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February 7, 2015

(You Better) Take Care of Business, Mr. Business Man, by Martha Thomases- Brilliant Disguise | @MDWorld

In preparation for another election year, our elected representatives (and those who would like to be) are falling over each other to praise the small business. I like small businesses....

January 31, 2015

Losing My Religion, by Martha Thomases – Brilliant Disguise | @MDWorld

This week marks the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp.  Although I’ve seen a lot of film footage of this event over the years (and went...

January 30, 2015

A Flat Stomach…the Hard Way – Sunset Observer #40, by Whitney Farmer – Un Pop Culture | @MDWorld

@farmer_whitney (Twitter/FLICKR) or farmerwhitney (Instagram) and Facebook #edcmooc #edcmoocrocks #FarmerFamily When you read this, my surgery will be finished. These will be my first interesting scars. True, not the coveted...

January 26, 2015

Blasphemy – The Fire This Time, by Mike Gold – Brainiac On Banjo #389 | @MDWorld

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. • Mark Twain Since we’ve been on the subject of free speech vs. religious zeal, I would like you...

January 24, 2015

It’s a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, by Martha Thomases – Brilliant Disguise | @MDWorld

So how is your 2015 going so far?  If you are like most people, your New Year’s resolutions are already a distant memory.   There are lots of reasons for...

January 17, 2015

Understanding, by Martha Thomases – Brilliant Disguise | @MDWorld

One of the things I do when I write, especially about something that is foreign to me, is try to find examples in my own landscape so that I might...

January 16, 2015

The Point Radio: Reality Smackdown On WRESTLING WITH DEATH | @MDWorld

We introduce you to The Latham Family. By day they run a successful mortuary business and by night they enter the squared circle of Mid South Championship Wrestling. This fascinating...

January 13, 2015

The Point Radio: Making Magic With Amber Benson | @MDWorld

Like you, we first fell in love with Amber Benson during her days on BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER. The feelings only grew as we watch her evolve into a director,...

January 13, 2015

Beneath the Sweltering Heat of the Summer Night Sky, Around the Circle of Dancing Flames, by Stanford W. Carpenter – My EthnoSurreal Life | @MDWorld

Suriname. Beneath the sweltering heat of the summer night sky around the circle of dancing flames drinking a mixture of coffee, condensed milk, and 180-proof rum telling stories of adventure,...

January 10, 2015

Good Time Charlie, by Martha Thomases – Brilliant Disguise | @MDWorld

Like all people with a soul, I am outraged over the terrorist murders of the cartoonists and other employees of the French satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, apparently by Islamic fundamentalists....

January 9, 2015

The Point Radio: 12 MONKEYS Twisting Time Again | @MDWorld

Two decades after it hit theaters and became an SF classic, 12 MONKEYS is being retooled as a new TV series, but does it still have the DNA to survive? Stars Amanda Schull and Aaron Stanford talk about the...

January 6, 2015

Introductions, by Stanford Carpenter – My EthnoSurreal Life | @MDWorld

  INTRODUCTION Welcome to “My EthnoSurreal Life” where animated objects and things are more human – and even more humane – than many people encountered in everyday life. Yes. As...

January 5, 2015

Unleash Our Childish Brats, by Mike Gold – Brainiac On Banjo #388 | @MDWorld

Here are a couple of recent facts that trouble decent people. 1) Despite pleas from the police commissioner, union officials and even from their hallowed Rudy Giuliani, at today’s New...

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