Monthly Archives: February 2010

in response to a fine post on Crooks and Liars by David Niewert, entitled: “Glenn Beck’s eliminationist attacks on progressives: How long before someone acts on this violent rhetoric?” A taste: What motivates this kind of talk and behavior is called eliminationism … Continue reading →

Just as in writing, the online woods are populated with emotional vampires, willing to make a buck off your vanity. You’ve GOT to believe in yourself to be in business, and some wall plaque that anybody with, say twenty bucks, can make up for themselves isn’t much of anything. But if you THINK it’s for real, no price is too great …. Continue reading →

Lynchings are illegal, no matter how bad a guy the lynchee is…. Continue reading →

After 80 days, it’s time Americans confronted a grave question: If no weapons of mass destruction are found, then members of the Bush administration are guilty of war crimes…. Continue reading →

When someone chooses to leave the most exclusive club in the world, and says it’s because there is something profoundly and elementally wrong with our government in the midst of a crisis of Brobdingnagian proportions, the thoughtful citizen takes the time to listen. Continue reading →

What do you want to bet that the “lawyering” in all those rebuttals was a hell of a lot more professional and detailed than the “lawyering” that found that torture was perfectly OK, by suppressing relevant Supreme Court precedents and playing up a UN Resolution that was never adopted? Continue reading →

The American Liberty Tour is a collaborative project of the American Liberty Alliance, Americans for Limited Government and the Sam Adams Alliance … Yeah. Those guys; guess they traded up for the Trojan Horse, again. Continue reading →

In part i. we talked about HOW humans construct the simulation of the “real world” that we carry around in our heads. In part ii. we talked about how LANGUAGE creates “reality” within that selfsame head by virtue of our … Continue reading →

Now, normally, we would leave these pathetic misogynists to their lonely bouts of masturbation and rationalization (‘Women just can’t handle manly men’) but then, last night, they STRUCK! Struck with all the intellectual force they could muster … Continue reading →

And by “reality,” we must remember that there are SOCIAL realities just as real as any “real” reality, like, say, a brick on the head. And those social realities rely on language as well, as in: You do not walk on this side of the street without OUR permission.” (Generally followed by an insulting and/or humiliating phrase.) Continue reading →

The world that we perceive only exists within our own minds, and, while it is a result and reflection of “REALITY,” it is only a very complex simulation of the real world. It is inherent in the human condition that we believe the world we perceive to be the only world that there is, and, therefore, THERE ARE NO SUCH THINGS AS GHOSTS. Continue reading →