February 2012
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January 2012
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“…From the patterns in behavior that are observable we may infer a design...”
– Christopher Hitchens on how unfalsifiable theories are weak
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Imploring the Presidency
As it pertains to the necessity for the discontinuation of the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility and the defense and faciliatation of Due Process in the trial of PFC Bradley Manning:
As Americans we should all strive to extend our own rights and liberties to ALL individuals whom we deem suspect of guilt regardless of nationality or origin of birth. We must be better than those who wish to...
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The 1% are not job creators
Rich people are not the job creators. Jobs are created to answer for a demand generated by the market. It ties in with the fundamental economic principle of supply and demand. The demand, in this case, would be a market/public that has the resources to seek products they need and desire. Providing incentives for the business owners to hire people without stoking the fire of market demand will...
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“The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every few...”
– Thomas Jefferson
New Year's Resolutions
I’m not going to be able to remember all the things I should improve upon, but I’m going to try and list a few things.
1. Get back into juicing up fruits and veggies every day.
2. Start keeping a weekly journal (perhaps on here…)
3. Get back into working out. (I’ve gained back some of the weight I had been losing up until about the middle of december).
4. Get more...
December 2011
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A Lesson From Hitch: When Rudeness Is Called For. ... →
This article really hits home for me. I find it so refreshing when I hear people talk out of turn and really stop someone when the are indefensibly full of shit. I’ve found myself in all too many debates where I allow the other person to finish a long winded argument which conveniently obscures the matter at hand. I am too polite most of the time and I need to unlearn that trained...
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November 2011
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“I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion,...”
– Thomas Paine
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Why the "Classroom Socialism Experiment" is...
I’ve recently been made aware of a series of tumblr posts floating around regarding a classroom analogy to the implementation of socialism that has been disappointing at best. The experiment calls for everyone to submit to receiving the classroom average GPA on any particular assessment. It further details how it inevitably lead to a group failing grade with the (weaker) students...
“Ethical teaching is weakened if it is tied up with dogmas that will not bear...”
– — Margaret Knight, Morals Without Religion, 1955.
“God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people...”
– Thomas Jefferson
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Mahatma Gandhi said that seven things will destroy...
* Wealth without Work * Pleasure without Conscience * Science without Humanity * Knowledge without Character * Politics without Principle * Commerce without Morality * Worship without Sacrifice
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“Up in the morning and out to school
Mother says there’ll be no work next...”
– Billy Bragg
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Watch
Chris Hayes Exclusive: Lobbying Firm’s Memo Spells Out Plan to Undermine Occupy Wall Street (VIDEO)
5 Ways We Ruined the Occupy Wall Street Generation →
This is a great down-to-earth article about how my generation is not getting the fair shake that others got and getting shit for being who we are.
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The Downward Path of Upward Mobility →
Fareed Zakaria is always thought provoking in the subjects that he chooses to tackle. This article in the Huffington Post gets at how upward mobility (the ability to move up in terms of income and status) in America is in bad shape. This is at the heart of what we were told when we were little; that you can be anything you want to be if you work hard and have talent.
here is an excerpt:
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PANIC OF THE PLUTOCRATS →
An amazing article by Paul Krugman about the nature of the Occupy Wall Street Protesting and the results.
Socialism In America
coffesmokesbusiness:
“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”
― John Steinbeck
“You can’t just say there is a God because well, the world is beautiful. You have...”
– Stephen Fry (“The Importance of Unbelief”, Interview on bigthink.com)
October 2011
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Burning The Midnight Oil
There is a stillness in the air in the city at 4:00am. Its the kind of stillness that makes you fee like Charlton Heston in The Omega Man. That silence that seems to amplify all the hums and clicks for miles. I never seem to notice except now that the city, during the day, is nothing but a swirling cacophony. a symphony of man and machine fornicating in America’s collective ear drum.
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“Until you have done something for humanity, you should be ashamed to die.”
– Horace Mann
“Contrary to what you may have heard from Henry Rollins or/and Ian MacKaye and/or...”
– Chuck Klosterman, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low-Culture Manifesto
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“I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely...”
– Albert Einstein ‘Why Socialism?’
Thirteen Observations made by Lemony Snicket while... →
Thirteen Observations made by Lemony Snicket while watching Occupy Wall Street from a Discreet Distance
1. If you work hard, and become successful, it does not necessarily mean you are successful because you worked hard, just as if you are tall with long hair it doesn’t mean you would be a midget if you were bald.
2. “Fortune” is a word for having a lot of money and for having a lot of luck,...
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