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Myth

Is It OK to Lie About Santa?

Samantha Kurtzman-Counter | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Myth, Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny, The Mother Company, Samantha Kurtzman-Counter, Christmas, Santa Claus, Childhood, Truth, Healthy Living News
Samantha Kurtzman-Counter

I decided to ask a few leaders of different faiths, "What is your take on whether or not to spin tall tales to children about the existence of Santa (or the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy and the like)?"

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Obama Hates Social Justice Liberals Like Me

Terry Curtis Fox | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Myth, Social Justice, Liberal, Obama, Social Narrative, Liberalism, Politics News
Terry Curtis Fox

Barack Obama hates me. It's nothing personal. I'm just part of the one group that really seems to piss the President off -- social justice liberals

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SBA Loses Legal Battle Over Crisis Management PR Contract

Lloyd Chapman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Small Business Contracts, Fraud, Diversion, Myth, Small Business, Abuse, Apco Worldwide, Federal Court, Asbl, Lloyd Chapman, Sba, American Small Business League, Miscoding, Lawsuit, Large Firms, Freedom of Information Act, Business News
Lloyd Chapman

The proposal to combine the SBA with the Commerce Department is just the latest attempt by the government to cover up billions of dollars in abuse while dismantling small business contracting programs.

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Julia Stiles and Mimi Goese Take On Godly Sexual Politics at BAM

G. Roger Denson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Persephone, Julia Stiles, Victorians, Opera, Theater, Music, Music News, Mimi Goese, Feminism, Proserpini, Myth, Warren Leight, Ridge Theater, Hades, Greek Gods, Demeter, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Performance Art, Bam, Arts News, Ben Neill, Arts News
G. Roger Denson

I'm left wishing for the days when minimalism, the musical school that best suits Neill's instincts, still dictated the theatrical standards of contemporary opera and performance art.

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John Lennon: Working Class Mythmaker

Scott Thill | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: The Beatles, Myth, John Lennon, Videogames, Yoko Ono, Hyperreality, Media, Music, Film, Animation, Ku Klux Klan, Fbi, Entertainment News
Scott Thill

When we examine Lennon, we must examine not just a temporal snapshot but the history of music, film, comics, conspiracy theory, literature, poetry, politics, technology from his birthday onward.

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Manifesting the Moon

Sebastian Siegel | Posted 06.09.2011 | Arts
Read More: Manifestation, Visualization, Nonduality, Sebastian Siegel, Meditation, Spirituality, Sleep, Myth, The Inner Life, Joseph Campbell, Oscar Wilde, Philosophy, Freud, Freedive, Psychology, Film, God, Poetry, Ken Wilber, Esoteric, Integral, Dreams, Actor, Alan Watts, Carl Jung, Arts News
Sebastian Siegel

Later I woke in the night saying aloud, "a beautiful aspect of nonduality is the rebirth of duality."

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Obama Muslim Myth on the Rise

Brendan Nyhan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Polls, Public Opinion, Myth, Obama Muslim Smear, Muslim, Barack Obama, Politics News
Brendan Nyhan

Why has the misperception that Obama is a Muslim increased over time? As Republicans and independents view Obama more unfavorably, they're likely to be more receptive to negative information about him, including false claims about his religion.

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David Vognar | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Read More: Norms, Myth, Socrates, Greek Mythology, Mythology, Western Culture, Society, Philosophy, Social Justice, Culture, Truth, Impact News
David Vognar

We do not need to totally abandon myth in order to live in the way of truth. We just need to get out of the way of acting out our myths.

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Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine & Rites of Passage: Songs of Scythian Stones

Michal Shapiro | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Joseph Campbell, Myth, Mongolia, Scythian Stones, Gogol Bordello, Kyrgyzstan, Yara Arts Group, Ukraine, La Mama, Eugene Hutz, Virlana Tkacz, Arts News
Michal Shapiro

Virlana Tkacz's work with the Yara Arts Group reflects her desire to re-integrate the ancient "ways of knowing" as she puts it, into modern life.

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An Academic Outpost of Heaven

Tom Morris | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Philosophy, Homer, Chapel Hill, Thoreau, Conversation, Morehead-Cain Foundation, Myth, Wendell Berry, Education, Humanities, Chaucer, Plato, The University of North Carolina, Yale University, The Past, University of the South, Deep-Conversation, University of Notre Dame, C.P. Snow, Sewanee, The Two Cultures, Home News
Tom Morris

There's a particular alternate reality experience that I highly recommend. It happens to take place at an academic outpost of heaven. Forty five minu...

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Homelessness Myth #1: "Get a Job!"

Christine Schanes | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Jobs, Laundry Facilities, Public Toilets, Showers, Homelessness, Causes, Employment, Myth, Poverty, Christine Schanes, Healthy Living News
Christine Schanes

"Get a job!" is an easy expression to say. However, for some homeless people, getting a job is an impossible dream.

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Homelessness Myth #7: "Oh, No! A Transient!"

Christine Schanes | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Homeless People, Residency, Living Section, Homelessness, Living on the Streets, Transiency, Transient, Myth, Christine Schanes, Healthy Living News
Christine Schanes

It's time to stop using the word, "transient," to refer to homeless people. How should we refer to people without homes? Just that way... we can say, "people without homes, "homeless people."

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Homelessness Myth #8: One Size Fits All

Christine Schanes | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Mentally Ill, Transitional Housing, Permanent Supportive Housing, Homelessness, Physically Disabled, Homeless, Living Section, Tanya Tull, Handicapped, Homeless Solutions, Myth, Myths, Christine Schanes, Healthy Living News
Christine Schanes

As homelessness in the United States increased dramatically, some social service agencies created short-term homeless emergency shelters and transitional housing facilities to house homeless people.

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Homelessness Myth #9: It Will Never End

Christine Schanes | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: North County Solutions for Change, Homelessness, Causes, Hannah Cohen, Homeless Families, Homeless Family, Homeless People, Homeless Person, Homeless Children, Myth, Chris Megison, Myths, Christine Schanes, Video, Healthy Living News
Christine Schanes

I suggest that we use the expression that is often used when speaking about resolving the enormous issue of global warming, "think globally and act locally," to encourage local solutions.

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Saint Patrick and the Snakes

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011 | Religion
Read More: Guinness Stout, Snake, Patrick, Saint Patricks Day, Arthur-Guinness, Saint Patrick, Guinness, Snake Tattoos, St Patrick, Tattoo, Druids, Symbolism, Druidism, Myth, Saint Patrick Snakes, Snakes, Chris Weigant, Banning Snakes, Proselytizing, Mythology, Christianity, Patron Saint, Ireland, Conversion, Tattoos, Irish, Eire, Druidic, Padraig, Druid, Religion News
Chris Weigant

By bringing Christianity to so many of the Irish people, Patrick was a major instrument of Christianity supplanting the Druids. And, by doing so, Patrick "drove the snakes into the sea" in a metaphorical way.

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Elizabeth Warren and Goliath

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Market, Fundamentalism, Elizabeth Warren, Economy, Middle Class, Main Street, Debt, Pastors, Economic, Methodist, America, Conservative, Bailout, Common Good, Values, Bonus, Great Recession, Security, Human Nature, History, Shame, Greed, System, Moral Compass, Repentance, Economics, Money, Jesus, Politics, Tradition, Economic System, Community, Congress, Rediscovering Values, Interview, Corporations, Moral Values, Great Depression, Myth, Free Market Fundamentalism, Wall Street, Application, Ceo, Faith Community, Prosperity, Crisis, Credit Card, Depression, Mammon, Business News
Jim Wallis

As Elizabeth Warren, a good Methodist, warns: The banks are trying everything they can think of to kill financial reform. And we must not let them do that.

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Diamonds Are a God's Best Friend

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Diamonds, Religion, Myth, God, De Beers, Gullibility, Healthy Living News
Jeff Schweitzer

Diamonds are not rare. Diamonds are not valuable. Diamonds are not naturally in demand. But the big diamond scam is child's play compared to the biggest PR success of all time: religion.

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9/11 and birther misperceptions in NJ

Brendan Nyhan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: 9/11, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Birther, Misperception, Myth, Truther, Pollster, Politics News
Brendan Nyhan

Back in August, I created this plot showing the parallels in partisan misperceptions about President Bush (a 9/11 conspiracy) and President Obama (not...

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NBC's flawed health care misperception poll

Brendan Nyhan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Death Panels, Health Care, Misperception, Myth, Poll, Pollster, Politics News
Brendan Nyhan

NBC released a health care poll (PDF) last night that deputy political director Mark Murray summarized in an article with the subhed "Misperceptions a...

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9/11 and birther misperceptions compared

Brendan Nyhan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: 9/11, Bush, Obama, Birth Certificate, Conspiracy, Misperception, Myth, Pollster, Politics News
Brendan Nyhan

Since the release of a Daily Kos/Research 2000 poll showing that 28% of Republicans believe President Obama was not born in this country, Chris Matthe...

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Debunking the Entrepreneurship Myth

Krisztina 'Z' Holly | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Krisztina Holly, Myth, Raj Aggarwal, Vivek Wadhwa, Entreprenuership, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Business News
Krisztina 'Z' Holly

My colleagues and I decided to investigate the folklore of entrepreneurship, and ended up debunking some of the more pervasive myths surrounding it.

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Disturbing poll on beliefs about Obama's birth

Brendan Nyhan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Muslim, Obama, Birth Certificate, Misperception, Myth, Pollster, Politics News
Brendan Nyhan

As Emily notes, a new Daily Kos-sponsored poll from Research 2000 finds that only 77% of Americans, and 42% of Republicans, believe Obama was born in ...

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Darfur: Media, Myth, and Attic Fire

Ashley Rindsberg | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Al Gore, Ethnic Cleansing, Darfur, Obama, Peace, Murder, Oprah Winfrey, Myth, Khartoum, Famine, Genocide, Oprah, New York Times, Libya, Sudan, Un, Global Warming, Bashir, World News
Ashley Rindsberg

Even with availability of relief in the form of foodstuff, medicine, and fresh water, people in Darfur are dying -- being murdered -- on a scale never before seen in that region.

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Myth America

Diana Meehan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Mccain, Obama, Myth, Hero, Carry Nation, America, Sarah Palin, George W. Bush, Politics News
Diana Meehan

The narrative McCain promotes is a well-known myth of the American West: small town is threatened by outsiders from the Eastern establishment, corrupt and dangerous outlaws and craven townspeople.

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