March 2012
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Great stuff on Graeber's "Debt"
Crooked Timber’s “seminar” on David Graeber’s Debt is some of the best content on the internet this week. It’s all worth reading:
Chris Bertram, Introduction John Quiggin, The unmourned death of the double coincidence Henry Farrell: The world economy is not a tribute system Barry Finger Debt jubilee or global deleveraging John Quiggin (slight return): The end of...
so-meta asked: I wasn't really trying to characterize his economic beliefs so much as his beliefs about state power re: social policy. I was very careful not to cede to him constitutional authority and I even said that if his interpretation is the constitution's true face, then we should trash it and start over.
Intelligent people: is it appropriate to refer to...
so-meta:
I’m trying to draw the distinction between libertarianism and Paul’s idea of federalism, because the latter enables plenty of decidedly un-libertarian policies at the subnational level where they weren’t enabled before. Give me a better way to classify him if you think you have one.
At risk of pretension in implicitly claiming to be an Intelligent Person - NO. NO NO NO NO NO. If you...
February 2012
338 posts
I think a lot of really stupid tumblr conversations could be entirely avoided if people had a solid grip on the distinction between existential and universal quantifiers
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The Obama Corporate Tax Reform Plan, ctd.
joemccarthyblues:
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joemccarthyblues:
This is actually a very sensible move in the framework of a capitalist system. Lets face it, we have some of the highest corporate tax rates in the developed world if you actually pay them. This means that companies with legal teams of the shadiest scumbags they could afford pay next to nothing and take advantage of offshore profits using...
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“We’ve had a primary campaign that isn’t really an argument about issues. It’s a...”
– David Brooks wrote something Not Stupid today
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sonofapritch replied to your post: Santorum’s intense anti-intellectualism never…
anti-intellectual lawyer shouldn’t even be a thing that’s possible to occur. Also: DP Dough’s is so disappointing
I know law students that are wicked instrumental about the whole exercise and they’re mostly horrible. IT’S A THING.
And yeah I never got them. Pioneer Valley Pizza has the best...
Santorum’s intense anti-intellectualism never ceases to amaze.
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“You know, it’s very easy to excite the base with incendiary comments. We’ve seen...”
– Mitt Romney in a press conference held today. I think this actually signals a shift in posture - so far this campaign season he’s been trying and failing to match the “hair on fire” tone of his opponents. Perhaps he’s tacking to appeal to moderate conservatives that are...
What kind of monster actively maintains a website...
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PPP: Momentum back toward Santorum in MI
PPP’s final poll in Michigan finds Rick Santorum holding on to the smallest of leads with 38% to 37% for Mitt Romney, 14% for Ron Paul, and 9% for Newt Gingrich. It’s always good to be cautious with one night poll numbers, but momentum seems to be swinging in Santorum’s direction. Romney led with those interviewed on Sunday, but Santorum has a 39-34 advantage with folks polled...
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Letters To My Country: Does The First Amendment... →
letterstomycountry:
You’d think so, but not according to a District Court Judge in Pennsylvania:
There is a surprising story out of Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania that seems the perfect storm of religious tensions. You begin with Ernie Perce, an atheist who marched as a zombie Mohammad in the Mechanicsburg…
Here’s the response of the judge, via the Volokh Conspiracy. I don’t...
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Interim junior administrative assistant
is another way of saying lowest-status paper-shuffler in the business unit.
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God, I found some old debate files. Topics...
sterwood:
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sassmadness:
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ECOMANAGERIALISTIC TECHNOCRATIC AGRICULTURAL DISCOURSES ARE ANTHROPOCENTRIC AND WILL EVENTUALLY DRIVE THE HUMAN RACE TO OMNICIDE
TURNING TO THE STATE TO PROTECT WOMEN’S RIGHTS INTERRUPTS CONSCIOUSNESS OF PATRIARCHAL VIOLENCE’S CONNECTION TO CAPITAL
YOUR IDENTITY POLITICS LACKS ANY THEORY OF HOW OPPRESSION IS MATERIALIZED AND...
God, I found some old debate files. Topics...
sassmadness:
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ECOMANAGERIALISTIC TECHNOCRATIC AGRICULTURAL DISCOURSES ARE ANTHROPOCENTRIC AND WILL EVENTUALLY DRIVE THE HUMAN RACE TO OMNICIDE
TURNING TO THE STATE TO PROTECT WOMEN’S RIGHTS INTERRUPTS CONSCIOUSNESS OF PATRIARCHAL VIOLENCE’S CONNECTION TO CAPITAL
YOUR IDENTITY POLITICS LACKS ANY THEORY OF HOW OPPRESSION IS MATERIALIZED AND REPRODUCED-THE PROLIFERATION OF...
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God, I found some old debate files. Topics...
ECOMANAGERIALISTIC TECHNOCRATIC AGRICULTURAL DISCOURSES ARE ANTHROPOCENTRIC AND WILL EVENTUALLY DRIVE THE HUMAN RACE TO OMNICIDE
TURNING TO THE STATE TO PROTECT WOMEN’S RIGHTS INTERRUPTS CONSCIOUSNESS OF PATRIARCHAL VIOLENCE’S CONNECTION TO CAPITAL
YOUR IDENTITY POLITICS LACKS ANY THEORY OF HOW OPPRESSION IS MATERIALIZED AND REPRODUCED-THE PROLIFERATION OF IDENTITY BECOMES EITHER A...
FREE BOOKS pt IV
Last batch of free books. If you haven’t yet, see also parts I, II, and III for other available titles. This one is pretty much just a little sci-fi, but the full list of books on offer includes philosophy, classics of English literature, American drama, political texts - a whole range of things. Tell me you want something, I send it to you, you just paypal me the shipping cost. I just want...
“Colonial syllogism
No one can escape from destiny
No one can escape fate
No...”
– Tristan Tzara, Colonial Syllogism, 1924 (via spacebaw)
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sijemesouviensbien replied to your post: FREE BOOKS pt III
you’re giving Clockwork Orange away? I would NEVER!
Duplicate copy!
FREE BOOKS pt III
More free books becoming available as the purge of my library continues. You just pay shipping and I’ll send them your way. See here and here for more titles.
Teach Yourself Beginner’s Latin
Mahmood Mamdani, Good Muslim, Bad Muslim
The Power of Nonviolence (an anthology)
Nick Turse, The Complex
Cynthia Enloe, Globalization and Militarism: Feminists Make the Link
Crispin Sartwell,...
“i heard arsenal won 5-2 thats absurd”
– camus (via r-i-o-t)
Little known fact, the dawn of Camus’s absurdist philosophy comes from the ill fated trade the Boston Red Socks made when they gave George Herman “Babe” Ruth, the young up and coming star to the New York Yankees. His commentary on the subject is the first recorded use by Albert...
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orioleorgans replied to your post: FREE BOOKS pt II
having atlas shrugged being sold for free is funny
I’m all about that FREE MARKET.
phredology replied to your post: FREE BOOKS pt II
ugh my faves are taken :(
:( First come first serve WELCOME TO THE WAR OF ALL AGAINST ALL.
FREE BOOKS pt II
So I’ve sorted a few more shelves worth of books, and here’s what’s on offer. Again - these are all free. You just pay the more or less nominal cost of shipping. Check out my previous post for more titles. Again - more titles forthcoming.
Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
John Kenneth Galbraith, Economics and the Public Purpose
Ed. David Boaz, The...
FREE BOOKS: Odds and Ends from my Library
Since I’m moving this summer, I need to get my collection of books down to a manageable level. I thought I’d give you lot first crack at them, given that I like you all etc etc. I’m willing to give them away - you just pay for shipping via USPS media mail (which isn’t expensive at all), paypal preferred. I’ll be posting more as I work through these piles around my...
Flashback: In 2006, Rick Santorum Wanted To Send... →
kohenari:
At an Americans For Prosperity-sponsored tea party rally [in Michigan] Saturday, Rick Santorum trumpeted his connections to the working class by attacking President Obama’s plan to make college more accessible to Americans.
“President Obama wants everybody in America to go to college,” Santorum said. “What a snob!”
But the last time Santorum ran for public office — his...
“Bribes: If you receive a bribe, include it in your income.”
– IRS Publication 525, Taxable And Non Taxable Income: Instructions for Filling out your Tax Return
UGH STILL SICK
MAKE IT STOP, PLEASE
“It’s comforting to believe that these violent protests and the obviously intense...”
– Glenn Greenwald, “The Causes of the Protests in Afghanistan”
Observed D7 Districts today
fuckyeahpolicydebate:
“Marxism directly results in cannibalism.”
God, I miss policy debate.
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TPM/Josh Marshall: "WTF, Newt?" →
When I was watching the debate last night I did a double-take when I heard Newt say that ‘reforming’ the federal Civil Service system could save “a minimum of $500 billion a year.”
That sounded pretty crazy to me since that’s like 15% of the entire federal government. And the vast majority of federal spending goes to the military and transfer payments like Social Security and Medicare.
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“Money comes into the federal government through taxes and bonds. The vast...”
– Ezra Klein, “Romney’s Budget in Less Than 150 Words”
sijemesouviensbien:
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sijemesouviensbien:
interruptions replied to your post: No.
I’ve never understood quite what Dag means when he says whiteness is a legal construct - it has a genealogy bound up with juridical norms, definitely, but it just so obviously seems to go far beyond that.
What seems to go far beyond that? Whiteness or its genealogy? I no longer buy the whole...
sijemesouviensbien:
interruptions replied to your post: No.
I’ve never understood quite what Dag means when he says whiteness is a legal construct - it has a genealogy bound up with juridical norms, definitely, but it just so obviously seems to go far beyond that.
What seems to go far beyond that? Whiteness or its genealogy? I no longer buy the whole whiteness as ontological property of white...
"proximally and for the most part"
“What you are saying is not true because you are questioning truth. Come on! you...”
– Jacques Derrida, Monolingualism of the Other
DERRIDA IS THE FUNNIEST
(via harunwasagoon)
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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