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November 28, 2012

Ambition, Self-Promotion, & Military Demagoguery

The series will show how Petraeus was engaged from the beginning of the Iraq war in creating a myth about himself as a commander with unique ability to defeat insurgents, that he knew he had failed in his first two… Continue reading

November 27, 2012

Epistemic Closure & the Reality-Based Center

The article below is encouraging to me on many levels. I have feared that I was a Texan committing the Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy. That is where you cherry pick the evidence to meet the conclusion you want to support. So… Continue reading

November 27, 2012

The Ups & Downs of the Afterlife

Okay. I admit that this is one of those things that makes a person laugh out of pure Schadenfreude. Gotta say though… as Candid Camera / Practical Joke TV goes, this Brazilian entry is hilarious. I laughed at the reactions… Continue reading

November 27, 2012

Feeling Sad and Depressed? « beyondclicktivism

Feeling Sad and Depressed? « beyondclicktivism. Continue reading

November 26, 2012

Suddenly Brilliance

A new project between me & my long time writing/thinking partner Angela Drummond Matthews. Check it out. About « Suddenly Brilliance. Continue reading

November 26, 2012

Let them eat cake… for the 21st Century

The corporate CEOs who have made a high-profile foray into deficit negotiations have themselves been substantially responsible for the size of the deficit they now want closed.The companies represented by executives working with the Campaign To Fix The Debt have… Continue reading

November 25, 2012

Stoic Pragmatism // Reviews // Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews // University of Notre Dame

Most of us have heard about that exemplary fool, Molière’s Monsieur Jourdain, who was astonished to discover in middle age that he had been speaking prose all his life. After perusing John Lachs’s wise and lively Stoic Pragmatism, many readers will… Continue reading

November 25, 2012

Lessons for Building a Co-Operative Movement

…John’s life has been steeped in co-operatives. He has been a member for over 30 years in the Heartwood Co-operative Woodshop in Berkeley, CA, where he lives. He has belonged to numerous other co-operatives and collectives. In addition to being… Continue reading

November 21, 2012

The Widening Divide Between Wall Street and Washington | TIME.com

Interesting op/ed at Time.com from the Curious Capitalist. Corporate finance is global. Politics remains local. Situating ourselves within the dialectic betwixt economics & policy is very much an important affair in facing up to the Society of Control & its… Continue reading

November 21, 2012

Sendicate: Reinventing Email Newsletters

Cool idea shared over at Pandodaily on making email newsletters easier & more enticing. There is something really nice about email, and I am happy to see that not everyone is giving up completely on the platform. Last month, I… Continue reading

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