Monthly Archives: June 2013

love after love – Derek Walcott


Love After Love – Derek Walcott reading by Tom O’Bedlam The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other’s welcome, and say, … Continue reading

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PWLE – WTF?


What is this term “PWLE”  anyhoo? “Person With Lived Experience” I guess folks who use it think they are being respectful. Well, I say it’s  bollocks. And it’s high time someone did . .Why? Let’s examine its components… Person – … Continue reading

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The Defuckulator – Billy Connolly


Billy Connolly invents The Defuckulator Continue reading

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Pill Poppers


BBC Horizon documentary about our relationship with tiny little tablets of crushed powder that seem to have magical properties. It also says a lot about our society’s magical belief in the power of Doctors and scientists to fix everything that … Continue reading

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what is to give light…


Victor Emil Frankl discovered a thing or two about what it takes to endure the most un-endurable circumstances and to find our way through…

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Inner Ninja – Classified ft David Myles


Nobody’s gonna see me comin’ Nobody’s gonna hear a sound No matter how hard they tryin’ No stoppin’ me since I’ve found My inner ninja thanks to 9ft Ninja Kiwi for this one… . “Inner Ninja” (feat. David Myles) I … Continue reading

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I need some fine wine and you, you need to be nicer – The Cardigans


bad dog Sit “I Need Some Fine Wine And You, You Need To Be Nicer” Sit, good dog, stay, bad dog, down, roll over Well here’s a good man and a pretty young girl Trying to play together somehow, I’m … Continue reading

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my love ain’t the kind – Thomas Ribeiro


           

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Dying By Prescription: Oxycontin controversy


  Global TV’s  Current affairs show 16×9 [Canada]  Published on Aug 22, 2012 Part 1 – Oxycotin was touted as a miracle, pain relief with few side effects and less addictive than morphine. Soon it was the most prescribed drug in … Continue reading

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Bad Bad Bad: how drug companies mislead doctors – Ben Goldacre


Dr Ben Goldacre is a physician, psychiatrist and epidemiologist; writer, broadcaster and really fast TEDtalker. He was in Toronto publicising his new book Bad Science in Feb, here he is in interview with Anna Maria Tremonte on CBC’s The Current from … Continue reading

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