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Albert Einstein vs. Sarah Palin
Physicist Lawrence Krauss, as a prelude to a recent essay that he wrote for New Humanist, paired an Albert Einstein observation with a tweet from Sarah Palin, and I thought the effect was striking. Here are the quotes: “The unleashed power of the … Continue reading
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Tea-Partiers in America Take Note: Marcel Theroux’s Creepy Tea Party in Japan
Marcel Theroux is a novelist and documentary film makers for BBC 4. He does some really interesting work. Here’s a clip from his documentary on Japan (In Search of Wabi Sabi ). I suppose that the clip below depicts some Blakean … Continue reading
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Tagged Blake, documentaries, experience, innocence, Japan, marcel theroux, Michael Jackson, pedophiles, tea, tea partiers, tea party movement, teabaggers
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Why I Oppose the American Tea Party Movement
I cannot offer anything but resistance to so reactionary and ridiculous a movement. I know that there are some people in a thrall to its libertarian elements, and if that was all that was going on with the Tea Party … Continue reading
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Judge Roy Moore: Anti-Gay Bigot and a Speaker, with Sarah Palin, at the Upcoming Teabagger Convention
At the Nashville Teabagger Convention in February, Sarah Palin will be joined on stage by numerous religious authoritarians. One of them is Judge Roy Moore. The American Prospect today offers a bit of telling background on this lovely man, and it makes you … Continue reading
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Dr. Jekyll, Meet Mr. Hyde: What Can Happen To a Gentle Person Under the Spell of Nationalism, Ideology, or Religion?
Andrew Sprung, at the Daily Dish today, has written what I would regard as an exceptionally important—and even seminal—little blog post reflecting on the Iranian Revolution (“Gentle mullahs transformed”). In it, he simply offers two quotes and a bit of commentary that concisely lay out … Continue reading
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Beck Zedong!
Glenn Beck’s got a one hundred year plan (oh, shit): “We need to start thinking like the Chinese.” In other words, Glenn Beck thinks that focused, insurgent, belligerent, fanatically committed mass movement Maoism—with its disciplined cell groups, ideological purity, and relentless propaganda—is the right … Continue reading
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Prometheus Unbound 