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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,”… Continue reading

  • 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 Continue reading

  • 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].… Continue reading

  • 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… Continue reading

  • 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,… Continue reading

  • 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… Continue reading

  • 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… Continue reading

  • 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… Continue reading

  • 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… Continue reading

  • Secret and Lies of the Bailout | Politics News | Rolling Stone

    It has been four long winters since the federal government, in the hulking, shaven-skulled, Alien Nation-esque form of then-Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, committed $700 billion in taxpayer money to rescue Wall Street from its own chicanery and greed. To listen… Continue reading