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Date Archives November 2011
Philosophus Agonistes: Thinking Against the State
I’ve been pondering what it is schools do and what it is I can imagine they might do instead. So you might gather from that statement that I do not agree with our current educational…
Managed Democracy and Stalinism: Education Reform From Russia, With Love.
Okay, because schools, I’ve been told, suck, and because Americans, it’s been said, are stupid, and because citizens, it seems, are unaware of the history that has brought us to this point, I will offer…
Mission: School
From a response on a local school “strategies” thread: The current mission statement for the Monroe County Community School Corporation: MISSION We commit to working with our community to deliver an appropriate and safe learning…
Seriously, Just Pay the Vig…Or Else. Schumer Earning His Keep.
Today the HT prints an AP piece that focuses on a proposal (modest?) by one of our many distrusted politicians, Charles Schumer of NY. We distrust Schumer because he is the Senator who receives the…
Drowning in Bathtubs: (Dis)Trusting Public Officials
Before we start, recall that Grover Norquist (best friends with guys like felon Jack Abramoff and moral majority manipulator Ralph Reed, reprehensible thugs of the Machiavellian political underclass), chieftain of corrupt practices masquerading as “tax…
Melancholia: A Lugubrious Apocalyptic
It is a most difficult thing (I confess) to be able to discern these causes whence they are, and in such variety to say what the beginning was. *** Primary causes are the heavens, planets,…
Reading Is (and Is Not) Power
Historically, reading is power. Rather, reading was an activity limited to those in power. The Catholic Church refused to allow the Bible to be translated from the Latin (a Power language of the church) to…
Human Potential, Time Discipline and Post-Edenic Mind
There is only rendering, the rendered, upon which there is thought. This is the basis of our understanding of mind. Ruskin, Freud, Proust…Bernays, Goebbels, Gossage and so on. In one sense there is an undiscovered…
Indicting Western Masculine Tribal Obsessions
Of course, if you’re an American man you’ve already heard, read, posted on your Facebook, something about Joe Paterno’s firing gendererectile and determine the cause. cialis for sale. treatment. The primary care physicians who are…