Category Archives: social sciences

Chill; It’s Just a Game

Perhaps you’ve seen it, since there are multiple copies on YouTube and other video sites: Protester runs on the field waving a sign, gets tackled by cops who proceed to get entirely too rough, which provokes the fans to attack … Continue reading

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Fear Itself

It’s not so much the fear mongering, but the mongering of false fears. That is, stirring up excitement over things which don’t exist (like Iran’s nuclear weapons) or which don’t matter (gay marriage). But the politics of fear is the … Continue reading

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Our Pimp Has a New Bottom Lady

If you are old enough, you might recognize the slang in the title. If the language seems crude, it is at least more accurate than is typically offered us. For some decades now, the US has been Israel’s bitch. It’s … Continue reading

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Flogging a Wooden Horse: Law and Title Case

It happened today again. I ran across a posting on some website where someone was gibbering about the government, legal authority, and using all capital letters on legal documents. It won’t matter how many times someone tells me of a … Continue reading

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Good and Bad with Vocaloids

I am an arts curmudgeon. Making no pretense to cultural literacy, I can tell you honestly whether I like something or not when it is presented as art, and I’m hardly worried about how well that opinion matches any standards, … Continue reading

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Nobody Believes It

Stop and think. Have you met a single government employee, particularly in regards to their government function, who honestly works to limit government power? How about to merely increase government accountability? We can wax eloquent on the grand philosophical themes … Continue reading

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Epperly Heights Grade School Nightmares (Updated)

Update: The principal himself took charge of this issue, and promises to keep an eye on it. He explained some parent of a student gave our number as a point of contact. We don’t know these people. Way to man … Continue reading

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Let’s Imagine War

Just for your entertainment, I offer these feeble predictions. I’m half serious, of course, but I have no inside knowledge. This is what I believe is likely only at the moment I post it, and is subject to revision on … Continue reading

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The Revolution Has Already Failed

(Pulling together a lot of threads, most of you, dear readers, will follow along fine without a jillion links.) There won’t be a revolution. The moment for that was long, long ago. About the only way you could get a … Continue reading

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Bad Faith Policing

I find it repugnant to read blogs which merely link to other blogs, never expressing their own thoughts on much of anything. Their posts amounts to, “Yeah, what he said.” Then again, sometimes you run across something so eloquent, you … Continue reading

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