Lenin famously asked, “What can be done?” Without following the path of Lenin (!) we must recognize our moments and take our chances as people to speak out, act out, against the tyrannies of entrenched…
Posts Published by Douglas Storm
Being Honest About Knowing Nothing: Who to Read
Hey, a quick note to ask you (while always paying proper attention to your favorite idlers here at the Errant) to bookmark and check in frequently with a few of my favorite writers and thinkers…
More than Markets: “We are Workingmen!”
(Update in the text: Big Food in Schools) I will always admit to an inability to connect point A to point X, Y or Z through the clear delineation of points B through W. I…
The Actions of the Criminal Classes: The Mask of Freedom
“The plague has freed them from the blind impulse to fall under the influence of contemporary laws. The knights, the merchants, the warriors and women, who demand–they each demand a new life.”–Viktor Shklovsky How about…
Organs of Force: Free Market Grifters and Edupreneurs
*Please see footnote at the bottom of this post for a comment about my title choice. Fellow blogger and “education-minded” investigator Steve Hinnefeld suggested I check out the work of Karen Francisco who helms Learning…
Grading for Failure’s Sake
In my recent post “Dear Errant, Advice to the Marks: Always Be Cynical” I proposed that there is no way to understand “the way social life works” (that means cities and states and nations, etc.)…
Dear Errant, Advice for the Marks: Always Be Cynical
If you haven’t seen Glengarry Glen Ross, get thee to your movie outlet of choice (ah, choice) ASAP. (Of course let’s not talk about the Mamet of today, okay?) Briefly, a real estate sales office…
Denial Strata: Economic Geologists and Corporate Industrial Fabrications
You know how sometimes you’re just walking along minding your own Ps and Qs when out of the blue there comes a synchronicity of events that brings a kind of clarity that was formerly “felt”…
Vouchers Redux: The Rhetoric and the Consequences
Surely, if you’re anything like me (don’t admit it if you are!), you must be confronting the idea and fact of school voucher programs from rhetorical and ideological perspectives on offer in the news media…
Errant Eye 8/28: Battle for Most Corrupt – ExxonMobil, Dick Cheney and IU’s Haydn Murray
Title Correction: “Haydn White” should be “Haydn Murray”. (Update to #6 below) This morning’s news round-up from the across the Web: 1) One can only hope Dick Cheney travels outside of the country and is…