Daily Archives: October 30, 2008

Living Without Miracle, Mystery, and Authority?: OZ Never Did Give Nothing to the Tin Man (That He Didn’t Already Have)

Posted on October 30, 2008 by Santi Tafarella
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Great Polling Numbers for Obama Today: Look Especially at Ohio and North Carolina. Know Hope

Posted on October 30, 2008 by Santi Tafarella

Source: FiveThirtyEight.com

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With Just 84 Hours of Campaign Time Left Before Election Day, Obama Continues to Look Strong in the Polls

Posted on October 30, 2008 by Santi Tafarella

Source: FiveThirtyEight.com

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Perhaps the Ickiest Ad of the Campaign Season: Fundamentalists Turn Proposition 8 into an Issue of Armageddon-Sized Proportions

Posted on October 30, 2008 by Santi Tafarella

If you live in California, vote no on 8 (if, for no other reason, to deny the hysterics who made the ad below a victory based on insighting apocalyptic fear and religious alarm against the gay community). The video below is at … Continue reading →

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Albert Camus in a Neil Diamond Song

Posted on October 30, 2008 by Santi Tafarella

Because my dad was a big Neil Diamond fan, I’ve heard this song all my life—and yet missed Albert Camus’ name in the lyrics. I also missed Ramakrishna and Whistler’s mother. This YouTube catches them all: How did I miss … Continue reading →

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John McSAME

Posted on October 30, 2008 by Santi Tafarella

Same old. Same old.

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Gross McCarthyism: In the Final Weekend Before the Election, McCain-Palin Desperately Try to Tag Anti-Semitism on Obama

Posted on October 30, 2008 by Santi Tafarella

It is hard to imagine, after the Holocaust, a grosser McCarthy-like slander, than to call someone an anti-semite who is clearly not—or insinuate that a person is associated with, and is sympathetic with the causes of, anti-semites. Obviously, Barack Obama is … Continue reading →

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Shiloh and the Origin of Religion: Neil Diamond Sings to His Imaginary Friend

Posted on October 30, 2008 by Santi Tafarella

IS prayer and worship the expression of longing and inner dialogue (directed to a projected self)? And when religion turns fundamentalist, is it because this metaphorical self is LITERALIZED? In short, does fundamentalism mistake the metaphor for something REAL (like a bee trying … Continue reading →

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With Five Days to the Election, the Polls Look Good for Obama

Posted on October 30, 2008 by Santi Tafarella
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The Heart

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Carpe Diem

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Amanda Jones’s Father Was a Slave. She is 109 Years Old—and She Just Voted. Will You?

Posted on October 30, 2008 by Santi Tafarella
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Up from Slavery, and into the Polling Booth: Amanda Jones, a 109 Year Old Woman Whose Father was a Slave, Just Voted for Barack Obama

Posted on October 30, 2008 by Santi Tafarella

Below is a quote from a profile article that appeared in an Austin, Texas newspaper today. This election is part of America’s story. History is being made before our very eyes—and we are a part of it. Are you with Amanda … Continue reading →

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“And if I claim to be a wise man, well, it surely means that I don’t know”: Socratic Skepticism in a Kansas Song (1976)

Posted on October 30, 2008 by Santi Tafarella

Rising above the noise and confusion of the herd—to other noises and other confusions?:

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‘Meet the real Ashwin Madia”: Image Darkening Designed to Evoke Racial Fear in White Voters

Posted on October 30, 2008 by Santi Tafarella

According to KARE 11 television in Minneapolis, Republicans are blatantly playing the race card in a congressional contest in Minnesota: A Republican attack ad invites viewers to “meet the real Ashwin Madia,” but the still photos featured in the spot … Continue reading →

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Border Crossings: The Hysterical and Paranoid Right-Wing Authoritarian—Here and Abroad

Posted on October 30, 2008 by Santi Tafarella

George Packer of the New Yorker on the paranoid style in Iraqi—and American—politics: A roundup (via Andrew Sullivan) of conservative anti-Obama blogging during the election. Much of it has appeared on popular right-wing Web sites, including National Review Online, disclosing … Continue reading →

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On November 4th, We Will Be Free

Posted on October 30, 2008 by Santi Tafarella
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On November 4 We Will Be Free

Posted on October 30, 2008 by Santi Tafarella

For eight years, the Republican party, led by George Bush, has set a mindless echo-chamber of religious stupidity and psychological hysteria around the American public—cynically playing on people’s bigotry and fears—and discouraging our hopes. But the rhetorical and media cage that far-right Republicans have constructed around our … Continue reading →

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