OK, not Heaven, almost Heaven. West Virginia to be exact, Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River, my home-sweet-home for a few short years. That beautiful dark and dusty state is in the grips of a brutal opioid epidemic. It seems everyone knows at least someone who’s battling an opioid addiction, and everyone else tries…
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RASCAL – Punk in Belfast. As it WAS, as it IS.
RASCAL, A Mini-doc From Cillean Campbell “When punk rock ruled over Ulster, nobody ever had more excitement and fun. Between the bombings and shootings, the religious hatred and the settling of old scores, punk gave everybody a chance to live for one glorious burning moment.” – Joe Strummer, The Clash. RASCAL is a…
RASCAL – Teaser Trailer
Coming 02/09/2017 – RASCAL, A Mini-doc From Cillean Campbell “When punk rock ruled over Ulster, nobody ever had more excitement and fun. Between the bombings and shootings, the religious hatred and the settling of old scores, punk gave everybody a chance to live for one glorious burning moment.” – Joe Strummer, The Clash….
Chatter Episode 3 – Boyd Sleator on Humanism and Religion
Welcome to another episode of Chatter, an interview podcast from The Jist with Josh Hamilton. On today’s show we are talking to Boyd Sleator of Northern Ireland Humanists about his experience finding his way to humanism and his work with Northern Ireland Humanists. If you enjoy the show you can share us on…
Online Abuse Of MP’s Is A Sign Of Public Desperation
Recently there has been a lot of fanfare about the abuse that MPs have been receiving online via social media. Numerous MPs from both sides of the aisle have been complaining about the abuse they received online, with Diane Abbot pointing at racist and sexist attitudes from the right as the cause, whilst…
How Healthy Is Your Tan?
We live in an era of unprecedented health consciousness, as well as an era of unheralded contradiction, driven largely by magazines, newspapers and other media outlets pumping out either what we want to hear or what we are too afraid of to ignore. “Good fats” keep us skinny, drinking beer “prevents cancer”, and…
