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With the recent passing of one of Jazz's pioneers, the great Dave Brubeck, this week's music thread is about Jazz. Any form of Jazz, from traditional to modern, from...

This week's music thread is about songs that make you smile, chuckle or laugh out loud. They say laughter is the best medicine, but after the election, we don't really need the medicine.

The book was the translation by Gia Fu Feng and contains beautiful black and white nature photos by Jane English. I was pleased with this gift and was eager to dive in get acquainted with the Tao Te Ching. Wow, it was so mysterious to me at first. I had very little understanding of what these eighty one ideograms meant and how they could apply to my life.

This weekend's music thread is a tribute to Don Cornelius, SoulTrain and the many artists that flourished after appearing on this landmark television show. Take your pick, Motown, R&B, Soul or Funk, or all of the above.

There is not, throughout the whole book called the Bible, any word that describes to us what we call a poet, nor any word that describes what we call...

Government harassment of U.S. political activists clearly exists today, violating our fundamental democratic rights and creating a climate of fear and distrust which undermines our efforts to challenge official policy.

  In Mr. Orwell's dystopian novel "1984," he paints a very bleak and totalitarian picture. Mr. Orwell completed this famous work in 1948 and wasn't quite sure what title it...

Considering the Tea Party's candidates and leader's (deliberate?) misconceptions about our founding fathers and what they truly believed, I am writing this in the hopes that some of them...

Religion in government is not new. There have been elements of religion that date back to our founders. There has been much debate about the theology of our founders,...

Dr. "Jack," Kevorkian passed away on 6/3/11. Last Friday, to be exact He has been hailed as a champion by the right to die movement and vilified as a ghoulish...