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Dan Mage

Dan Mage

living in Denver, CO
   
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TOTAL VIEWS: 3,719|PUBLISHED CONTENT: 23|FAVORITED BY: 16|CONTENT PRODUCER SINCE: 12/21/2007

I was born 1959 in New York City, grew up in the Washington DC area, moved to Colorado in 1985, and went to Prison in 1995. I discharged my parole on 7/1/08. I now have have several works in progress, including a prison memoir.

Education/Experience: GED, 2 years at Naropa U. in Boulder, CO

Interests: Music, Art, Literature, Politics, Philosophy, Psychology.

Motto: Don't do it, there's always a rational alternative.

Affiliations: FreneticMemetics.com, Libertarian Party, Stop the Drug War (DRCnet)

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There are drawbacks to therapies involving any benzodiazepine, including clonazepam. There is a reason benzodiazepine are still a major part of psychiattric medication regines; they work
I feel that things are better now than they were in the '80s and '90s, in spite of how grim the picture sometimes appears. Some of my views are selfishly based on my own interests, and those of my eco...
All the public outcry against the Myanmar junta will not change the ugly realities of opium, heroin, life and death in The Golden Triangle. The media at this time remains strangely silent about the in...
Colorado for Equal Rights is asking voters to support an amendment to the State Constitution defining "personhood" as beginning at the moment of conception. This is definitely a "hot button" campaign ...
Obama supporter claim that Barack Obama is the target of numerous attacks based on falsehoods and distortions. Obama for America and Fight the Smears are fighting back.
The systems of large-group behavioral manipulation and control utilized by authoritarian structures are fundamentally anti-human in intent, practice and effect. "Industrial Psychology" developed along...
There are millions of disaffected and disenfranchised voices waiting to be heard. We are here among the poor, the working and middle classes. The heroes that we choose and the candidates we support fi...
Avril Lavigne has always been similar to Joan Jett, in music and in overall style. Now, with her cover of Joan Jett's "Bad Reputation," she acknowledges her debt to a girl-punk pioneer.
In the mainstream media and online, people argue as if there are significant differences between the American Democratic and Republican parties. The agenda promoted by both parties is authoritarian, a...
Many (including this author) consider some of Ayn Rand's view's to be extreme and distorted. However, on the issue of faith and force, her insights are needed now more than ever.
systematic disinformation plays such a large role in what we see, how we react, spend our money and who we end up voting for. The control, manipulation, distortion and outright fabrication of informat...
A fundamentally distorted and perverse value system, which values power and privilege over basic human rights, increases the abuse of women and children. Political and economic dysfunction increase th...
Mental illnesses, as defined by the DSM-IV, could easily include non-violent resistance to the social order and other political deviations. Current diagnostic standards are vague, subjective and polit...
The only consistent quality of any of these candidates is their desire to win the election. Furthermore, while they dispute specific issues, both conservatives and liberals side primarily with big bus...
"At best, behavior modification results in temporary token changes by the criminal." (Samenow, 1984, pp 199, 200)
Profiting from the suffering and death of others is far from illegal; it is simply a matter of licensing. The issue has never been "Who Suffers?" but "Who Profits?"
Hydrocodone is a relatively safe and very effective narcotic analgesic. As with all opiates, it is not without its risks and side effects.
My experience with clonazepam is that it is a very useful, but also potentially dangerous and addictive drug. Substance abusers and the mentally ill should approach this drug with caution.
Objectivist philosopher Ayn Rand, a figure now vilified and ridiculed by the left, and religious conservatives of nearly all creeds, nonetheless had some interesting ideas here and there. One of her m...
The combined effects of prisons, militaristic and totalitarian treatment programs, and politically manufactured hysteria do more damage to drug users than drugs alone could ever do.
Ron Paul's candidacy has brought the concept of libertarianism into the nation's political consciousness. His courage and honesty does not cut through the lack of perspective shown by both his critics...
Just as some refer to the counterculture erroneously as "the drug culture," Dr. Reginald Ray labeled the culture of corporate America as "The Caffeine Culture."
Substantial prison sentence produce long term psychological and social impairments, which may lead to a life of repeated incarcerations, or a seriously emotionally and socially impaired life on the ou...