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Henry A. Wallace, The Danger of American Fascism
A 1944 piece very much worth consideration by then Vice President Wallace. The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts for others. Dangerous as these people may be, they are not so significant as thousands of…
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I am not all that concerned by athletes being allowed to use steroids and other methods. Whether the use of perfromance enhancers is good or bad, this or that, is beside the point here. At issue is excellence of character. Using PEHs are against the rules; if you want to…
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Originally posted on ABC of Spirit Talk with Carolyn Page : All That Jazz – January George Gershwin – Classical Jazz Rhapsody in Blue Club de Belugas ft. Fred Astaire Puttin’ On The Ritz Electro Jazz Nat King Cole – Let There Be Love Join in and Have Some Fun…! …
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Yay! My buddy Will Hudson’s blog Sitting in the Woods got mentioned here.
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Leaf And Twig Only shadows dare skate across the pond. View original post
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Originally posted on Travels of Bogie did f hh fz a c: Expressionism is one of the most intense, amazing periods of art—for my money. One of the reasons that to see as many of the world’s art museums as possible is high on my bucket list. What make the…
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Originally posted on AvantWhat?: In November, I challenged myself to do the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) task of writing a novel in one month. I have tried this before and failed miserably. This time, I am happy to say, I failed MUCH better! I didn’t write 50K words as…
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Originally posted on WYRD ATTRACTIONS: The effect was more pronounced with diet fruit punch/soda, compared with non-diet versions of the drinks. Meanwhile, researchers found an association between drinking four cups of coffee daily and a 10 percent lower risk of depression. “Our research suggests that cutting out or down on…
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Originally posted on hovercraftdoggy: ‘al fared palace’ by Mohammed Assiri /// Nabataean city, Saudi Arabia Rock hewn Qasr al-Farid tomb at Nabataean city. On an arid plain in northern Saudi Arabia, the forlorn figure of Qasr al-Farid, “the Lonely Castle,” rises four stories tall not far from the center of…
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Nate Silver Clarifies Controversial Gay Identity Remarks In New Reddit AMA Interview
Besides the point that this is how his friends describe him, the notion that ethnicity=morality does not compute for me. Can you unpack that?Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
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Originally posted on Duct Tape and Bubblegum: Photo Courtesy of VLCC India As a continuing reader of Duct Tape & Bubblegum, you’ll become an expert on Meatbagism, but for now, we’d like to reintroduce the subject as it is the axis around which our philosophy rotates. We realize that the…
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Originally posted on The Funambulist: Panopticon plan by Jeremy Bentham (1791) In the last ‘episode’, I was evoking the will of Michel Foucault to be considered as a cartographer. In a text written for the journal Critique (dec 1975), Gilles Deleuze proposes an analysis of the book Surveiller et Punir:…
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Originally posted on The Funambulist: The Trial by Orson Welles (adapted from Franz Kafka’s novel) 1962 The structuralist descriptions established by Michel Foucault about discipline are thought to be well known, especially by architects for who the book has been simplified with images that they can understand. The architectual paradigm…
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