Today I opened my morning paper to discover a very large headline in the “Neighbors/Religion” section (we don’t have time to discuss this formatting decision, focus!): “Would Monroe County vote for a Mormon?” This was…
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Lemons for Lessons: Replacing Childhood with Business Ideology
Apparently it’s time to ramp up the promotion of the propaganda engine that is “Lemonade Day” in America. Today’s Bloomington Herald-Times offers free advertisement for this event and the Powers behind it in the form…
Politics + Interest = Liberty?
Can you discover your own mind in the below from George Eliot and D. H. Lawrence. I’m pretty sure we’re all in there somewhere. From Chapter 51 of Middlemarch. Politics and self-interest in 1871 and…
Elmer’s, Wood, or Crazy? The Glue of Groups
Hot on the heels of my discovery that I am likely a very tiny member of a very tiny minority of people in this country because I find the massive number of God-Science sites utterly…
Moments of Execution
It has been pointed out that the US economy is bogged down with corporatism’s replication of middle management. We lay off actual workers and rescind public programs in order to find more ways to pay…
Planned Parenthood and the Planned Corporate Patriarchy
In a post on Salon.com in the aftermath of the Susan G. Komen Foundation’s decision to withdraw funding from Planned Parenthood writer Irin Carmon offers illuminate us on, “Why the right hates Planned Parenthood.” (emphasis…
While You Still Have a Body: Rethinking Everything
The world dominated by humans operates outside of our frame of reference. No matter how hard you try it’s hard to think about the muddle when you are surrounded by it. It thinks you. Forgive…
People ARE Markets for Improvement: Simple, Banal, Evil
It is clear by now (by now, by now, right?) as Goldman Sachs continues to rake in cash and continues to occupy top government roles determining policy, as Oil companies continue to destroy land and…
Community Against the Idiots
(The proposed letter at the end of this is substantially what was posted yesterday though I have revised with the intention of making it more communicative across groups in the hopes that it might be…
Education and Capital Replication: It’s the Rot that Becomes Us
If you read this pamphleteer, you discover that education is under ideological assault. Not because there are conflicting ideas about what to learn, how to learn, why to learn, etc. (though there are), but because…