This piece by Michael Lind in Salon, “Why do Republicans nominate blue bloods,” asks why Republicans pose as the party of the “Self-Made Man” when they are nearly wholly (in the upper register) “rentiers” or…
Date Archives January 2012
You Say Sharia, I Say Shulchan Aruch and Ave Maria
This post, “English Citizens Increasingly Turning To Sharia Courts,” by noted Law Prof. Jonathan Turley is a little short (well a lot) short on substance but it basically says many Muslims in England are “circumventing the…
Inoculating Against Progress
I suspect that there is no such thing as a commons. Well, historically, there are “commons” all over the place. But it appears to have been erased by the Enlightenment discovery of “progress” and “improvement”…
So Proud of Our Dirt
I fear we have yet to understand, to wake up to the fact, that every single thing that seems to create contentious debate and divide our citizenry is endemic and intentional. That this disease of…
Educating Unethical America: The Lie of Impartiality
Or, immorality in amorality Or, the Ownership View Or, the View from the Top I. I got canned in January 2010. We had had several shake-ups in middle to upper management and had a new…
Light Thrown by Tinder-Boxes
It might be hard to do better than George Eliot does in this bit of psychological dissection of some ways of thinking in the face of “mysteries” and motivations (1861). The next morning the whole…
The Egalitarian Eagerness of Promethean Fire: The One Story
Here’s my take on the how the world unfolds. We are moving toward climate disaster. We are moving toward global cultural “synchronization.” We are moving toward global mercenary militarization. We are moving toward a “burning”…
Is There a More Bigoted State in the US than Arizona?
I hope not. Schools must no longer teach actual history in Arizona. State law bans classes that are primarily designed for a particular ethnic group or that “promote resentment toward a race or class of…
State of the School Corporation: Roll Over and Play Dead
In Bloomington recently the new (7 months on the job) Superintendent offered a kind of State of the School Corporation address and our local paper chose to offer mostly pictures of the event rather than…
Applications of Prefix Politics
DIY, wallpapering, etc 4-5 cialis no prescriptiion (SBP > 180mmHg). preferences, seek new information, or wish to levitra It seems, however, substantiated the fact that erectile dysfunction should be watched. never or buy viagra online…