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  • More response to the New York Times’ Latest Irritating Analysis of the Hipster

    Another reaction to Wampole’s diagnosis of overly tragic irony among Millenials that nicely bookends the other response I posted yestereve. If the prototypical highly educated, white, 20-something city dweller is a skinny dude in a vintage Stryper T-shirt with elaborate facial hair, then The New York Times is the used-to-be-cool…

  • The relationship between direct speech and philosophical inquiry « Andrew Taggart

    I was privileged to have Andrew Taggart share an early copy of his new manual The Art of Inquiry. I highly recommend this 21 st century enchiridion to everyone who would like to take up philosophizing as a way of life. Here in his latest blog entry, Andrew elucidates the import…

  • New Pew Survey of U.S. Parents

    While European legislators are considering adding a ‘right to be forgotten’ to data privacy laws to give internet users some control over who owns their data, U.S. parents are worried about the reputational damage of their teens’ online activities and what advertisers are learning about them, according to a new report…

  • Shake It Up « Lateral Love Australia

    Thanks to Lateral Love Australia for posting this wonderful quote from Ghandi.  Shake It Up « Lateral Love Australia.

  • a millenial response to being accused of “irony”

    I posted Christy Wampole’s piece on Millenials and the great issue she takes with them: they are too ironic. I argued that I thought she was missing something, but I did not go too deeply into why. This wonderful response by a Millenial goes far beyond anything I would have…

  • Camille Paglia, George Lucas, & the Work of Art

    Thanks to my beautiful friend Joy Harris who told me about this article. Time to pull out my own writings on this and dust them off. Who is the greatest artist of our time? Normally, we would look to literature and the fine arts to make that judgment. But Pop…

  • Fracking and the Fate of the Earth? A Response

    A nice response from my colleague Adam Briggle to the piece I posted earlier, “America’s Secret Fracking War.” Ellen Cantarow has a piece out in Salon today titled “America’s Secret Fracking War.” I wish there was a good word for hyperbole in the fracktionary – “frackerbole” sounds dumb, so does the…

  • The end of the university « Andrew Taggart

    Nice meditation on a favorite subject of mine: where exactly higher education may be going in the globalized Society of Control. Taggart asks some good questions and is moving toward an intriguing elucidation: …any serious threat to the status quo may do more than show that it presents a novel…

  • How to Live Without Irony – NYTimes.com

    Thanks to Andrew J. Taggart for pointing out this entry to the Stone blog at NYTimes.com. A good read. Not sure I agree with the whole premise. In my view, while Millenials do  present a lot of irony (at least in their hipster variation), the irony itself is ironic. I…

  • America’s secret fracking war – Salon.com

    There’s a war going on that you know nothing about between a coalition of great powers and a small insurgent movement.  It’s a secret war being waged in the shadows while you go about your everyday life. In the end, this conflict may matter more than those in Iraq and…

  • Today’s Sunset

  • Very good advice on which carbs to embrace and which to avoid.

  • Prelude to Pralines « No ‘FRIES’ for 365

    I am really encouraged at how many folks are making use of blogging to announce and follow through on attempting new things in their lives and changing behaviors toward the ‘good life’. This good fellow Jason @ ‘No Fries for 365‘  started following me today, and I have already picked…

  • Wall Street Banks Seeking to Confuse Democratic Networks

    This is a very important bit of investigative journalism coming out of TruthOut.org right now. Let me attempt again to make the basic facts clear.  Third Way is not a “liberal think tank.”  It does not take “a centrist approach.”  It is not run by “fellow progressives.”  It is not…

  • Lose Weight « Give me 5 minutes a day and I’ll give you a happier, more successful life!

    As someone who always struggled with weight issues, I find this a very helpful overview of getting the head into a space that the body will not only follow but enjoy being there. I suppose we all agree that in order to lose weight we need to eat less and…

  • BBC – Adam Curtis Blog: WHILE THE BAND PLAYED ON

    If you enjoyed that Adam Curtis piece I put up earlier, you should def check out his blog and look at the stuff he gets up to… I have always been fascinated by the way music can completely change the way you watch film – and how you feel as…

  • Philosophizing & Inspiration

    Because I spend so much time being concerned that philosophizing as a way of life is about helping folks figure out how to live better lives, many professional philosophers do not think I am a “philosopher.” I am cool with that, believe me. While inspirational materials can sometimes become a…

  • Urban Wall Art & Murals

    Some really great pieces over @ Urban Wall Art & Murals. All you folks of the Ether should pop over and check it out.