current-events
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Always some other’s fault
Rather than deal with our own inadequacies, Americans seek some other to blame. Continue reading
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How the Republican party quietly does the bidding of white supremacists
The lesson from Charlottesville is not how dangerous the neo-Nazis are. It is the unmasking of the Republican party leadership. In the wake of last weekend’s horror and tragedy, let us finally, finally rip off the veneer that Trump’s affinity… Continue reading
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The Myth of Welfare Queens and the Reality of Racism
Fiscal conservative politicians including some Democrats like Bill Clinton have presided over a massive and systematic redistribution of wealth into the 1 percent since the 1980s. For African-Americans this means that we lost over half of our collective and meager… Continue reading
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The Confidential Memo at the Heart of the Global Financial Crisis | VICE United Kingdom
The whole sorry thing is both depressing and infuriating… When a little birdie dropped the End Game memo through my window, its content was so explosive, so sick and plain evil, I just couldn’t believe it. The Memo confirmed every… Continue reading
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Ripping Off of Young America: The College Loan Scandal
Good investigative piece from Matt Taibbi and well worth your time. If you are not sure, just read these few paragraphs and decide if you can afford to not read the whole article. …How is this happening? It’s complicated. But… Continue reading
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Mysterious Dancing Lights In Afghanistan
This isn’t a painting. It’s not from a movie. It’s not a strange astronomical event. This is real — what you can see when certain helicopters in Afghanistan touch down on sandy ground, raising dust, causing mysterious arcs of light… Continue reading
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“You look like a cocaine dealer” | YouTube
Bill O’Reilly to Prof. Marc Lamont Hill… egads. At least Dr. Hill gets O’Reilly to admit to being a coke head. 🙂 Related articles The Sad Reality of White-on-White Violence (keithwaynebrown.com) Racial Profiling, Racial Stereotypes, and the Irrationality Of White Supremacy… Continue reading
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Doubling McDonald’s Salaries Would Cause Your Big Mac To Cost Just 68¢ More: Study
McDonald’s can afford to pay its workers a living wage without sacrificing any of its low menu prices, according to a new study provided to The Huffington Post by a University of Kansas student. Doubling the salaries and benefits of… Continue reading
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Interview with Matt Bors: Drawing Terrible Things Without Causing Despair | Truthout
Truthout has been publishing Matt Bors‘ cartoons for more than a year now, and we’re not the only ones who have taken notice of him. Bors has won awards for his editorial cartooning including the Herblock Prize and the Society… Continue reading
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How to Spot Propaganda
propaganda (n.) 1718, “committee of cardinals in charge of Catholic missionary work,” short for Congregatio de Propaganda Fide “congregation for propagating the faith,” a committee of cardinals established 1622 by Gregory XV to supervise foreign missions. The word is properly… Continue reading
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Daodejing 2
#2* Under-heaven all know the reason why the beautiful is beautiful: the existence of the ugly; All know the reason why the good is the good: the existence of the bad. Therefore, to-be and To-not-be beget One another, Difficulty and… Continue reading
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How to Spot a Sociopath | The Daily Beast
Yesterday, while I was watching George Zimmerman’s interview from last year with Sean Hannity, I began asking myself, “How do you spot a sociopath?” M. E. Thomas describes herself as a cutthroat attorney who sailed through law school without much… Continue reading
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Hunger Games, U.S.A. | Paul Krugman
…So House Republicans voted to maintain farm subsidies — at a higher level than either the Senate or the White House proposed — while completely eliminating food stamps from the bill. To fully appreciate what just went down, listen to… Continue reading
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THE NEW SODOM
I am utterly disgusted by this. Last year, at the Colorado state high-school wrestling tournament, three upperclassmen from Norwood cornered a 13-year-old boy on an empty school bus, bound him with duct tape and sodomized him with a pencil. Two… Continue reading
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American Freedom
I recently reposted this picture to my Facebook which had been making the rounds. It drew a lot of comments and got rereposted. In his response, my good friend and fellow pedagog John F. recommended me one of his favorite… Continue reading
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This Image Should NOT be Seen by the Whole World | How to be an Anthropologist
I find the Facebook meme distressing, not because of the Belo Monte Dan Project, but because the author and all of the people who share it have fed into and bolstered (even if unknowingly) a narrative that depicts indigenous people… Continue reading
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Getting rich off of schoolchildren – Salon.com
Thanks as always to John F. for pointing out a piece that I missed. Sirota delivers some good insights… standard operating procedure with him. It simply strains credulity to insist that pedagogues who get paid middling wages but nonetheless devote… Continue reading
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The Three Horsemen of the MOOCpocaplypse
A small foray into the political after a few weeks of mostly concentrating on spirituality. But not too far in as my concern is prompted by my contemplation. I want to thank my good brother Lance W. for pointing out… Continue reading
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