Today I just received my 11th A out of 11 grad school classes. *glee!* Now, I’ve NEVER been one to care much about grades (I graduated 40th out of 88 in high school, and while I did earn a 3.8+ in my undergrad theatre major, everything else was sucky enough to get me a total [...]
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“Canadian Perspectives 2009: The Failure of Capitalism and the Need for a Socialist Alternative”
Facebook readers: this post came from my official blog; the auto-transfer to FB tends to strip any embedded images.) This will be a quick post by me; I can discuss my thoughts on this at great length, but I think it’s more important that one just simply read this fantastic article: Canadian Perspectives 2009: The [...]
READ MORE »Be Prepared…for fascism.
Facebook readers: this post came from my official blog; the auto-transfer to FB tends to strip any embedded images.) Now that Democrat Obama (corporatist) is president, and Democrats control Congress (corporatists and oligarchs); just because the overtly fascist, corporatist, imperialistic, evil Bush regime is gone, doesn’t mean the threat of USSA, Amerika, is over. “The [...]
READ MORE »Watchmen; better for the geek failure.
First, I have to say that now that the semester’s over, I’m going to need to start blogging more to clear out my backlog of topics. I can’t use my work PC for anything non-work related, so every once in a while I check my collection of RSS feeds on my iPhone and Instapaper it [...]
READ MORE »SF writer Kim Stanley Robinson on social responsibility.
Last week, on Earth Day, during my university’s day-long thingie on “social development” and environmental concerns, SF author Kim Stanley Robinson spoke for a bit on social responsibility for humanity’s future. He said some great things, I took notes, he signed a book of mine and we had a very brief conversation. Here’s a summary [...]
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