Late Night Philosophy Owls
Been reading things and came up with an idea. If you've never read philisophical writing, you'll be bored--don't make the jump.
View ArticleWhy I am not a Republican
Wherein I accuse the modern incarnation of the GOP of being un-American at a philosophical level.
View ArticleSullivan's Mythology: Obama needs more Cowboy
Andy, Andy. You've been dreaming and droning about Obama Republicans, and they are there. But you've taken the Reagan Democrat mythology and spackled it onto the man from Illinois without...
View ArticleHysterics! Because of Kant
I really don't know a damned thing about Kant. Something about reality, duality -- maybe.
View ArticleThree Blind Idiots, Limbaugh, Newt, Delay
A daily blog in defense of liberalism and the President.
View ArticleThank you Mr. President, Eat it Mitt
A daily blog in defense of liberalism and the President.
View ArticleNewt and Sarah who's more full of it
A daily blog in defense of liberalism and the President.
View Articlewhat the iranian left is saying about the crisis
[If you have been watching closely the updates from Iran, much of what follows will not be new -- though, the last part of the diary likely will be a surprise. Regardless, hopefully you will stick...
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Education in America: Are you appalled yet? You should be.
Healthcare reform, climate change, income inequality, and anti-corporatism are issues that are very important to me, but you might say my long-term passion is educational reform. I've been doing some...
View ArticleObama and The Age of Enlightenment
Could it be that the issue of race is driving the divisiveness in our country?
View Articleon morality in politics ...
I am watching Rachel Maddow, including the clips on Rick Santorum's idiotic response first to small child asking about making medicine more affordable, then a mother of a child with cancer who noted...
View ArticleD'var Torah: Bamidbar
Torah reading: Numbers 1:1 to 4:20 Haftarah: Hosea 2:1 to 22When I volunteered for this week's Torah reading, Navy Vet Terp (the amazing Kossack who organizes this series) joked that the Numbers...
View ArticleAn unlikely road to lawlessness
Here, as in the preceding articles, it is not a question of philanthropy but of right. Hospitality means the right of a stranger not to be treated as an enemy when he arrives in the land of another....
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Work as Intrinsic Moral Good? Not So Fast
Philipp Jakob's Coalbrookdale by Night, a painting that symbolizes the birth of the Industrial RevolutionRecently, and for obvious reasons, there’s been much discussion of work and the notion of...
View ArticlePolitics: The Inherent Hierarchy
The recent debates regarding identity politics have brought me back to thinking about the substance of the work I did leading up to my dissertation before I washed out of graduate school around 2000....
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Connect! Unite! Act! Dallas, Oakland, Nashville, Valdosta & Tucson Meet-Up...
A daily series, Connect! Unite! Act! seeks to create face-to-face networks in each congressional district. Groups regularly socialize but also get out the vote, support candidates and engage in other...
View ArticleJe Suis Paris: Why We Have to Admit that Islam is the Problem
Another Dark Day and NightOn November 13 of the present year, Islamic terrorists attacked citizens, who engaged in the usual course of life in civil society, in Paris. Notably, they picked a...
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Why Black Lives DON'T Matter.
Yeah, I thought that title would get your attention. You’ve heard the politicians tell you;“Well, of course, All lives matter”. Yeah, theoretically that might be true. But reality doesn’t seem to...
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