov 5, 2020

Aunt Sally

Nov 5, 2020

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Michael Althouse

The Radical Middle

There is, seemingly, nothing that the far right and far left agree on. In fact the one sure thing that they clearly do agree on would get…

Feb 7, 2020

The Radical Middle

Feb 7, 2020

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Michael Althouse

Dog People

One of the great injustices in life is that the average human lifespan is so much longer than that of the average dog. For those of us who…

Dec 30, 2021

Dog People

Dec 30, 2021

Michael Althouse

I read your first entry, one that came through in my "Medium Digest" today ("These 5 Subtle...")

I can relate to not only your experience in sobriety (I just celebrated 20 years last August), but I also recognize the exuberance and…

2d ago

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Michael Althouse

I made the mistake of reading a couple of recovery related articles on Medium and now the algorithm…

Almost. First things first (another cliche, but in this case accurate), what you are calling "gaslighting" is barely that, if at all. Those…

Nov 10

Nov 10

Michael Althouse

This is now the second story of yours that the algorithm has directed me to.

Okay. Let's say you are successful, you have convinced us - all of us; all however many billions of us there are now all believe you, there…

Oct 28

Oct 28

Michael Althouse

Really? As though it has a mind of it's own...

I don't really care how people want to get to functional lives once they have made a mess of them - I know how I did it and have lived for…

Oct 23

Oct 23

Michael Althouse

It's not just more formal spiritual movements, but informal ones as well.

As a result, the "unity" the fellowships say they depend on is challenged by the cliques these narcissists create. And guess what? Yep…

Oct 13

Oct 13

Michael Althouse

This was written 11 days ago, so hopefully you now have almost 11 weeks of sobriety.

I know, I know, you hit rock bottom this time, you're doing it differently this time, it's for different reasons this time, etc., etc…

Sep 22

Sep 22

Michael Althouse

Michael Althouse

Lecturer/professor of communication studies at California State University, Sacramento. www.michaelalthouse.com

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