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  • The Pay-‘Em-or-Lose-‘Em Myth

    There was a time when I thought the arguments given for ever rising executive compensation were all examples of the slippery slope. Stupid me! I now realize that they are examples of a false dichotomy. How is it that I was missing the either…or… structure of these statements over the…

  • Art Takes Miami

    Looking for artist submissions to Art Takes Miami competition. Deadline is Sep 30.

  • Schumpeter: The magic of good service | The Economist

    An interesting development within the Society of Control‘s turn from “productivism” to “solutionism.” A new book helps explain why this is happening. In “Outside In”, Harley Manning and Kerry Bodine of Forrester Research, a consultancy, observe that customers are growing more powerful. The internet makes it easier to shop around…

  • Textimony 20120923

    Attend. Adjust. Acknowledge: Unhindered by regret, this WAY lets-go the insolence reposing within success & embraces the humility residing within failure

  • The Method of the Moon Bridge

    The Moon was one of humankind’s first measures for time. Thus, to this day the word “month” recalls that original measurement. “Moon” itself probably arises from a variation of the Indo-European term “me-” which is also the root for “to measure” and “to mean,” thus related to “mind,” as the…

  • The Fox News & the Hedgehog Syndrome

    It very well could be that I am drawing a hasty generalization. But I have been watching politics closely for 30 years. Since the 1996 campaign, I have seen an interesting phenomenon: Democrats spent a lot of time trying to convince non-Democrats they should change their minds; Republicans spent a…

  • Tolkien & Teaching

    In his mythology, Tolkien tells us that the elves crossed the sea in rebellion, and even those who linger yet in Middle Earth do not forget and yearn for a return to their land of origin.  For elves, the sea is a mixed blessing.  In rebellion, many of them crossed it…

  • Feast of Fools: How American Democracy Became the Property of a Commercial Oligarchy

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions The ritual performance of the legend of democracy in the autumn of 2012 promises the conspicuous consumption of $5.8 billion, enough money, thank God, to prove that our flag is still there. Forbidden the use of words apt to depress a Q Score or…

  • Blame Fox News, not Mitt

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions “The truth is that Romney is constantly constrained by what conservatives want him to do and by what they believe. Furthermore, what they want is generally unpopular, and what they believe is far too often simply cut off from the reality that the rest…

  • UnCollege Hackademic Camp

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions This fall, from October 26th – 28th 2012, ten of the brightest young minds from around the world will come together for one weekend to get a boost on solving the world’s biggest problem in education. It’s an intense weekend human accelerator. They will…

  • Zen Story: Harmony | Buddha Groove

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions See on www.buddhagroove.com

  • Apartheid Never Died in South Africa: It Inspired a World Order Upheld by Force and Illusion

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions John Pilger discusses how the murder of 34 miners by the South African police reveals the new worldwide apartheid of which South Africa is both an historic and contemporary model. See on truth-out.org

  • The Meaning of “Personal Responsibility” – A Buddhist Response to Mitt Romney

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions See on www.theidproject.org

  • How Not To Write Comics Criticism // Dyl

    How Not To Write Comics Criticism // Dylan Meconis http://ow.ly/dSboO

  • Half of US social program recipients believe they

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions “Reconstituting the Submerged State: The Challenges of Social Policy Reform in the Obama Era,” a paper by Cornell’s Clinton Rossiter Professor of American Institutions Suzanne Mettler features this remarkable chart showing that about half of American… See on boingboing.net

  • Everyone shoots first: reality in the age of Instagram | The Verge

    There are over five and a half billion cell phones in the world, nearly all equipped with cameras: an orgy of recording of life as it passes. Our age has seen an explosion of this peculiarly human activity — recording activity — on a scale scarcely comprehensible even by those…

  • Paradoxoi

    A nice overview of diverse (and often famous) paradoxes. Home page | Some paradoxes – an anthology.

  • Pedagogy by Carrot

    The majority of students today expect assignments with finite parameters, clear grading paths, and a checklist of things they can tick off to get an A. “Pick my own topic for an essay? What do you mean by that? What topic do you want me to pick? Is there a…