'Toddlers and Tiaras' Becomes PTC Target After Girl, 3, Dresses as Prostitute (Video) - The Hollywood Reporter

One week after an episode of the show, which featured a 4-year old wearing fake breasts and butt-pads to be dressed as Dolly Parton, caused viewer and critical outrage (and forced TLC to take down its Facebook wall because of negative ( Read more... )

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On the futility and irony of trying to eliminate all danger from our world -- forgetting that the greatest danger to us is . . . us.

A series á la the BBC production Walking With . . . series, called Walking With Shoggoths, about the origins and history of life on Earth as presented or hinted at by H. P. Lovecraft and the other members of the Lovecraft Circle. Quite seriously, if done right, it would make for a gorgeous production, one that could also be used to teach ( Read more... )

I've been asked why I persist in "studying and writing about that nonsensical Qaballah. After all, it's just New Age bullshit."

Well, no. It isn't New Age bullshit -- nor is it "just" anything. It's a powerful pedagogical tool which can, furthermore, turn one-string harps into synthesizers. That is, if you really study Qaballah, over the years ( Read more... )

A followup on an earlier post ( Read more... )