Recall this from Kropotkin: throughout the history of our civilization, two traditions, two opposing tendencies have confronted each other: the Roman and the Popular; the imperial and the federalist; the authoritarian and the libertarian. Now,…
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The Lords and Owners of Their Faces
Today I read another “Privatization is good” piece in our local paper. It is claimed there that selling our public roads is a brilliant maneuver in managing budget shortfalls. As this isn’t argued, detailed or…
Fronting Intervention: Using Invisible Children to Sell War to Children
You know, don’t you, that you have to invite vampires into your home or they are not capable of entering, or better, they are forbidden to enter by some kind of law that governs the…
Counter-Balancing Propaganda–Does It Matter?
If, as our bleeding edge neuroscience computer-techs tell us, we are prone to believe in one or another political morality without need of empirical evidence, which might be called, in a simplified manner, the tribe…
Summer Camps and Business Plans: Finance over Frolick
Sadly, for me anyway, my stupid brain keeps repeating a high school cheer heard by me at least 30 years ago, probably more, that, at the very least, plagues me to this day by popping…
Local Instruction in National Pieties: “Wasting Seed Corn”
Editors Note: There is too much to say. And it’s all already been said, written, sung, screamed. Beginning on September 11 and continuing through September 20 the Herald-Times has printed 19 items that reference the…
Local Errant: Re-Habitat for Humanity Or Leave Those Trees Alone
(Update below) Gertrude Stein said, “a rose is a rose is a rose” (a rose arose?)…she also said “Birds measure birds measure stores birds measure stores measure birds measure,” and “Weeds without papers are necessary.” …
Evaluating Valuation: Millions for Business and Games, Hundreds for Kids
I will give props where due even if what I’m giving props about is unintentional. In today’s HT on page A3 there are two stories headlined and their juxtaposition will tell you all you need…
Unrepresentative–HT Sides with GOP While Our Community Suffers
Opening the Herald Times this morning brought frustrating political and fiscal news as well as a deeply wrong-headed editorial. Where to begin? Local Income Tax Revenue to drop in ’12: well, there’s a shocker though…
Radical Reading–Against Preemptive Killing
HT headline today: Prosecutor’s office rules police shooting justified. Article details of note: Though the prosecutor’s office has ruled, the police are investigating themselves. Lt. William Parker is charged with this. The man, Richard North,…