Monday, March 17, 2008

From microcosms to the Cosmos

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Yet another of Amanda's thought-provoking posts that are basically against religion as we know it prompted me to this reply (ignoring...
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Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Teh Veblen quote! "Self-contained globule of desire"

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I've been looking for this quote for years now. The hedonistic conception of man is that of a lightning calculator of pleasures and pain...
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Wednesday, August 08, 2007

"Do You Want to Play a Game..."

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Written on rest room wall, Left Blogtopia (YSCTW!) "For a good time, call BlogWarBot ." For explanations and history, go here . Tr...
Sunday, July 01, 2007

My BSG ramblings

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This is all in reference to Amanda's second Battlestar Galactica post at Pandagon. I'm handicapped dealing with BSG as known to tho...
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Sunday, June 24, 2007

On "Conservative" Misperceptions of Their Own Nature

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At Pandagon, Amanda Marcotte once again questions the wisdom of compromising reproductive rights in the misguided effort to "legitimize...
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Saturday, April 07, 2007

The painful and complex Odyssey of the right to choose in America

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Once again, I'm struck by how astute it was of Amanda Marcotte to recommend Leslie Reagan's When Abortion Was a Crime to her reader...
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Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Because It Apparently Has To Be Said Again

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One side effect of the brouhaha about John Edward's brief employment of world-class feminist blogger Amanda Marcotte on his campaign sta...
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Friday, February 16, 2007

Jammin' with Pam Spaulding on Matters of the Spirit

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As she does on matters of race and homobigotry, Pam Spaulding has once again bared her sweet heart to invite discussion on that "third ...
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Monday, February 12, 2007

Theoretical background stuff for Pam's guests and posterity

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The estimable Pam Spaulding, co-blogging at Pandagon, has once again asked us to seriously discuss race in the USA. Here is my theoretical a...
Sunday, January 28, 2007

The idiocy of private health "insurance"

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Dear Kaitlyn, I just found your blog via a comment you made in Pandagon. And I read this. I doubt very much you are an idiot. I'd say yo...
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Monday, January 15, 2007

Undervaluing the work that is never done...

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Over at the Pandagon place, Amanda has once again attracted a fine crop of concern trolls. Gee, and all she did was point out that making ma...
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Sunday, December 31, 2006

Cum Granum Salum

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Well I hope I got the Latin right. And I checked off perfectly true claims to like all the old traditional carols too. What Christmas Carol ...
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Saturday, December 23, 2006

I've been looking for years for this quote...

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...and a mere aside about one of Bill O'Reilly's many asinine remarks in a BadTux post finally motivated me to track it down. The sh...
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"The Postwar Dream"

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Kactus has a vision Which I share, though like her I'm kind of cynical about ever seeing it. And before I got into actually reading Marx...
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Saturday, December 09, 2006

My Best Case Scenario for Iraq as it is Today

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The USA must get out now. We must prevent the Saudis from making good on their promise to intervene in the absence of the USA on behalf of t...
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Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Thirteen years of childhood in Dixie but I'm still a Damyankee...

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What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Inland North You may think you speak "Standard English straight out of the diction...