February 2012
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UGH SICK
spending the entire day in meditation on the weakness of the flesh and contempt of the body
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Libertarians and "Right to Work"
Right to work statutes prohibit employers from making union membership a condition of employment. Isn’t this the sort of thing that libertarians ought to get up in arms about? It interferes with freedom of contract by prohibiting certain sorts of agreements between unions and employers and between employers and employees. Ron Paul, for instance, is on record as opposing antitrust laws and...
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sijemesouviensbien:
hollovv replied to your post: hollovv replied to your post: hollovv replied to…
I like this! This seems to (at least conceivably, to me) have little bearing on the ontological status of the entities of scientific research though…
Well the implications boil down to epistemological warrant of scientific discourse. Positing entities is dumb. Science discursively creates them...
How to Write Like A Neoliberal Hack The Economist’s Style Guide
“And if Roe v. Wade were overturned tomorrow, nobody would even notice.”
– Wendy Long, who’s running against Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) for the U.S. Senate. And by nobody, she means the one million women who had an abortion in the U.S. last year. (via kathiek)
That is not the point she was making. The remainder of this sentence makes that clear.
(via gaypher)
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“Question for the Paul supporters. We all know he won’t get the nomination, but...”
– thegayrepublican, via JasenComstock: Last nights debate.
Oh my goodness I just blacked out a little from excitement because this would be exactly the type of total financial collapse that’s this tumblr’s bread and butter.
Is it bad that I actually think this would be sort of amazing, just because...
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Stray thought on Newt last night...
Did anybody else get the sense that Newt was angling for disaffected libertarian voters? There were a couple times in the debate where he tried to align himself with Ron Paul against Santorum and Romney. His diction struck me as sounding a libertarian note too - lots of noises about “coercion” and “the state” (which has a distinctly libertarian resonance among republicans,...
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oh did we mention "fuck unions"?
just in case we hadn’t been clear already
"most prolific proliferator"
Pre-Debate GOP Catch Up
Is this really happening again?
Yes.
When and where?
CNN, 8PM. It’s being webcast here.
Why should I spend even one more minute on these things?
Well, this one is a bit of a Big Deal. It’s the first debate in about a month. A lot has changed in the race, and a lot is at stake.
Like what?
Well, following a pair of disappointing debate performances and an aggressive negative-ad...
“Few works have sung the praises of the middle classes with such embarrassing...”
– Terry Eagleton, trolling dawkinists as always.
I loled VERY HARD.
(via brunomarconi)
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“In the scenario that excludes all the extraordinary policies [TARP, ARRA, QE],...”
– Alan S. Blinder & Mark Zandi, “How the Great Recession was Brought to an End”
This is why I defend the necessity of the bank bailouts in late ‘08.
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My dash tonight is like entirely composed of...
HAS THE WHOLE WORLD GONE CRAZY
OK Go - End Love
“If you browse in the shelves that, in American bookstores, are labeled New Age,...”
– Umberto Eco, “Eternal Fascism: 14 Ways to Look at a Blackshirt”
(h/t lazlazlaz)
logicallypositive:
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logicallypositive:
Ethics will always boil down to some sort of subjective, unfalsifiable judgments. That’s the nature of a judgment. However, we can take steps to make sure that the particular evidence on which be base those judgments is firmly grounded in objective reality, universal and accessible to all. I guess that’s the point I’m trying to make...
if we cut off zooey deschanel's bangs capitalism...
nobastarezar:
but sadly, if you cut them off, they grow back, hydra-like, as more bangs
logicallypositive:
Ethics will always boil down to some sort of subjective, unfalsifiable judgments. That’s the nature of a judgment. However, we can take steps to make sure that the particular evidence on which be base those judgments is firmly grounded in objective reality, universal and accessible to all. I guess that’s the point I’m trying to make here.
Even taking that premise as given...
interruptions: hollovv replied to your quote: With... →
hollovv:
interruptions:
hollovv replied to your quote: With a tenacious prejudice perhaps connected to…
Dude this is so far from true for biological/physical anthropologists (the ones that do bi-cultural evolution) and even some biologists (Gould, etc)
Point taken - though in fairness to Agamben,…
While I like Agamben I find him largely trying to essentialize things like this without much...
hollovv replied to your quote: With a tenacious prejudice perhaps connected to…
Dude this is so far from true for biological/physical anthropologists (the ones that do bi-cultural evolution) and even some biologists (Gould, etc)
Point taken - though in fairness to Agamben, from the context of the quote by “the becoming human of man” I think he’s just talking about the...
“With a tenacious prejudice perhaps connected to their profession, scientists...”
– Giorgio Agamben, “The Sacrament of Language: An Archaeology of the Oath”
bethefoodoflove:
interruptions replied to your post: Of Doctors and Capitalists
Roughly half of medical practices are owned by the physicians that operate them. They employ/exploit paraprofessional and administrative staff, etc. Is it fair to say they’re members of the bourgeoisie by virtue of their relation to the m.o.p.?
In this case it would be safe to say that as small business owners,...
doctors as capitalists can suck a fuck.
bethefoodoflove:
how exactly are doctors members of the capitalist class? as a group, their relationship to the means of production is distant at best, and that’s being rather generous.
also, don’t you think it might be just a little bit problematic for an able-bodied person whose life is not in imminent danger of ending due to chronic illness to tell medical personnel to “suck a fuck” while...
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No matter how long I stay out of the Church
the language of the Book of Common Prayer and the KJV still never lose their hold on me. In my email inbox today, from the church I attended as a small child, is the old prayer for the departed:
O ALMIGHTY God, with whom do live the spirits of just men made perfect, after they are delivered from their earthly prisons; We humbly commend the soul of this thy servant, our dear brother, [redacted],...
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do you know that advocating for grocery stores in...
[I for one am a staunch advocate of “food desserts”, as opposed to deceptive varieties of dessert which are not, in fact, food. -interruptions]
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Where does this perception that Obama is...
It’s received wisdom amongst the GOP that the man is incapable of stringing two sentences together without a teleprompter. They seem sure that as soon as he’s on stage in a debate with a republican, he’s going to get his ass handed to him.
How do you square that with the fact that judging by national opinion polls, Obama won every debate against McCain?
I don’t get it....
“the standard bourgeois story devised by Locke and Smith was that: “long, long...”
– a companion to Marx’s Capital by David Harvey (via zizekianrevolution)
Why can't education be free? Because knowledge is...
anticapitalist:
When people talk about “higher education”, they are not talking about intense learning in a field of your desire. They’re not talking about developing yourself into an intellectual. They are talking about preparing yourself for corporate slavery.
The various Bachelors, PhD, Masters, and MD programs we refer to as “higher education” are not higher education as much as they...
“When, anachronistically projecting a modern concept onto the past, one often...”
– Giorgio Agamben, The Sacrament of Language: An Archaeology of the Oath
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The next GOP debate is wednesday at 8pm.
If you don’t want your dash spammed with related content between the hours of 8 and 10 pm on that day, I suggest you unfollow me now.
Santorum's "Issues" Page →
jillyyfish:
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Just look at what the #1 issue is on the page.
h/t ThinkProgress
This is beautiful. Also, I have honestly always thought that the phrase “American exceptionalism” was supposed to be pejorative. naïve much /:
The phrase has a weird etymology. Alexis de Tocqueville uses something close in Democracy in America in the course of explaining why we’re a bunch of...
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Santorum's "Issues" Page →
Just look at what the #1 issue is on the page.
h/t ThinkProgress
Corey Robin: Why the Left Gets Neoliberalism...
Left critics of neoliberalism—or just plain old unregulated capitalism—often cite Margaret Thatcher’s famous declaration “There is no such thing as society” as evidence of neoliberalism’s hostility to all things collective. Neoliberalism, the story goes, unleashes the individual to fend for herself, denying her the supports of society (government, neighborhood solidarity, etc.) so that she...