There is some contention that in particular cases of cancer, removing tumors, often the only treatment that can extend life by reducing the burden of carrying the disease (thus reducing its effects), actually speeds metastatic…
Posts tagged democracy
Tied to Your Shared Fate
[In which we conclude that Stubb’s version of the monkey-rope is evil.] What is Equality? The state of being equal, especially in status, rights, and opportunities 10Erectile dysfunction may occur regardless of the post- tadalafil…
Managed Democracy and Stalinism: Education Reform From Russia, With Love.
Okay, because schools, I’ve been told, suck, and because Americans, it’s been said, are stupid, and because citizens, it seems, are unaware of the history that has brought us to this point, I will offer…
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…
Occupy Wall Street: A Sit-in Defining Being Against the Doing
Two bits, more than a shave and haircut, on the “unrest” that appears to be morphing nicely into actual thought. Both of these from the web magazine The New Significance: “A web magazine exploring revolutionary…
In Praise of Life Work: Against Jobs
Today, walking the dogs, air heavy with a cold mist, moving up a gentle grade into the rising sun, trees in autumn raiment, yellow and fading reds, my eyes are on the road ahead, yet…
A Big Secret: Democracy Doesn’t Exist
Listen, come closer…closer…that’s it. I have a secret. Democracy does not exist. Why not? So many reasons! But let’s focus on Democracy first by defining it and then use a recent national example of something…
Alone in America
Yesterday a Bloomington man with a long criminal history took his wife hostage by holding a gun to her head and walking with her down Rogers Street. He was apparently agitated enough, shaking his gun…