Today the HT prints an AP piece that focuses on a proposal (modest?) by one of our many distrusted politicians, Charles Schumer of NY. We distrust Schumer because he is the Senator who receives the most in campaign funding from the financial and credit industries, with the exception of the president. I’m not sure who is the benefactor–financiers and creditors or Schumer. Scratching backs leads…
Drowning in Bathtubs: (Dis)Trusting Public Officials
Before we start, recall that Grover Norquist (best friends with guys like felon Jack Abramoff and moral majority manipulator Ralph Reed, reprehensible thugs of the Machiavellian political underclass), chieftain of corrupt practices masquerading as “tax policy” positions and anti-tax pledges is a man of considerable influence in government and has been for decades. (Who are these awful people? They seem sprung from succubi or perhaps…
Melancholia: A Lugubrious Apocalyptic
It is a most difficult thing (I confess) to be able to discern these causes whence they are, and in such variety to say what the beginning was. *** Primary causes are the heavens, planets, stars, etc., by their influence (our astrologers say) producing this and such effects. (Robert Burton, “The Anatomy of Melancholy”) Freud began to believe that lives were about achieving loss, eventually…
Reading Is (and Is Not) Power
Historically, reading is power. Rather, reading was an activity limited to those in power. The Catholic Church refused to allow the Bible to be translated from the Latin (a Power language of the church) to vernacular English. Even once translated the Church forbade women and servants from reading. A quick backwards glance will easily illustrate the fact that the Word as written and transmitted is…
Human Potential, Time Discipline and Post-Edenic Mind
There is only rendering, the rendered, upon which there is thought. This is the basis of our understanding of mind. Ruskin, Freud, Proust…Bernays, Goebbels, Gossage and so on. In one sense there is an undiscovered country which is not death, but memory in as expansive a form as you can imagine. We can seek to discover its depth and breadth or we can manipulate the…
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Corner Pieces–Privatization Will Be Coerced by Courts
Apropos of the previous post, our friend at School Matters, Steve Hinnefeld, offers some thoughts on the Catholic School domination in Indiana’s voucher program in his latest, “Indiana’ expansive – and expensive – first-year voucher program.” It’s a stretch, though, to suggest the schools represent anything close to the state’s diversity. Only about five are non-religious schools. A rough count suggests that about 180 are Catholic…
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Project Lead the Way–Engineering Children for Corporate Military Fodder
[In the following Doug Martin once again connects the dots for us. “Right-wing” now seems to mean only “Mammon-Worship” and I’m certain that we need no political affiliation any longer to describe this disease. The Kern Family Foundation, the Walton Family Foundation, the Friedman Family Foundation, etc., are only names for the manifestation of Mammon worship. It is telling beyond belief that these organizations use…
Taking Down Geographic Boundaries–Don’t Be True to Your School!
State Impact Indiana posted a 3-question interview with Tony Bennett, Indiana’s Superintendent of Public Instruction, in which Bennett makes a statement that seems to me of massive importance and one that has yet to really be addressed or understood. I have highlighted this crucial detail of the effect of the school voucher programs. Q: In some many cases, students using the voucher program are attending…