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- Editor's Pick
- 2553 Views
- 28 Comments
Democracy in Texas
OCTOBER 23, 2012 12:34PM
Topics: civic soul, freedom of speech, first amendment, polis, politics, danagram, daniel rigney, democracy + texas, houston, racist vandalism, factoids, hate mail, stolen yard signs, election 2012
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- 477 Views
- 20 Comments
Dispatch from Houston: The NRA Convention
MAY 4, 2013 2:24PM
Topics: eyewitness news, satire, wwjc, gun manufacturers, news, politics, danagram, daniel rigney, national rifle association, nra, sarah pailn + nra, ted cruz + nra, lyndon larouche, gun violence, danagram, daniel rigney, digital materialization, 3dp, second amendment, gun advocates, gun resisters, no more names + gun, sandy hook, houston + nra, pov journalism, houston chronicle + nra, death technology, gun lust, gun porn, bill d. badger, christina taylor green, decorum spectrum, nra convention, weapons of mass marketed destruction, nra meetings
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- Editor's Pick
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- 29 Comments
Ten Republican Wars of 2012
FEBRUARY 6, 2012 6:51PM
Topics: history bats last, republican war + twenty-first century, war on voting, market god, mom and pop capitalism, social darwinism, social responsibility, war on the poor, war on the middle class, republican class warfare, war on immigrants, nation of immigrants, war on islam, christianity + ku klux klan, anti-intellectualism, war against labor, voter suppression campaign, war on sustainability, war on non-renewable energy, carbon industry, anti-intellectualism, war on labor, disorganized labor, individualized labor, war on feminism, war on family planning, war on planned parenthood, war on the environment, republicans + guns + warfare, conservatively incorrect, daniel rigney, danagram, politics, ideology, economy, 2012 elections, cultural warfare, republican class warfare
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- 464 Views
- 23 Comments
Why I Am Religious But Not Spiritual
MAY 2, 2013 5:18PM
Topics: religious humor, religious but not spiritual, rbns, spiritual but not religions, sbnr, unitarian, unitarian universalism, uu, daniel rigney, danagram, oed, spirituality score, spiritual journey, s-word, s-word journey, not a member of any organized religion, spirituality scale, belief/religion, comedy
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- 792 Views
- 18 Comments
Text to Self: Six Things to Avoid in Blogging
MAY 23, 2012 11:12AM
Topics: self-improvement blog, writing advice, self-advice, notes to self, writing as spiritual discipline, limbaugh + sanctity of marriage, limbaugh + drug laws, limbaugh + porky pig, earnest hummingbird, ernest hummingbird, wordiness, overpublication, premature submission, complete doofus, overly excessive wordiness, limbaugh + gasbag, self-improvement + writing, craft + honing, comedy, humor, text to self, avoid + blogging, danagram, daniel rigney, doofus, oversharing, hemingway + first drafts, limbaugh + sarcasm, blog + voice, vices of blogging, virtues of blogging, blogging + learning experience, blogging + discipline, unlearning tool, worst thing about blogging, best thing about blogging, blogging + learning tool
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- 903 Views
- 13 Comments
Six Degrees of Rush Limbaugh
MARCH 1, 2012 5:15PM
Topics: sandra fluke, georgetown + law, rush limbaugh, six degrees of kevin bacon, fluke + georgetown, contraception + limbaugh, feminazis, trust judgment, six degrees of rush limbaugh, daniel rigney, danagram, politics, feminism, contraception, glenn beck, catholic + contraception, six degrees of kevin bacon, six degrees of separation, limbaugh + bashir, limbaugh + feminazi, limbaugh + georgetown, limbaugh + prostitute, limbaugh + slut, limbaugh + contraception, limbaugh + fluke
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- 608 Views
- 13 Comments
Open Salon as Writer's Colony
JANUARY 5, 2012 10:27AM
Topics: open call, open salon, write on!, writer’s colony, writing communities, progressive + tolerant of difference, salonsters, daniel rigney, danagram, you may say i’m a dreamer, electronic writer’s colony, thoreau + dickinson + twain, humor, ungated community, forested lakeside, politics, recreational writing, amateur writer, amateur artist
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- Editor's Pick
- 1897 Views
- 18 Comments
Dispatch from Houston: The Sikh Temple Vigil
AUGUST 10, 2012 2:02PM
Topics: core values, culture of ignorance, houston + sikh, swirled world, candles in the wind, violence, danagram, daniel rigney, annise parker + vigil, houston, vigil, sikh temple
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- 707 Views
- 14 Comments
Romney Survives Close Encounter with NAACP
JULY 11, 2012 3:37PM
Topics: naacp + romney, houston + romney, wealth networking, party of lincoln, danagram, daniel rigney, mild-mannered reporter, daily planet, colbert + romney, david koch + romney, citizen-blogger, southern hospitality + racism, nixon + southern strategy, dixiecrats, naacp convention, naacp + houston, prince willard, call and response + naacp, call and response + romney, buzzfeed, cnn, bet, theroot.com + romney, roland martin + romney, busyness, big busyness, news, business, economy, politics, romney + racial politics, romney + civil rights, close encounters, leonard pitts + romney, big news
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- 276 Views
- 10 Comments
Clichés at the Crossroads
APRIL 6, 2013 2:03PM
Topics: clichés, platitudes, catch phrases, comedy, satire, humor, daniel rigney, danagram, at a crossroads, sustainable memes, religion/belief, sustainable clichés, wheels falling off, winding road, broken + cliché, in a ditch, off a cliff, energy, environment, ecology, green movement, history has no reverse gear, mental ruts, cultural ruts, belief/religion
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- 942 Views
- 18 Comments
My Favorite Famous Unitarians
SEPTEMBER 27, 2012 2:07PM
Topics: american philosophy + unitarian, american literature + unitarian, technology, science, politics, religion/belief, we’ll take our wisdom wherever we can find it, rod serling, buckminster fuller, oliver wendell holmes + unitarian, deists + unitarian, founders of the new republic + unitarian, mark twain + religion, horace mann + unitarian, susan b. anthony + unitarian, charles darwin + unitarian, whitney young, frank lloyd wright, theodore parker, science + unitarian, transcendentalism + unitarian, enlightenment + unitarian, social gospel + unitarian, danagram, daniel rigney, steeple bells, paul revere + unitarian, ben franklin + deist, thomas jefferson + deist, joseph priestly + unitarian, tim berners-lee + unitarian, kurt vonnegut, uu, famous unitarians, unitarian universalists, unitarians
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- Editor's Pick
- 3911 Views
- 16 Comments
Dispatch from Perry's (A)political Prayer Rally
AUGUST 8, 2011 7:50PM
Topics: rick perry, the response, apolitical, (a)political, reliant stadium, christian contemporary, contemporary christian, charismatic, evangelical, fundamentalist, shallow south, call and response, machiavellian, prince of peace, rove, doctor dobson, aclu, first amendment, freedom from religion, oil patch, joel osteen, young evangelicals, houston, changing of the gods, august 6 2011, twilight zone, unconventional worlds, book of joel, emerging church, unitarian universalists, nonpolitical, non partisan, (non)political, daniel rigney, danagram, open call, for sale, belief/religion, comedy, family, environment, economy, feminism, gay/lesbian, fox in lamb's clothing, state religion of texas, official state religion, state administered prayer, state organized prayer, sadness of joy, burning city on a hill, congenital curiosity, perry watcher, perry prayer zone, fundamentalists and other evangelicals, praying for prayer, gullible birther, semi-secular, music, news, television, politics
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- 688 Views
- 14 Comments
Biden Love-Booed at NAACP Convention
JULY 12, 2012 6:15PM
Topics: class warfare from above, wealth network, half-standing ovation, tea party + boos, tea party + jeers, class warfare, nonessential + expensive, love boos, humor, news, politics, danagram, daniel rigney, julian bond + biden, julian bond + romney, michael shure + current tv, michael shure + currenttv, booing + biden, booing + romney, biden speech, biden + naacp, romney + naacp, naacp + houston, naacp national convention, biden booed, obamacare vs. affordable care act, spinword, romney + classy guy, spin + obamacare, boo bait + romney spin word + obamacare, boo bait, boo-bait, free stuff + romney
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- 342 Views
- 14 Comments
Kevin Bacon Linked to Hannibal Lecter Crimes
MAY 7, 2013 12:12AM
Topics: satire, six degrees of kevin bacon, six degrees of separation, kevin bacon, anthony hopkins, hannibal lecter, cannibal, cannibalism, tabloid, sensationalism, silence of the lambs, disinformation, danagram, daniel rigney, comedy, movies, movie trivia, tabloid culture, tabloidization of everything, rupert murdoch + tabloid, news, phrasal template, virtual informant, digital informant, x is linked to y, is linked to, fake news, humor
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- 374 Views
- 10 Comments
An Occidental Tourist in Brooklyn
APRIL 27, 2013 11:06PM
Topics: danagram, daniel rigney, metanostalgic, simpletown, brooklyn lodger, queens + the new brooklyn, cultural ferment, new york fetish, travel, comedy, humor, culture of irony, nostalgia for nostalgia, metanostalgia, haute dogue, haute dog, gowanus, pedestrianize, we’re going on a bear hunt, judy chicago + dinner party, museum + muses, drummer’s grove, prospect park, pre-ironic, post-ironic, irony, comedy, high line + new york, new museum + new york, new museum + bowery, the contemp, cherry blossoms + brooklyn, brooklyn brewery, a voice of a generation, liberal self parody, self parody, urban villagers, urban village, stereohype, food coop, food co-op, flexitarian, organivore, locavore, death of the hipster, dolphins rape humans, death of hipsterism, hipsterism + irony, hipsterism + sarcasm, new york fetish, williamsburg brooklyn, postpostmodern, last hipster, urban slacker, self-referential, brooklyn bridge, trapped in the body of a, strait of irony, mariel hemingway, gershwin + woody allen, bagel store + bedford, bagel store + brooklyn, underwater train, transit museum, connecting things, connecting places, connecting people, connecting cultures, trendiest + brooklyn, trendy + brooklyn, trending + brooklyn, houston + ellis island, urbane nature, urban nature, brooklyn museum, densification, walkability, cosmopolitanism, cultural scouting trip, i-word + intellectual, appletop, wordsmith, tree grows in brooklyn, cherry trees + brooklyn, brooklyn promenade, lena dunham + greenpoint, lena dunham + brooklyn, anti-intellectual, non-anti-intellectual, food trucks, street food, park slope brownstones, civilized nature, brooklyn heights brownstones, woody allen + brooklyn, nyrb, nyer, geocultural + identity, fips, park slope, pfsc, park slope food coop, houston + brooklyn, brooklyn + tourist destination, brooklyn tourism, travel + brooklyn, occidental tourist, westernman
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- 645 Views
- 14 Comments
Monkey Mindfulness
SEPTEMBER 21, 2012 12:42PM
Topics: generalist, infosphere, curiosity, watercourse, transcendental meditation, restless mind syndrome, resynthesizing ourselves, dilettante, dilettante + generalist, comedy, cash cab, jeopardy, college bowl, belief/religion, television, mantra, wikipedia + hyperlinks, whimsical, fanciful, restless, stream of consciousness, trivia, cash cab, jeopardy, trivial pursuit, encyclopedia, world book encyclopedia, resynthesizing ourselves, synthesis, belief/religion, seriousness, humor, daniel rigney, danagram, meditation, monkey mindfulness, mindfulness, monkey mind, humor, connect the dots, humanities nerd, plan ii, buddhist monkey, trivia nerd, nerds, plan ii, collect the dots, curious george
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- 649 Views
- 8 Comments
Patricia’s Seven Lives
SEPTEMBER 15, 2012 12:29AM
Topics: family, belief/religion, daniel rigney, danagram, word portrait, nuns on the bus, hatch + glbt, hatch + houston, houston + social justice, grrrl, unitarian, universalist, unitarian-universalist, uu, spiritual rebirth, glbt + houston, reinventing ourselves, resynthesizing ourselves, resynthesizing yourself, biographical reconstruction, reincarnation, est + forum, postconventional, peggy olson + glass ceiling, mother metaphor, backroomocracy, pine curtain, houston + unitarian, first uu + houston, trishism, mommy bunny, pink sisters + monastic, situationally neurotic, new breed + nuns, religious liberals, first unitarian + houston, religious left, ecumenical + welcoming, take wisdom wherever find it, social parenthood, mother of the century, vatican 1.5, vatinan ii, madge bush, est + forum, sister christopher, mother trish
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- 578 Views
- 9 Comments
Critical Eating Skills
AUGUST 23, 2012 4:34PM
Topics: gourmet satire, foodies, third coast, texas riviera, blue bell, vomitorium, classification classifies classifier, texmex cuisine, cajun cuisine, creole cuisine, cafe insecta, rimshot the sitdown comic, cafe du fracque, insecta expensiva, business, food/drink, humor, comedy, danagram, daniel rigney, houston + satire, texas + satire, dallas + satire, texas cuisine, cuisine, distinction + bourdieu, critical thinking skills, critical eating skills
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- 753 Views
- 21 Comments
The Billionocracy: “Citizens United” Against Citizens
JUNE 6, 2012 11:18AM
Topics: citizens united, citizens united v. citizens, billionocracy, wisconsin recall, scott walker, scottwalker, koch brothers, koch zero, groundlings, anatol france + law in its majestic equality, backroomocracy, machiavelli + american politics, plato + cave + screens, dewey + failed experiment in democracy, de toqueville + democracy in america, not worth the ink, not worth the pixels, danagram, daniel rigney, politics, plutocracy, oligarchy, oil + oligarchy, oiligarchy, money should talk, money talks loudly, carries a bigger stick, teddy roosevelt, secret contributions, money + free speech, first amendment + money, financial instruments, political investment instruments, scotus, scrotus, scalia + citizens united, citizen alito, citizen kennedy, citizen thomas, citizen roberts, super pacs, television, news, political economy, buy laws
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- 564 Views
- 8 Comments
What Is a "Scottwalker"?
JUNE 2, 2012 8:24PM
Topics: satire, comedy, humor, daniel rigney, danagram, internet slang + g.o.p., politics, nick anderson, two party state + republican + tea party, two party state + texas, coulter-limbaugh wedding, coulter + limbaugh + wedding, palm beach wedding, gated wedding, trump + clown hair, multimillionaire + relatively unsuccessful, koch light, blogging cap, tip of the blogging cap, gop + greed over people, g.o.p. + greed over people, wisconsin + recall + scottwalker, political sock puppet, pogosphere, pogging, pogger, p.o.g. + pog, g.o.p. + p.o.g, goposphere, dictionary of the future + scottwalker, dictionary of the future, koch + corporate giants, scottwalker + scott walker, scottwalker
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