by Paul Haeder / May 3rd, 2021
How did we ever get to this point … to the point where, as I put it in The Covidian Cult, “instead of the cult existing as an island within the dominant culture, the cult has become the dominant culture, and those of us who have not joined the cult have become the isolated islands within it?”
To understand this, one needs to understand how cults control the minds of their members, because totalitarian ideological movements operate more or less the same way, just on a much larger, societal scale.
I had a job helping people get jobs. Individuals with developmental disabilities. Brain injured, too. That job ended because I sent in a bunch of grievances about hostile work environment, a supervisor who threatened me and yelled at me, and an amazing half year of the most unprofessional work atmosphere I have ever experienced!
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In this age of skepticism, it’s reassuring to know that at least two cherished American myths – Horatio Alger s model of the self-made man and the image of the visionary inventor tinkering in his garage – still exist in the person of Dr. Thomas J. Fogarty. This renowned Irish-American heart surgeon, who started his inventing career as a boy in Cincinnati, is responsible for devices that have revolutionized cardiovascular surgery over the past four decades. His products are credited with making such surgery less threatening to the lives of tens of millions of people.
Fogarty’s first medical invention, the Fogarty… Arterial
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The departed: Heroes, celebrities and rogues, from Oregon and beyond, who died in 2020
Updated Dec 28, 2020;
Posted Dec 28, 2020
Among those we lost in 2020 (clockwise): Retired Lakers basketball star Kobe Bryant, Sisters of the Road co-founder Genny Nelson, former Trail Blazers executive Harry Glickman and sexuality expert Shere Hite.
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2020 has been a rough year, and we’ve lost far too many people along the way.
Below The Oregonian/OregonLive offers up a list, far from exhaustive, of notable Oregonians and other Americans who died in the past 12 months, from the beloved to the notorious. (We also include a few dearly departed from foreign locales who made an impact in the United States).