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  • The NRA & the Black Panthers “in dialog”: The Secret History of Guns

    Whether we are Christians or Muslims or nationalists or agnostics or atheists, we must first learn to forget our differences. If we have differences, let us differ in the closet; when we come out in front, let us not have anything to argue about until we get finished arguing with…

  • 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…

  • Staying Alive on the Walls as they Tumble Down

    Staying Alive on the Walls as they Tumble Down

    Thanks to my fellow phenomenologist David K. for passing this along. As a mash up of two very different trends among Boomers, I think it creatively speaks to the situatedness of millenials.

  • 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…

  • More than One Direction in which Millennials Can Thrive

    More than One Direction in which Millennials Can Thrive

    Yestereve, I contemplated so much how today’s youth can survive the world wrought by their parents and grandparents, that I dreamed about it. I especially want to thank my friend Matthew for asking for further clarification. Below you will see a slight variation of my response to him on my…

  • Young people are screwed… Here’s how to survive

    Young people are screwed… Here’s how to survive

    Wow. This is a really good piece that is totally worth a read. And then a reread. And then maybe a further read. If you are someone who entered adulthood in the last few years, you are a Generation Y or Millennial. You have done your part to grow away…

  • 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…

  • 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

  • Standardized Tests Not Justin Bieber are Destroying our Culture

    I do not have kids of my own. But I pay school taxes like anybody else who owns propert or rents an apartment. [Yes, Matilda… if you rent an apartment, a portion of your rent obviously goes to school taxes]. Now, I hear a lot from folks who think that…

  • 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…

  • Mixing Quotes Like DJ Anarchocynic: Einstein, Gandhi, MLK & Thoreau

    Philosophizing can be stupidly long winded. I know from personal experience: I can blather with the best of them (just watch some of my earliest podcasts). Here, I begin collecting some of my favorite short but sweet quotes so you, my good brothers & sisters of the Ether, can see…

  • 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:…

  • 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…

  • I fucking hate capitalism. (Amid conversation as we were walking back from a paper sale at PSU, the comrade I was walking with commented that as we passed them a couple guys had stopped to thoroughly check me out. “It’s the jeans. They’re workin’ for ya.”)– But the reason I…

  • Why Paul Krugman should be President Obama’s pick for US treasury secretary | Mark Weisbrot | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

    I already signed an online petition. You should as well: Nominate Paul Krugman. …for the post of treasury secretary, to replace the outgoing Tim Geithner, Obama could afford to make another bold choice: Paul Krugman. Krugman would be tough to oppose on any substantive grounds. He has a Nobel Prize…