Posted in anthropology, current events, pseudo-science, religion on Dec 5th, 2006 No Comments »
Wouldn’t you like to ride in my beautiful balloon
Wouldn’t you like to ride in my beautiful balloon
We could float among the stars together, you and I
For we can fly we can fly
Up, up and away
My beautiful, my beautiful balloon
The world’s a nicer place in my beautiful balloon
It wears a nicer face in my beautiful balloon
We […]
Posted in current events, politics on Nov 8th, 2006 No Comments »
DailyKos highlights positions taken by Burns & Allen (!) in the aftermath of the Florida Fiasco six years ago.
Posted in current events, politics on Nov 8th, 2006 No Comments »
Ohio’s voice rang loud and clear yesterday.
Posted in current events, politics on Nov 8th, 2006 No Comments »
For three years straight we toured the nation
When we get through we needed a vacation
We wanted to party and get a little rest
So we packed our things and headed out west
We got our surfboards took the beachball out
Jumped in a limosuine ready to wipeout
Now were ready to go
Here we go here we go
One one two […]
Posted in current events, politics on Nov 6th, 2006 No Comments »
If the election tomorrow is about Iraq, it’s also about a nation of citizen armchair geopolitical strategists making up their minds. Yup, each of us indulges our hunch about the war and for some of us this sense will be decisive. Presumably a vote to sustain Republican majorities in the Congress endorses the continued effort […]
Posted in civic intelligence, current events, politics on Nov 5th, 2006 No Comments »
I’m wondering if Joy Benedict at WKYC prepared a piece about a film she didn’t see. If she did, this would make her a shill for Diebold on WKYC’s payroll.
Posted in current events, politics on Nov 4th, 2006 No Comments »
It will be politics in the run-up to what I guarantee you will be the messiest election yet (more later) in the post-election reform era. (By all means ask yourself why post-reform elections aren’t cleaner than pre-reform elections.)
On November 1st WKYC Channel 3, an NBC affiliate owned by Gannett, ran the following piece by Joy […]
Posted in critical culture, current events, politics on Nov 3rd, 2006 No Comments »
(Three: Richard Grossinger, Lewis Lapham, Frank Rich; the tell like it is trio.)
Anthropologist Richard Grossinger; excerpt from the single best book–imo–about the post 9/11 cosmos, On the Integration of Nature. Post-9/11 Biopolitical Notes
Many years from now, when the consequences of this regime are known, America will be a full-fledged Third World country, a rust-belt mega-slum […]
Posted in current events, dr. puck riffs, humor, politics on Oct 31st, 2006 No Comments »
I’m a political junky. Over the years I’ve tried to keep politics out of the explorations here, but the personal is the political. I’ve thought about a political blog too, although the world probably doesn’t need another lefty blog. Far lefty in my case for I am a fabian, a digger, a radical humanist, and, […]
Posted in current events, experiential learning, politics, teaching cartoons on Oct 27th, 2006 No Comments »
From a tale of the Mulla Nasruddin, I visualize the real political problem.
Posted in critical culture, current events, sustainability on Oct 26th, 2006 No Comments »
it is quite possible for commonsense to join with an iconoclastic mission. My friend Alan Kuper, the father of a junior high classmate of forty years ago, and a retired professor of electrical engineering, is on such a mission. At the same time, his approach is commonsensical: he has devised a system of […]
Posted in current events, dr. puck riffs, language, social psychology on Oct 25th, 2006 No Comments »
From a perspective of what language can and cannot accomplish, and especially from the perspective concerned with the dynamics of cognitive relation to persuasive language over time, the effort of the Cheney Inc. to push “stay the course” back in the box is fascinating.
Maureen Dowd is pithy:
The Bushes don’t connect words with action. Action is […]
Posted in current events, dr. puck riffs, economics, politics on Jun 4th, 2005 No Comments »
Underneath the complex clashes of the cultural war are very interesting conundrums which do not yield to superficial criticism. For example, any cost/benefit analysis used to rationalize real harm supports a dry ’scientism’ unhooked from morality. From the other side, this same problem arises in most presumptions of primary substantive principles. With this, the cost/benefit […]
Posted in critical culture, current events, modern views, politics on Apr 25th, 2005 No Comments »
We shall examine whether the perennial anxiety that accompanies imperial hegemony in the New World might be a compensatory gesture for the originary Ishmaelite fate of castoffs relentlessly clamoring for re-integration into the mainline genealogical history as the chosen people. In the insistent regularity with which those serviceable simplicities of self-identity reify, essentialize, and globalize […]
Posted in current events, dr. puck riffs on Mar 24th, 2005 No Comments »
Elsewhere I am likely to make personal comments about world events. I make an exception this evening here. The Schiavo case is for me, a phenomonologist with archetypal leanings, the bookend to Gibson’s The Passion of Christ. In The Passion, relentless suffering of the sancrosanct object The Christ; in the flesh and blood of T.S. […]
Posted in current events, politics on Mar 10th, 2005 No Comments »
Well, how about this: the idea that within the US administration there are rogue tentacles that go around the world doing exactly the same but almost entirely out of any centralized control system? To me, that is even scarier.
To me too. Well put, Helena.
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