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Monthly Archives: August 2015
Franz Kafka On Reading Out Of One’s Comfort Zone
Below is a quote from Franz Kafka on the value of actively seeking out disconfirming evidence, counter-life perspectives, and counter-arguments contrary to your own beliefs, proclivities, and biases. A nice retort to the squeamish who won’t read books that “trigger” … Continue reading
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A Europeanized Republican Party: Is Donald Trump America’s Jean Le Pen?
The below quote startled me. It comes from a conservative writer who locates the signal in the noise as to what Donald Trump really means for American politics: the Europeanization of the Republican Party. In other words, Trump is riding … Continue reading
Build a Wall: Rush Limbaugh and Donald Trump’s Alternative To The Demographic Californication Of America
This recent quote from Rush Limbaugh surprised me: If you want to find the future of the Republican Party and the country, look at California. There isn’t a single Republican in statewide office. There never will be in the future. … Continue reading
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Tagged California, donald trump, immigration, Republican party, rush limbaugh
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Memo To Democrats: Thomas Jefferson Is Not The Confederate Flag
Thomas Jefferson is a Southerner, but he is not the Confederate Flag. I understand why the contemporary Democratic Party would backbench the two white males (Jackson and Jefferson) who founded the Democratic Party, but I still love Jefferson. His words sing. … Continue reading
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Tagged America, enlightenment, feminism, gay equality, racism, slavery, Thomas Jefferson, women's rights
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Marco Rubio: “The Constitution of the United States” Forces Women to Bring to Term Rape and Incest Conceived Fetuses
Marco Rubio thinks “The Constitution of the United States” necessarily forces women to bring to term fetuses conceived against their will by rape and incest. Wow. He really fucked himself here. Fox News Megyn Kelly Grills Marco Rubio On Rape, … Continue reading
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Tagged abortion, America, Constitution, feminism, Marco Rubio, Republicans, women's equality
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Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood Increasingly Repudiates Nonviolence
The Muslim Brotherhood is every bit as dangerous for Egypt as the Nazis were for Germany. And recall that Egypt, like Germany in the 1930s, has a vulnerable minority, readily susceptible to terrorist violence (in Egypt’s case, Coptic Christians make … Continue reading
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Tagged Christianity, coptic, Egypt, immigration, Islam, muslim brotherhood, nazis
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Marco Rubio Is Not Outraged “Over A Dead Lion”
Marco Rubio signals that he’s anti-environmentalist and anti-feminist in the same (poorly worded and incorrectly punctuated) tweet: “Look at all this outrage over a dead lion, but where is all the outrage over the planned parenthood dead babies.” Rubio Tweet … Continue reading
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Tagged ecology, environmentalism, feminism, lions, Marco Rubio, Politics
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Prometheus Unbound 