I’m listening to multi-award winning SF author Robert J. Sawyer on the SciFiDimensions podcast (I’m on my iPhone so you’ll have to google for a link), and he’s asked why so many award winning and critically aclaimed SF writers come out of Canada and the U.K. His answer: socialized health care. There’s an addage that [...]
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Easter, deconstructed.
If you’re someone who believes in the holiness of Easter, you don’t want to read something that critiques the holiday this weekend–don’t; it’ll be a buzzkill. But, if you are interested in looking at the story of Easter with an open mind, interested in its reasons and rationale, and don’t mind looking at the story [...]
READ MORE »Spending our future.
(OK, last post for tonight…) I have a love/hate relationship with the blog “Classically Liberal“. I couldn’t agree more with his analysis on the failed War on Drugs, the criticisms of institutional education, his disgust for the encroaching police state, police abuse of power, face-palming frustration at the destructive and absolutely absurd criminalization of sexuality, [...]
READ MORE »Marx was right.
(OK, only a couple more of blog posts in this surge.) BoingBoing has an article: “Marx was right!” in which the author discusses his move from being a dot-com capitalist to a return to a respect for Marx’s criticism of capitalism. (His wife, who said of his return to Marxist studies that it’s “worse than [...]
READ MORE »Can they GET any more pathetic, in both senses of the word?
Continuing my surge of quick, browser-tab cleaning posts…. (and thesis work procrastinating…) BoingBoing (yeah, love that site…too bad I’m still banned) recently posted an article about this video: Fake People Tell Fake Stories About The Threat Of Gay Marriage Seriously? Get a load of how over-wrought and concerned these actors (yes, actors) are in their [...]
READ MORE »Nothing to fear but…each other?
My apologies in advance: I think I’m going to be posting a few (hopefully not too long) blogs in succession to try to make up for the fact that I can’t blog from work any more, and school work (and the desire to not be on a computer after a day of work) after coming [...]
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