Yesterday’s post that centered on Jon Stewart in the hopes of making a larger point about our inability to see just how we are “molded and mollified” by our systems of message conveyance instigated a…
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A Dialogue on Jon Stewart and the Politics and Commerce of Comedy
A friend, Kenny Childers of Gentleman Caller renown, posted two words to his Facebook Wall yesterday morning: “Jon Stewart”. The comedian and political satirist was in Bloomington Friday night and Kenny had been in attendance….
An Idle Curriculum as Salvific
Update (in the body of the text) “What Can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years?” Vonnegut’s fictional holy man Bokonon asks in the “14th Book…
It’s Not Who You Know, It’s Who You Really Are
Editor’s Note: All Links are Audio at You Tube. Sometimes we all get a bit bogged down. I spent the morning trying to explain myself and my perspective on how screwed up Western Capitalist thinking…
Patriot’s Pen: VFW Asks “Is There Pride in Serving in the Armed Forces?”
I thought about writing an essay in response to this question posed by the VFW in their “Patriot’s Pen” contest. I thought about sending in my Daughters of the American Revolution essay from when I was…
Farking Mentality: Degredation Is in the Eye of the Beholder
Yesterday our post “Nike: Just Watch! Girls Sidelined with Algebra Allergy” was “Farked.” Wow. What is Fark? From the “About” page: The first thing you should know is that Fark.com isn’t a Weblog. Fark.com, the Web…
Nike: Just Watch! Girls Sidelined with Algebra Allergy
I was sitting on the bleachers at my daughter’s volleyball practice last night. I spent the first part of practice trying to pay attention to the drills and skills they were attempting to master. I…
Framing for Power: Becoming What We Oppose
Okay, I’ve been trying to suss out Lakoff and frames and metaphors of tribal response and so on. Today, after the dogs and I parted ways with the kids (they to school, us to find…
Framing the Family: No Moms Allowed
I’ll be honest, I feel somewhat in denial. Perhaps it’s a stage in a kind of intellectual grief. If, as I wrote yesterday, our politics is a “play of frames”–a “turning on” of certain metaphoric…
Framing Rules: God is Father, Father knows Best, Markets know Best…Market is God
Rank speculation from The Errant follows. Going with the flow to discover my unconscious frames. Do you know why GWB and BHO enacted financial policies design to funnel tax dollars into the vaults of “failed”…