February 2011
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WatchVery not cool.
Video appears to show police using CS spray on tax protester
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January 2011
132 posts
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Be quiet! Your boss (and colleagues) are watching
The culture of deception exists all around us. For Christopher Hedges, “the culture of illusion is the culture of death.” Is the U.S. such a place? In the supposed “land of the free” how often in the culture does one speak freely, let alone speaking so that “the truth” thunders mightily? The censor is always around. We are all socialized, consciously and ...
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A play with Derridean deconstruction... →
ontheapparatus:
A play with Derridean deconstruction
“Heterosexuality is the natural way for human beings to be.”
The word ‘nature’ is understood to entail that which arises naturally; organic in form. To apply the term ‘natural’ is to describe that which is part of life as it has…
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The five worldviews that define American politics
Neoliberal globalism:
This is more or less the official ideology of the political and corporate and financial establishments, shared by centrist New Democrats as well as by most Republican conservatives in their practice as opposed to their preaching. Shared by Barack Obama and Bill Clinton with George W. Bush, neoliberal globalism combines moderate conservatism in economics with the idea...
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“The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.”
– Audre Lorde (via gardant)
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Stick It In The Mixer...: Fernando Torres: End of... →
“Liverpool have always been a club with a mentality, an identity, that I like. They are a club trabajador [humble, hard working, people’s club]. They are a team that maybe doesn’t have as many stars as other clubs but it has traditionally been as successful, or more so, because of the…
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Egyptian Activists' Action Plan: Translated - The... →
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“I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution,...”
– Speech delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on April 4, 1967, at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned at Riverside Church in New York City: http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45a/058.html
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“Longer words tend to carry more information, according to research by a team of...”
– http://is.gd/inNAUd
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So you still think the internet is free... →
impressive use of information
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“There’s an old joke: An Oxford professor meets a former student and asks what...”
– via azspot.net
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Fox News' $55 Million Presidential Donation →
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““They only thing I’ve ever found, with my wife, is that I can find my way around...”
– http://is.gd/i2cxS8
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haychelsea asked: Thanks for following me! Awesome blog. I can already tell that I'm going to like it.
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“The moral outrage of the liberal class, a specialty of MSNBC, groups such as...”
– Chris Hedges (via azspot)
Spot on. Read the whole piece. This weekend in fact, a sociology colleague tried to silence me at a conference when I made similar points. He claimed such sentiment was a point of view and not based on research. That I must present data to make such claims. To say I backed...
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cafedeshistoires asked: Ooohh hablas español?? Where are you from?? : )
cafedeshistoires asked: I LOVE YOUR BLOG!!!! besos!
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Pareto Principle →
You see the pattern everywhere: the top 1% of the population control 35% of the wealth. On Twitter, the top 2% of users send 60% of the messages. In the health care system, the treatment for the most expensive fifth of patients create four-fifths of the overall cost. These figures are always reported as shocking, as if the normal order of things has been disrupted, as if the appearance of...
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“anthropology is sociology for people who can’t do math.”
– http://www.ricestandard.org/drawing-the-line-between-disciplines/
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“It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the...”
– Buddha (via harvestheart)
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