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The Ones-at-Large

  • Your Own Historical Jesus

    Who was the historical Jesus of Nazareth? What did he actually say and do, as contrasted with what early Christians (e.g., Paul and the Gospel writers) believed that he said and did? What did the man Jesus actually think of… Continue reading

    Your Own Historical Jesus

  • Joined-to or Joined-with the Education Complex?

    An update of a post I made two years ago before I decided to go all in and get my MA and PhD: Lunch time and my thoughts turn to all of my friends who are independent scholars. Many of… Continue reading

    Joined-to or Joined-with the Education Complex?

  • Chaos Counseling

    Of course I practice Chaos Magick–what do you think AnarchoCynicism is other than the socio-political expression of something that is a profound F*CK YOU to all institutional power? The fact that I have a nihilistic character that dresses like a… Continue reading

    Chaos Counseling

  • A Raised Hand | the New Yorker

    “Dorothy Giunta-Cotter knew that someday her husband, William, would kill her. They met in 1982, when he was twenty and she was fifteen: a girl with brown eyes and cascading dark hair. Over the course of twenty years, he had… Continue reading

  • Article: The Rise of People Living Alone Has Led to More Sustainable Cities

    Whatever you want to call people living alone — some go with solos, others singletons — the fact is there’s a lot more of them than there used to be. In 1950, solos accounted for about 9 percent of all… Continue reading

  • 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

    How to Spot Propaganda

  • Irrationality: Factual Fictions

    irrational (adj.) late 15c., “not endowed with reason” (of beats, etc.); earlier (of quantities) “inexpressible in ordinary numbers” (late 14c.); from Latin irrationalis “without reason,” from assimilated form of in- “not, opposite of” (see in- (1)) + rationalis “reason” (see rational). Meaning “illogical, absurd” is attested from 1640s. via etymonline.com… Continue reading

    Irrationality: Factual Fictions

  • Pseudo-Modernism

    An interesting entry from Alan Kirby at the British magazine Philosophy Now. Very well worth the read, and I hope it will spawn a few thoughts from me on the Society of Control. Let’s see what happens. …Postmodernism conceived of contemporary… Continue reading

    Pseudo-Modernism

  • A Superhero Who Looks Like My Son | NYTimes.com

    …Superheroes had taught me that anything was possible. There was nothing more American. I wished China had comic book stores. Because he was born in Ethiopia and came to us as a stumbling, almost walking baby, I was especially disappointed… Continue reading

  • The Maybe-Logic of Reality Tunnels| R.A.W.

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    The Maybe-Logic of Reality Tunnels| R.A.W.

  • McDonalds to Workers: Your Best Budget Includes A Second Job

    McDonalds has partnered with Visa to launch a website to help its low-wage workers making an average $8.25 an hour to budget. But while the site is clearly meant to illustrate that McDonalds workers should be able to live on… Continue reading

    McDonalds to Workers: Your Best Budget Includes A Second Job

  • When Did I Stop Wanting to Be President?

    Originally an essay, here Burroughs answers the question talking about his boyhood and early flirtations with the idea of political power, describing a potential panorama of a glorious career as a commissioner…. Related articles Naked Lunch (myoldaddiction2.wordpress.com) William S. Burroughs:… Continue reading

    When Did I Stop Wanting to Be President?

  • George Zimmerman, Propriety, and Losing Way

    Got up this morning and began looking through the reactions about the George Zimmerman acquittal. As usual, Charles P. Pierce over at Esquire magazine’s Politics Blog caught my eye… Thought experiments are useless now. Of course, if the races of… Continue reading

    George Zimmerman, Propriety, and Losing Way

  • Big-Food’s Impact on the South: A View from Brazil

      Traditional long-established food systems and dietary patterns are being displaced in Brazil and in other countries in the South (Africa, Asia, and Latin America) by ultra-processed products made by transnational food corporations (“Big Food” and “Big Snack”).This displacement increases… Continue reading

    Big-Food’s Impact on the South: A View from Brazil

  • Babich: Van Gogh’s Museum and the Temple at Bassae

    A colleague at Fordham University, Babette Babich, who I highly respect, has been updating her articles at academia.edu. Among these is the article linked below. As I have been posting a lot of my favorite paintings as well as some… Continue reading

    Babich: Van Gogh’s Museum and the Temple at Bassae

  • 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

    THE NEW SODOM

  • Any excuse to use excessive force

    Because any infraction of the law deserves complete, over the top violent response from a paramilitary police force. Ladies and gentleman, the panopticon and your tax dollars at work in the Society of Control… Police have justified this sort of… Continue reading

    Any excuse to use excessive force

  • Lookout: Extreme Profiling

    It should be clear to folks by now this was not a vendetta against Tea Baggers and those who rant & rave against Obama and/or Obamacare. This is just another form of surveillance by profiling. Obviously we should think of… Continue reading

    Lookout: Extreme Profiling